Photoshop Elements - Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 for Photographers - page 35

Other options for getting your photos into Elements
Although my recommendation is that you always import and organize your pictures via the
Organizer and Get Photos features, there will be times when you need to access existing files,
or even newly photographed images, whilst in one of the Elements editor modes - Quick Fix or
Full Edit. The follow options give you just this type of access.

Selecting File > Open dis-
plays the standard Win-
dows Open dialog. (1) You
can alter the range of files
displayed by selecting the
specific file format to
show.

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Editor: File > Open
Selecting File > Open presents you with the standard Windows file browser or Mac Finder
window. From here you can navigate from drive to drive on your machine before locating and
opening the folder that contains your pictures. You can refine the display options by selecting
the specific file type (file ending) to be displayed and as we have already noted you can also
choose the way to view the files. In the example here the thumbnail view was selected so that it
is possible to quickly flick through a folder full of pictures to locate the specific image that you are
after.

Editor: File > Open As (Win)
On the odd occasion that a specific file won't open using the File > Open command you can try
to open the file in a different format. Do this by selecting the File > Open As option and then
choosing the file you want to open. After making this selection pick the desired format from the
Open As pop-up menu, and click the Open button. This action forces the program to ignore the
file format it has assumed the picture is saved in and treat the image as if it is saved as the new
file type. If the picture still refuses to open, then you may have selected a format that does not
match the file's true format, or the file
itself may have been damaged when
being saved.

With the File > Open As
command you can force
the Elements program to
open image files in specif-
ic file formats. After
choosing File > Open As
select the image to be
opened (1) and then pick
the file format to be used
for the action (2).

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This feature is also used for open files
where the extension is unknown. This
is particularly useful if a picture is
saved on a Macintosh machine without
a file extension and then transferred
to a computer running the Windows
operating system which requires a file
extension to open it.

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