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Guided Edit Mode

Let's go ahead and try over two guided edit mode. Now you'll notice when I clicked, guided and again we're under the edit workspace over here. Click guided on the right hand side. Even more of our tools disappeared from the left. And now over here on the right hand side, we have a Siris of tasks. Really? So this is the mode in which elements really sticks a teacher right beside you. So you tell it what you want to do, and it's gonna walk you through it step by step by step. Now, we're going to go through a couple of these I've chosen to that are really gonna show you how a simplistic the steps can be. And I've chosen one that you will not believe how many steps it takes, but pointing the elements is happy to walk you through it, no matter how complicated or simplistic the technique is. So Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and switch to another image here. Michael didn't close that one. Okay, so here's an image that needs quite a bit of help, and I will go ahead and say, as a disclaimer that I t...

aught for a week in Portugal last year and my husband and I went to the Port Wine Tasting Institute. Now that might be why this images cricket? I don't know. It might have a little something to do with it. I'm just kidding. I actually made it cricket, so I'd have something to straighten. So let's just take a peek at all the different things this image needs. First of all, it is cricket. Second of all, it should not be yellow. It's got a really nasty color cast going on here is probably taken under fluorescent lighting or some kind of wild lining combination. But I know that it was not yellow. So we're gonna fix that. We're gonna straighten it, crop it, fix its color and then the last thing we're gonna do is we're gonna give it an aged or vintage antique look. OK, which is also a great way to Salvant Salvage the color lighting in an image. If you can't fix it, then applying an artistic color treatment can save the subject matter. Okay, so here we are in guided mode. And first off, I want to share with you one of my favorite things about elements. That photo shop CS Insert your own number here has never been able to do and still can't do to this day, and that is to show you a before and after in the same document as you're doing the changes. It's really amazing. So the way you find that is in guided edit mode, let me zoom in here. You're going to see a little pop up menu at the bottom left of your workspace, and it's gonna have the word view next to it and the pop that many will let you choose between all these different before and after views. So, depending upon the orientation of your photo, whether it's portrait or landscape, one of these will work better for you. Let's go ahead and choose horizontal and I'll see you back out so we can see. There we go. So now I can see how much of an impact my changes air, having as I'm applying them, which is really great, because sometimes if you're just looking at the after image, it's hard to remember exactly how far you've come in order to stop. Okay, so we decided that this photo needed to be straightened, so let's cruise over here to the right, and under basic photo edits, you're going to see the 3rd 1 down. It's called Rotate in or Straightened photo. So let's go ahead and give this a single click. One tiny word on single clicking versus double clicking. There's a heck of a lot of elements that wants a single click. Okay, so just kind of keep that in mind all of these different tasks over here and guided edit mode. Those are single clicks. When we get back in full edit mode, most of the panels on the right hand side require a single clicks. Just you know, some people get in trouble with that, cause they habitually double click before they think about it. So going in single click and immediately elements goes and finds the in this case rotate and or straighten tool from wherever that lived in the menu system. Me, it could have been buried three menus D, but it could have been nested in a tool set. But no matter where it is, elements goes and finds it and sticks and on the right hand side of the screen for you, and tells you how to use the darn thing, which is extremely handy. So in this case, since this task was for rotating or straightening, we have two tools to choose from the rotate tool or these straighten tool. So in this case, we want to straighten tool. So I'm gonna give this tool a click. And as I click it, you'll see that it looks like it's pressed in, shaded on the icon, that lets you know that it's activated with most of these guided tasks, you won't even have to do that much. But this one, since it has to tools to choose from, you have to tell elements which one you want to do. So the next thing we can do is our little instructions here telling us, click the tool below. Okay, we did that. Now what you want to do is mouse over to the image and you want to draw a line across what really should be straight. So let us say that I'm actually gonna scroll down a little bit. Let's say that this label on that glass really should be straight. So I'm going Teoh, click and hold down my mouse button and then I'm gonna drag a line across what really should be straight now when I release my mouse button elements is gonna look at the angle of that line, and that's how much it's gonna rotate the image to make it straight. It's really just rotating. It is all, but you're giving it the precise angle of the rotation. So release my mouse button. There we go. Now the images is straight. Now the only problem here is that we've got all this blank space. This checkerboard pattern is elements way of telling you. Hey, there's nothing here. There are new pixels in this area. It's empty space. Okay, so we may choose to crop that out here in a minute. But I'm gonna go ahead and click the reset button just to show you how easy it is to go back to the previous state of the image. That's another thing I love about elements. There's always these opportunities to reset or undo Revert to your original on that kind of thing. So if we click reset, let's say you didn't like uh the angle or wasn't straighten properly. Then you could click reset in. The image goes right back to exactly like it. Waas Okay, so we'll go ahead and do that again. So I'm just clicking, holding down my mouse button and dragging across what really should be straight. And then you're not going to see anything happen until you release that mouse button and then Elements is gonna go ahead and reply that angle of rotation to your image. So let's say we're done with that one. So let's go ahead and tell elements that were actually done. So the way you get out of a task is to cruise on down to the bottom and you can click the done button. Another way to get out of that. If you decided you do not want Teoh, apply that straightening as you could click the cancel button. That would take you out of that task and back to the list of tasks So we'll go ahead and do that. Okay, so here we are, back in our list. Well, now we want to get rid of that extra space there, so let's go ahead and crop. This photo saw single click on crop photo and again elements goes and hunts down the crop tool from wherever it lives. This one actually lived in the tools panel in full, and it moves and it tells you how to use it. And in the crop tool instance, it actually takes a bounding box. That's what this guy is right here. Looks like marching ants. And that's a crop box or a bounding box. You're going to see this a lot in elements specially when we get into re sizing layers independently of other layers, same little bounding box. These guys, these little hollow squares that you see around the corners and over here, if you mouse over them, your cursor turns into a double sided arrow. So that's the way you can change the shape of the crop box back out. And if you want to move the crop box around on top of the photo, you just click and drag inside of it. And while you're holding down your mouse button, you can move it around so you can position it. So for this photo, I want to keep it as big as I possibly can, so I'm gonna zoom out a little bit so I can actually see all four edges of the photo, and I'm gonna do that by using a keyboard shortcut. That's a really good one for you all to memorize. If you're on a Macintosh command minus, we'll zoom out command. Plus we'll zoom in if you're on a PC, that's control minus two. Seam out Control Plus to zoom in. So now I can see my whole photo. You can also use Zoom, slider or feel down here towards the bottom right of the guided it workspace To change your zoom level. You can just click and drag that little slider around. There's always about six different ways to do the same darn thing in elements. So just picked the way that you like the best. There's no right or wrong that. So I'm gonna go ahead and drag the corner, handles out as far as I can to get Aziz much of my photo without any of that extra space. Okay, then I can position my crop box exactly where I want it. Once I get it all set up, I can accept this crop in myriad different ways to, of course, you can click the little green check mark that's beneath the crop box to accept it. And likewise, if you want to cancel it you can click the little circle with a slash icon. There, you can also double click within the crop box that will apply that crop. Or you can press return or the in turkey to apply that as well. Okay, if you want a bail out of a crop like I said, you can click that little slash circle or you compress the escape key and that will get rid of the Dropbox altogether. Now let us say that we wanted to crop this photo to specific size. Let's say this was a really fabulous photo, and you've got the perfect, you know, five by seven frame. You want a plop it into. You want to make sure that sucker size right before you print it. Papers. Expensive inks even more expensive so you can tell elements what size you want. Teoh end up with by using this crop box pop up menu right here. So if you know in advance you want toe, crop it to certain size, then you can dial that in right here, and you can use a little scroll bar to go down and elements is included. Some of the most frequently used measurements in there. OK, so now let's say if I choose four by six, back out. Now, when I click in drag, see how my my box is kind of being constricted to a certain aspect ratio, Really? So it will restrict your crop box to exactly that size, But in this situation, I don't care. So I'm gonna go ahead press escape. I'm gonna set my crop box size back, Teoh no restriction. And go ahead and crop out the rest of that transparent space. There we go. We'll call that good enough, and I'm gonna go ahead and press return to accept my crop. So now we can see that we've straightened up our image and we've cocked it. So it started Look better. But we've still got that nasty yellow color cast that we need to deal with. So let's go fix that. Next since I'm finished with the cropping, we compress the done button at the bottom right, and we'll go back to our list of tasks. Now it's cruise on down this list and see if we can figure out the one that might work to fix our color situation here. Well, the very next category of guided edits and elements are the folks that w did a good job separating these categories out to help you find what you're after lighting and exposure. I don't really want a lot in your dark in my image jets the colors that I have the issue with. So this stuff really isn't gonna work with me work for me in this situation. So if I cruise on down to the color correction part, that sounds a little bit more like what I am might need to do, Do I want to enhance the colors? Well, if they were correct, I might want to enhance them, but they're not correct yet. So the next one that we see here is called Remove A color cast that looks like it might do what we need to get done here. So I'll go ahead and give that a single click. And once again, elements goes and finds that tool from wherever it lived. And I'll tell you, this sucker is buried. E. I did not know for a long time when I was using this program. Before I started teaching. I didn't know that it even had a color cut cast eyedropper so guided Edit mode is a great way to discover what the program conduce. If you're new to the program, it's a great way to find out what kind of tools and features that it has, you know. So don't don't stay out of guided edit mood because you feel like you know you're a pro. It's also a great way to see what changed a little bit from version to version. See if there's new tools in there, so it taught me something that's for certain. So here is our color caste tool, and with this one, just zoom in. You can see it. This one is telling us to click on any part of the image that really should be pure gray, white or black. And with that information, Elements is going to be able to adjust the other colors According to what you tell it really should be white, black or grey. So that's what we're going to do now because this task only had one tool in it. See how the tool is already. Looks like it's Preston is shaded a little bit. There's no need to click it to activate it. Okay, it's already active So what we want to do is simply mouse over to our image will zoom in a little bit again with my keyboard Shortcuts command Plus Remind us on a Mac or control plus or minus on a PC. So what we want to do is click on an area in the sin is that should be white, black or grey. Well, elements a smart. You don't even have to tell it which color you're about to click on. Because if you click on a light colored pixel that assumes you're telling it. Oh, that really should be white. He click on something dark. It's assuming that, Oh, she's telling me what really should be black in the image. So I'll just single click on this plate because the plate really was white and with a single click that now looks like what I saw when I was shooting the image snuggled up there in the Port Wine Institute. So what's what happens if you don't like your first professional color caste? I drop her click Well, then you can keep clicking around on the image until it looks good to you. And again this stuff is subjective. There is no right or wrong place to click. It's You want the photo lit like you think it should look because you're the photographer. You were the one that was there and hopefully should know what it what it would look like. So you could just keep clicking around until you get the color right? And then you can click done. But here, you can really see how valuable having that before and after is because picture look pretty crappy over there on the left hand side. Now is looking for you. Good. Any questions on on that part? I'm gonna grab a drink of water here real quick. All right. So we got our straightened up with better cropped, and the color cast has been eradicated. We do have a few questions on the Internet, if that is all right. So question from Mary in G A. Is, does the crop tool desert crop does the crop tool crop to the actual inches in the box for size or just to the aspect ratio? Are you re sizing image by using the crop tool? It crops to the actual dimensions. If you're using that that restriction Yeah, crops of the actual inverse is just the my five the dimensions or the the aspect ratio? No, it crops of that size. All right? Yeah. There were quite a few questions about cropping that came up. Um, another question that came up. Waas. How do you change the orientation of the bounding box from six with by four. Height to four with by six. Oh, that's a good question. Usually you can keep dragging. And if you drag wider van, the actual image itself, then elements the crop box kind of knows. Oh, she wants us to be lance picked, you know, landscape aspect ratio instead of portrait. So usually you just keep dragging it out, make it bigger. I'm gonna show you another way to crop that is a little bit easier to have more control over when we pop into full edit mode. We're gonna look at using the rial crop tool where you can actually use the options bar to dial in specific measurements. And it's got a little double sided arrow where you can flip flop the measurements. So from a five by seven to a seven by five, it's a little bit easier to do that over in full edit move than it is in the guided edit mode. So we'll look at that when we get only get over there. Great. Another quick clarification question from try and in the chat room is the guided mode actually telling you where you can find a tool in the full edit mode? So is it telling you that No work. Okay? Just telling you what's possible. Not words. That would be good. No, no. Just goes and finds it and plops it down the right hand side. It doesn't tell you where to find it, but you know, one of the menu system, you'll find him. But the color caste eyedropper is buried nicely. One more cropping question here. The last one was from J. C and P V. This one is from Vaz. Ooh, Does the crop have the rule of third option? No, it does not. Okay, it does not. Maybe we'll see that elements 10 because the program was ago. Snatch it out of photo shop CS five, put it in elements stand. Thanks. Okay, so we'll say I'm done with the color caste correction. Now what we've been working with and guided edit mode are really simple techniques. Okay, I want to show you a really complicated one to give you an idea of the range that elements is happy to step three. So we're going to cruise on down our list of guided, and it's here and you can see there's a slew of him. And actually, we got several new ones in elements nine that we did not have an element eight, and that's all these fun edits down here, and we won't walk through those. But I've got a couple of examples of the ones that I may cause they take a long time to create some of them, but they're really, really needs someone to show those to you. So we're gonna look at I promised you an antique effect. So we're gonna take a look that under the photographic effects category, let's give old fashioned photo a single click, and we're going to see exactly how complicated this one is. So first off elements is showing you what you're going to create its saying that this may look like your original image, but once we get finished with it, it's gonna look more like this. So ah, several step process. We're going to drain the color from the image. We're gonna add a bit of digital noise to it to make it look old. And then we're gonna add a color cast, too. So in this case, the color caste is brown brown 40 20 graphic designers will call it C B. A fancy way of saying brown Brown. Okay, so one thing about these more complicated guided steps that really tripped me up when I first started using this program is it's a little confusing the way the instructions were written out in that Thies This instructions, these instructions right here have to do with this area. It's like the instructions come right before the button instead of afterwards. So let me describe is on down here. See, this is a good example right here. All of this text right here applies to this instead of this applying to that, Do you see what I mean? It's like it's backwards to me and that really tripped me up. So just be aware of that. That the text before the numbered step, that's what goes with it, not the text after the numbered step. It's a little bit convoluted Okay, so we're going to start out illnesses telling us to first convert our image to black and white, using these presets that it has so handily put down here for you. So as you click each one of these buttons, you're going to get a slightly different level of contrast applied to your image. So well, let's go through those. So I'll click Newspaper and Elements is gonna toss the color out of my image. So that's one level of contrast for your black and white. If I click urban snapshots, it's going to go through and give me a slightly different level of contrast. So again, no right or wrong with this, just whichever one looks good to you. I kind of like vivid landscapes. It makes the bright areas a little bit brighter in the dark area, a little bit darker, so we're finished with that. So now we're going to come down here, and it's telling us to adjust the tone ality, and that's all that's gonna do is make our darks a little darker and our lights a little bit lighter to give us a little bit more contrast. So I'll go ahead and click that, and now we're cruising on down, and it really does give you a lot of information about what's happening in this technique, and that's all good. Get stuff for you to know. Now we're to the point where we want to add texture. See again here. This is the stuff. This is the text that applies to texture, so this texture button is cumulative, so you can click it several times, and elements will add a whole another batch of texture to your image or noise. Rather, that's all that's happening. So I'm gonna click it a couple times so you can see the difference. Now if you let's say I click it one more time, and that's way too much texture. You came back out of that. You can use Thea Undo button appear that kind of the right area of your interface. You can click that undo button, and that will undo the specific levels of texture. See how they disappeared one by one. So don't worry about it. If you add too much because you can always use the undo button to back out of those, you don't have to start the whole technique over again. and the words again. For those who are fans of keyboard shortcuts like me, Command Z on a Mac is your undo command or control Z on a PC. Okay, so let's say the texture looks good. So now the last thing you want to do here and again this block of text applies Teoh this step, we're gonna adjust the hue and saturation. And Hughes, just another fancy way of saying pure color. So when you see Hugh, think of colors that allows you to change the color. So we're going to give this, but in a click and Elements is gonna summon the hue saturation dialogue box. And this is a fun dialogue box that lets you do all kinds of fun things that we're going to explore later when we get into full edit mode and I'm gonna go ahead and move it out of the way because it's cover enough are after image here. So I just said that he could think of is another word for color. If you drag the huge slider around, you will change the color caste that's being applied to the image. So you're not stuck with brown if you don't want the brown. But for a good vintage or antique look, CP attend is a good way to go. But let us say that you wanted to apply a blue tent. For whatever reason, you could click and drag this you slider and see the color changing on the image as I drag it over to the to the right. I happen to love the way a subtle dose of blue looks on a black and white image. Think it makes it look really rich and with more depth so you can experiment with this to change how to change the vibrancy of the color. You can drag the saturation to the right to make it more vibrant to the left to make it less vibrant. If you drag to farther left, all your color will drain out, called de saturating your image so you don't want to drive that too far left. And then, if you want to change the lightness of the color tint that you're adding, you can grab the lightness slider, drag it to the left or to the right, rather to lighten it, drag it to the left darknet. So between those three sliders, you can apply any kind of color cast. You want to the image. We'll go ahead and go back more towards the the brown side of life. And when you get finished, just click. OK, and that's absolutely and again. If you decide you didn't like all those different things that you did to your image, you could come down here at the bottom and click Theresa and start over inside of that one guided at a task. Or you could click, cancel and that'll back out of the whole mess and take you back to the list of guided edits where if you decided you'd like it, you can go ahead and click the done button and move on and do something else. So that's a good opportunity here to talk about saving our image. Let's say that we really love this effect, and we want to keep it around, Okay, so we'll go ahead and click. Done now. We talked about J pegs the danger of opening a J peg from your digital camera editing and saving it as a J pig. How it goes, your photo falls down the stair step of quality there, so what we want to do since we've started editing. This thing is we want to get into a native photo shop for man. OK, so we're gonna do that choosing file save as so try it up to the file menu she saved as because save as gives you a naming opportunity and it also gives you an opportunity to change the file format. OK, actually, anytime you see a menu command within a lips to the right of it, the dot, dot dot that is gonna make you have a conversation with elements. And that's why dialogue boxes recalled dialogue boxes because elements is asking me a question. You're giving it feedback, so it needs to have a dialogue, a conversation with you. OK, so we're going to save as using back out and elements is asking me if I want to use its database, which is called the organizer, and I don't. So I'm gonna get rid of that little box. So here's our save as dialog box all kinds of things going on here. First of all, if yours isn't expanded, if you don't see all these format options here, then you need to click this little button to the right. Okay. So you can see more options here. So element is asking you Where the heck do you want to put the file? You know, uh, just a little tip on that. When I import photos, I import them into a folder that may carry the city name or the event name. So say, like when I get back home a import my photos into a Seattle folder, OK? And within that Seattle folder, I will have another folder called In Process. Maybe it's called editing or edits or something like that. So it's another folder inside my picture folder from the event that I keep my PSD files, my Photoshopped document files, OK, because I won't go in and edit all of them. I only, you know, go in and edit a few of them. So that's how I organize them. But for this one, let's just go ahead and put this on the desktop. And the important thing here is that, of course, you choose Photoshopped from the format, poppet menu. Okay, you want to make sure that photo shop is activated that's going to save this file as a native elements document that has no compression so it's full quality. And once we do get into using full edit mood where we're going to start using something called layers, the photo shop format will keep all of your layers intact. Okay, that's gonna be very, very important. Okay, so we could give this one any any name we wanted. We call it Vintage Porto and Click Save. And now we can open that file a year from now or 10 years from now if elements still around. And, um, your photo still would be the exact same quality that it is right there, so you won't lose anything now. If I wanted to email it to somebody, I could save it out as a J. Pickens. J pig we talked about earlier is a friendly format for email, and because of the in compression, it makes a nice small file. Okay, so if you want to do that, you could choose file Safer Web and elements will give you a preview of what different compression levels will look like before you actually save the image. So let's take a peek at that real quick. So here's our safer web dialog box boy, you can really see that texture elements added. While we're here in the safe for Web dialog box, you can use your zoom controls, your keyboard shortcuts so we could press command minus or control minus on a pc to zoom out of the image to see the whole thing while we're here. And I could over here on the right hand side, choose to save it as a J pig. And when I do that, I get these other controls here that let me lock in the quality of the JPEG so you can choose between a maximum quality very high, high, medium low. Okay, So elements will also tell you the file size of the image per the compression level that you choose. So, for example, by default elements is choosing a J pic of high quality. And I can see them here at the bottom of the image that my resulting image will now be 1.3 megabytes instead of the original, which was 13.8 megabytes. Okay, so you can actually see what size file you're gonna end up with. This kind of thing becomes really important if you're designing Web banner ads or even Web tile as in your restricted to getting those suckers to be a certain size. Then you can do the little dance between quality and final size. Here in the file. Safer Web dialogue. See, as I go down to medium now, my J peg is 650 k And if I go down to Low, which the picture will look really terrible 278 k so you can see how the sizing is changing. He can also change the pixel dimensions of your image right here. So let's say, for example, I wanted to email this. Let's say I'm gonna send it to my mom in the piney woods of these Texas whom I know has a satellite Internet connection, which is slower than broadband. Okay, so I don't want to send her a big honkin file. She will fess it. Me. Okay, why did you send me that five make a bad file Took me on that to download it. So let's say I'm gonna choose high quality and if I haven't made it smaller back when we were in our editing environment, I could do that here. Let's say that I know that a nice size for of for email. Photo is 800 pixels by 600 pixels. I can tell that in right here and then when it saves the J peg, I will get the smaller version. But my original will not change. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and type in 800. And if you've got this little chain link turned on over here which it is on by default than elements is gonna put in if you enter one dimension, it's gonna change the other one for you to keep the aspect ratio of your image. Well, let's say you don't know what pixel size you want. I'll go ahead and say You can change it by percent. Let's say, Oh, I want to send you know, 50% of my original image or 25% of the original image. So six and one in half dozen in the other. And then you can click, apply, and the re sizing happens. And now when you click OK, to save out that J pig, you've not only changed file format, but you've changed the size. So it's email, family as well. So you could do that. All right, so we're ready to pop into guided edit mode. A quick edit mode now where the any of the questions on Guided at motor Any of the things that we talked about Yeller already for the test afterward. Open book, right? It'll be a pop quiz. You have some questions from the Internet, as we always do. Um, a question from a Dia is what is the difference between saturation and lightness? Aren't they both changing capacity of the color slash Hugh So saturation? You think of that as color intensity, my color vibrancy. Kind of like you know how we hold a can of spray paint. And if you keep the sprayer head down and you keep spraying over the same spot that you lay down more of that color, it becomes brighter, brighter, brighter, brighter, brighter, more intense that you can think of that a saturation. So it's color, intensity and lightness. Value is just how light or how dark the the pixels are. So color intensity versus just, you know, being able to change a photo to be more towards black, darker, more towards white lighter. So that would be the difference. Any other questions? Do you mind if we ask a few questions that kind of go over what we've gone through so far. Okay? And there people from all levels are watching so everybody just be patient with everybody else. Naveen had asked his j peg degrade the quality when color correcting Does Jay peg degrade quality quality when color correcting The only time you lose quality with J. Peg is at the moment you save it as a JPEG. So if you open up a J peg from your digital camera, I mean it doesn't. Nothing different is gonna happen when your color correcting your changing lighting. You know that the the only quality loss comes when you save that J peg as another J pig, which there was another question from foghorn is the same destructive. That kind of answers that question. I'm sorry. There was a question from foghorn in the chat room that said is the same destructive. So you're kind of answering is a save destructive? No, it depends on what file format. If you say it is a native Photoshopped document, then you don't lose any quality at all. Okay, But J P D J peg, you sure dio have a couple questions about when you were going over the undue on dso creative had asked Does the undue Onley go so many times? And then Foghorn Leghorn had also asked Does the control all see allow the multiple back steps as it does in Photoshopped? Yes, yes, absolutely. It does. Yeah, So you can. That's a great question. How many levels of undo do you have? You can control that in elements preferences. So on a Mac you could go to the photo Shop Elements menu on a PC. You'd go to the edit menu, I believe, and you can choose preferences. And there is a way to determine how Maney history states that elements will remember. And I believe there it is. So its under performance. So when she opened the preferences Dialog, click the performance over there on the left hand side. And over here in history, you can see that you're allowed 50 levels of undo. Okay, so that's where you can actually change that. Another question from pukey P. When you make these changes, are you able to go back to the original and re edit? If you already did save as yeah, absolutely. That's a great question. So let's say we've been making a whole bunch of changes to this photo and we choose file Save as not only we were gonna save this file is a photo shop document. We could also give it another name, but just the act of saving it as a Photoshopped document, even if you kept it the same name from your camera, even if it was DSC underscore nine or nine or 135 or whatever the heck it was, just the act of giving a different format will mean that your original still lives. It's not saving over it because it has a different extension, you know. But if you're worried about that, you could certainly give it another name. That's why I was telling you all how when I import on my pictures from Seattle into the Seattle folder inside of that folder, I've got a folder called In Process, and that's where all my PSD files my edits that are in progress for those files. So with that system, I don't ever have to worry about saving over. Even if I did say, you know, lose my mind and save it is a J peg over the original because I'm saving in a different folder. I would still have the original. But another thing that I do is when I'm importing my pictures, I offload them to an external drive as well. So I've always got another level of backup going on, so you know, to get back to your original image. But if you change the format to photo shop, you won't save over the original great Thank you Kentucky. Ted had asked back a couple more questions from cropping. Uh, what did go full canvas mean in the crop cropping mode? What did full camels game? That's a darn good question. I believe that would only put ah gushing on. Not really sure I've never used it. We can pop over there and see, but with full canvas do. Maybe he's talking about photo a shoe. Maybe you're not real sure. So if we if we select use photo ratio in the crop box size drop down menu that is going to restrict the size of the crop box to be the same aspect ratio as the original photo, it's the same relationship between heightened with so because you know when you're cropping you could you could do a really funky crop. You know, that is not the same aspect. Ratio is the original photo at all. But if I turn on use photo ratio, see how it popped back? Tiu. So it's going to keep the relationship between with and high on the crop, so that may be what he was talking about. But we have a 1,000,000 questions, but we'll just ask one more and then we'll let you. Okay? Okay. Um, Gumby 23 Hadash, Should you upload all the photos in a group into the organizer prior to beginning the editing process? You don't have to use the organizer at all. So, as I said earlier, Elements has a database component that is the organizer, so it will actually import your photos, and it will keep up with where they are on your hard drive. I don't use the organizer at all. So if you are using the database part of elements, then you want to be very careful where you don't want to change the location of where you're saving your images because the database likes you too. Once was, the database knows where they are. It wants to keep them in that place. So that's why I don't use that