Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how simple photo editing can be. In so many examples, all that's needed is the click of the mouse to bring about a radical tone or color change. And, of course, being such a mature application, Photoshop Elements provides not one but several possible solutions for your creative requirements.

You will also now appreciate that the first technique is not necessarily always the best solution—inevitably there are three or four other ways of achieving a similar result and it's up to you to choose the one that works best for your style.

One thing that I have found after years of teaching is that photographers tend to choose a certain tool or editing technique not so much because it's deemed to be 'the best' but more often because they can do it using the mouse, or they can do it using a keyboard shortcut—or because it was the first thing they tried and they prefer to stick with 'what works'. I never...