Saturation, for example, is gray at the left end and gradually intensifies to something like phosphorescent slime on the right. Hue, too, shows a rainbow of options.
There's also an Auto button on each palette, but it's really more fun to play. In fact, we took an image with an almost monotone blue color cast, clicked on Smart Fix to get something that resembled a bad print, decreased the Saturation and shifted the Hue from magenta to orange to get a perfectly corrected image in only three clicks.
The Standard Edit interface, with all the bells and whistles, has been improved immensely with the elimination of the old, cramped Tool Well in favor of a set of tabbed palettes that line the right side of the screen. With a click, you can collapse a palette, regaining screen space. You used to have to dig around in the crammed Well to find the Filters tab, the Effects tab and the Layers tab.
Now all three are combined in one palette using a popup menu. That makes a lot more sense. We were very happy to see the Help text field is still prominently displayed. Help has always been one of the best things about Elements. The new Reduce Noise filter has three settings to play with. But even more helpful is its live preview showing you the effect of your settings. Click in the preview and you can also make a quick comparison with the original. This is an important addition, actually.
As Dave points out in camera review after camera review, the more pixels that are packed into small sensors, the noisier your images are at sensitivities above ISO ISO , he often complains, is unusable for just that reason. Generally speaking, the bigger the sensor, the better the image. Smaller sensors on prosumer digicams cram in as many sensors as they can to offer resolutions competitive with dSLRs but at the expense of increasing noise.
Results from the plug-in were pleasing if not thorough. The noise problem is really a bit more complex than it might seem. Take a look at our review of Dfine in the Aug. Previously to remove redeye, you selected a brush and painted it away.
Now you use a tool and either click on the redeye or drag a selection around it. You can adjust the pupil size and the amount to darken, both by percent. This is a small change but a welcome one for its improved usability.
The same might be said of the two healing brushes, one to touch up spots and the other to repair larger areas. Healing brushes resemble the Clone tool, but they're a bit more sophisticated, tapping into the processing power of today's more powerful systems to not clone some aspects of an image. Think of it as being able to paint tone, color and texture without cloning detail from a similar part of the image. The healing brushes are a more usable clone tool. Any image editing software worth its Save command offers layers but we doubt many people are comfortable applying an adjustment layer or picking a layer mode.
Fortunately Elements isn't shy about doing that for you. Click on an Effect and watch Elements go to work. As it does, it tells you what it's doing and you can watch the layers build as it does. It can actually be fun to watch. But the new Cookie Cutter tool is actually fun to use. You select a shape, of which there are many in categories from Animals to Tiles.
Then you can set its options, which include drawing just by dragging the unconstrained shape, or in the proportions it was defined with, at the defined size or a fixed size. A checkbox determines if the shape is drawn from the center or the top left. But wait! Just one button allows you to change instrument sound from pure acoustic to hybrid and synthetic sound.
Samples mixing with the original sound source are specific for every patch. Virtual stage makes it easy to arrange instruments used in the mix. Just one mouse movement allows you to move the toms closer to the listener or remove high percussion to the far corner of the stage.
Also, distance and panorama parameters can be automatized, what can be useful for trailer music composing. For example, the drama effect could be strengthen by reducing the distance. Built-in rhythm loops make it faster to outline the rhythm section of your tracks without being distracted from the main idea.
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