Below Photoshop Elements' menu bar is the shortcut bar. The shortcut bar provides buttons for accessing some of the most frequently used commands and features in Photoshop Elements. If you hold your mouse over each of the buttons on the shortcut bar, a pop-up "tool tip" will appear showing the function of the button. Some of these tool tips have blue underlined text to indicate a link. When you click these links, they will open the Photoshop Elements Help page for the particular function.
From left to right, the shortcut bar buttons are:
- New - opens a new, empty document.
- Open - browse your computer folders for a file to open
- Save - saves the active document
- Print - opens the print preview dialog
- Email - launches the Organizer component, and then opens the Attach to E-mail dialog.
- Undo - step backward through any actions you have performed.
- Redo - step forward through any actions you have undone. Only available after undo has been used.
- Create - launches the Organizer and opens the Creation Setup wizard.
- Photo Browser - launches the Organizer component of Photoshop Elements.
- Date View - launches the Organizer component of Photoshop Elements in Date View Mode.
- Quick Fix - switches to the quick fix mode of the editor, which we'll cover in a future lesson.
- Standard Edit - This is the mode you're in now. Used for switching from Quick Fix Mode.