Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual

Window

This menu controls which palettes and bins you see, as well as letting you adjust how your image windows display.

Images

This menu item lets you control how your images display. The choices are explained on page 60.

• Maximize Mode. Each image takes up the entire available space.

• Cascade. Image windows tile in overlapping stacks. (This is the usual view in older versions of Elements.)

• Tile. Your images appear edge to edge so that all windows are equally visible.

• Match Zoom. Choose this to make all open windows zoom to the same extent as the active window.

• Match Location. When you have only part of a photo visible in a window, choose this to make all open windows display the same part of their images, too, like the upper-left corner, for example.

Tools

This setting hides and shows the Toolbox. (If you've got the Windows version of Elements, you must drag the Toolbox loose from the Options bar before you can hide the Toolbox.)

Tool Options (Mac Only)

This setting hides and reveals the Options bar.

Color Swatches

Use this to show and hide the Color Swatches palette (page 180).

Histogram

Use this to show or hide the Histogram in its own palette (page 165).

How To

This setting shows or hides the How To palette, which contains step-by-step directions for popular Elements tasks and projects (page 17).

Info

Use this setting to bring up a palette with information about your photos, like the file size and dimensions, as well as color value numbers.

Layers

This is where you make the Layers palette visible ...