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 in detail on Section 3.5.
Maximize Mode. Each image takes up the entire available space.
Tile. Your images appear edge to edge so that all windows are equally visible.
Cascade. Image windows tile in overlapping stacks. (This is the usual view in older versions of Elements.)
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.
Color Swatches
Use this to show and hide the Color Swatches palette (see Section 7.5.3).
Histogram
Use this to show or hide the Histogram in its own palette (see Section 7.3.1).
How To
This setting shows or hides the How To palette, which contains step-by-step directions for popular Elements tasks and projects (see Section 1.3.2).
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 or hide it. See Section 6.1.1.
Navigator
Turn the Navigator off and on here. The Navigator lets you adjust which portion of a large image is visible on your screen ...
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