Software Review: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 - Page 2

• Search Quickly and Conveniently - by using Keyword Tags. By using this feature you can apply tags to help you categorize your photos. Then, when you need to locate a photo, you can type in this tag, and all related images will appear. This makes it easy to classify and find any type of image you need.

• Automated Actions – has been added to the Guided Edit mode. These let you apply multi-step actions in just a few clicks. They provide shortcuts to a variety of effects and actions that include Faded Ink, Lose Weight, Resize, Crop, Captions, and Shrink. This will not only speed up your processing time by combining tasks, but will help you easily reproduce effects on different photos.

• New Photographic Effects – have also been added to Guided Edit mode, and will let you transform a simple picture into an artistic line drawing, or give it an old fashion look. With a few simple steps you can transform your image, and give it a more artistic flair.

• Toothbrush Tool – lets you whiten teeth with just a brush stroke. All you have to do is choose the tool, and paint over the teeth that you want whitened. This can also be used as a way to brighten up other areas of an image as well.

• Blue Skies Tool – lets you paint over parts of the sky and punch up the color to make the blue bluer all while leaving the rest of the image untouched. This is helpful when you take an image on a bland day or the sky is washed out and you want to punch up your image.

• Smart Brush Tool – will let you select and apply cool effects with just a single stroke. You can now select an area of your image, and apply various effects such as changing the color of a flower, or a shirt. You can improve the lighting, add textures, and other effects with eight libraries that contain more than 50 effects.

• Scene Cleaner – is a very cool addition. Have you ever been at a place, say a theme park, and you are trying to get a shot of the family, but there is always someone walking through? Well, now you just take multiple shots of the scene and find the best one. Then you load them all up and remove the unwanted people by drawing them out of the scene. Keep in mind that this will only remove those who change position between images. See the image below.

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