The Enhance menu

Aside from the panels and easy-to-use single-click effects available scattered about the Elements edit modes, the application is also bristling with drop-down menus. These provide the basics—such as commands for a new document (File>New Document), opening an existing document (File>Open), and closing a document (File>Close), pretty much as you'd expect to find in other photo-editing applications. We deal with these menus in later chapters, as well as at the back of the book in the Feature Appendix.

I regard the Enhance menu as the most creative of all the menus—this is where you'll find many of Elements' excellent tools, both automated and manual.

Try everything in the Enhance menu: One of the lesser-known tools, Color Curves, is a good color correction tool inherited, in a modified form, from Adobe Photoshop CC (see Chapter 8, Additional Tools and Features, for more on this tool).

Another impressive...