Working with panels and the Panel Bin

You'll find the most important panels in the Panel Bin, located on the right-hand side of the main screen in the Quick and Expert Edit modes. While they might not be the most glamorous part of this application, panels still play an important part in your day-to-day workflow.

Using Styles – drop shadows and more: Styles, third panel from the right (arrowed), contains a lot of special effects—from a simple color filter to something a lot more sophisticated, such as the plastic look yellow neon effect seen on my La Habana, Cuba text layer. One click on the thumbnail and the effect is applied. Easy.

The principle panels in the Quick Edit mode are the Adjustments panel (Chapter 3, The Basics of Image Editing), Effects, Textures, and Frames (Chapter 4, Getting Started with Easy Solutions). The Expert Edit mode has a wider selection of panels, including Layers, Effects, Filters, Styles, and Graphics (Chapter...