Using Hints, recipes, and tutorials

Photoshop Elements provides Hints, recipes, and tutorials to help you learn the application quickly and work knowledgeably.

The Hints palette displays an illustration and brief description of any palette or tool your mouse pointer is on. The How To palette provides recipes that guide you through typical image-editing tasks, such as removing red eye in photos, adding effects to text, and creating GIF animations.

Note: To add new recipes, choose Download New Adobe Recipes from the How To palette pop-up menu.

Tutorials are available through the Help system and use sample files to take you step-by-step through the basics of working with layers, animated GIFs, and merging photos. The layers tutorial is particularly helpful, because understanding layers is an important step in mastering fundamental Photoshop Elements tools and techniques.