Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual page 47

• Open the Preferences folder in the System
Folder, and drag the following files to the Trash:
Adobe Save For Web 1.0 Prefs and all files in the
Adobe Photoshop Elements Prefs folder.
New Preferences files will be available the next
time you start Photoshop Elements.
Using tool pointers
When you select most tools, the mouse pointer
matches the tool's icon. The marquee pointer
appears by default as cross hairs, the text tool
pointer appears as an I-beam, and painting tools
default to the Brush Size icon.
To set the tool pointer appearance:
Choose Edit > Preferences > Display & Cursors.
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Choose a tool pointer setting:
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Click Standard under Paintings Cursors, Other
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Cursors, or both to display pointers as tool icons.
Click Precise under Painting Cursors, Other
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Cursors, or both to display pointers as cross hairs.
• Click Brush Size under Painting Cursors to
display the painting tool cursors as brush shapes
representing the size of the current brush. Brush
Size cursors may not display for very large brushes.
Click OK.
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The Painting Cursors options control the pointers
for the eraser, pencil, airbrush, paintbrush,
impressionist brush, background eraser, magic
eraser, red eye brush, clone stamp, pattern stamp,
and the smudge, blur, sharpen, dodge, burn, and
sponge tools.
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The Other Cursors options control the pointers
for the marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop,
eyedropper, gradient, paint bucket, shape, hand,
and zoom tools.
To toggle between standard and precise cursors
in some tool pointers, press Caps Lock. Press
Caps Lock again to return to your original setting.
Making previews display more quickly
The Use Pixel Doubling preference option speeds
up the preview of a tool's or command's effects
by temporarily doubling the size of the pixels
(halving the resolution) in the preview. This
option has no effect on the pixels in the file;
it simply provides faster previews with the tools
and commands.
To speed up previews:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Display & Cursors.
2 Select Use Pixel Doubling, and click OK.
Resetting all warning dialogs
Sometimes messages containing warnings or
prompts regarding certain situations are
displayed. You can disable the display of these
messages by selecting the Don't Show Again
option in the message. You can also globally reset
the display of all messages that have been disabled.
To reset the display of all warning messages:
Choose Edit > Preferences > General.
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Click Reset All Warning Dialogs, and click OK.
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