Before and After Edit Views

[padrejeff]

My Missing Manual book says I should be able to get the before/after view in both Quick Fix and Guided edit modes. (I'm using PSE6 for Mac).

I am not getting that option in the Guided Edit.

Is this normal in the Mac version of PSE6?

If not, what might I be missing?

[Jeff Perry]

Rev Jeff, if the MAC version is like the Windows version, the location of the toggle (drop down menu) that you seek is in a different spot when in Quick Fix and Guided Edit. In Quick Fix it is a drop down menu in the lower left, but in Guided it appears (AFTER YOU SELECT ONE OF THE EDITING STEPS) in the lower right portion of the menu pallet (below Done and Cancel Button). Unlike the drop down in Quick Fix, it now works as a button toggle, but still gives you all the same options for how the B & A views appear.

Hope this helps.

Jeff

[padrejeff]

Rev Jeff, if the MAC version is like the Windows version, the location of the toggle (drop down menu) that you seek is in a different spot when in Quick Fix and Guided Edit. In Quick Fix it is a drop down menu in the lower left, but in Guided it appears (AFTER YOU SELECT ONE OF THE EDITING STEPS) in the lower right portion of the menu pallet (below Done and Cancel Button). Unlike the drop down in Quick Fix, it now works as a button toggle, but still gives you all the same options for how the B & A views appear.

Hope this helps.

Jeff

Many thanks, it works exactly as you stated. I feel so stupid; I should have been able to find that by myself.
What a great forum!

[Jeff Perry]

No need to apologize. It is not your fault that Adobe chooses to "mix it up" and make the same exact function look and feel different in to different modules of the same program.

Jeff

[Quixote]

Is there a way to get before and after views?

[padrejeff]

Is there a way to get before and after views?


Yes, at least in PSE6

Before and After can be had in "Guided" and "Quick" edit modes.

[Barbara Brundage]

Quixote, no, not in full edit.

[Quixote]

OK thanks - I'm new to Elements and I was going nuts trying to find that feature.

[efarnstrom]

When you have the image you want to edit then go to File>
Duplicate. Then look at them both in Windows>Images>Tile. Make your changes in the duplicate.

Not exactly what you are looking for.....but it works.