Before and After View in Elements Editor

[TonyW]

For anyone who is a NAPP member (or saw the July/August edition of Photoshop User Magazine), Matt Kloskowski described an action that creates a side-by-side before and after view which can be quite useful. It's pretty clever the way he did it and I just tried the action in Elements and it works just like it does in Photoshop (I used it in PSE6 but I don't see any reason it wouldn't work in earlier versions). And I learnt two new shortcuts that also work in Elements Alt+, selects the bottom layer and Alt+. selects the top layer - couldn't find those in the Elements help file but they work.

Tony

[mrod]

I saw that, too, Tony! Pretty slick indeed.

Mike

[Ric Cisson]

Thanks Tony, I had not looked at my copy yet. The before and after is really neat, helps coming from LR to be able to continue the before and after in either PSE or PS. I had seen the shortcuts mentioned a few months ago in another forum and have been using them quite a bit.

Guess I better get caught up on my reading, I had not touched the July/August issue, and it arrived a week ago, until reading your post.