Chapter 4. Image Makeover
One of the most important aspects of good picture editing is also very simple; you need to have a plan. And to have a plan, you need to have an idea or a vision of how you want your picture to look after it has been edited.
Having a logical plan, therefore, is almost as important as knowing how to execute that plan in order to create a fabulous result. Not surprisingly, this requires a bit of forward-thinking and a reasonably good knowledge of the tools at your disposal.
At a very basic level, this plan might simply be to see your picture appear brighter and more colorful than the underwhelmingly drab-looking RAW file that you see in Photoshop Elements' Camera RAW window.
Because of its relative simplicity, this kind of plan is relatively easy to accomplish quickly and effectively using any of the amazing Photoshop Elements global tone changing tools or instant effect presets we looked at in Chapter 3, The Basics of Image Editing.
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