PhotoKit-EL
Effects Palette
Perhaps
the most efficient way to work with PhotoKit-EL is via the Effects
palette of Elements 2.0. Normally tucked
into the palette well, the
Effects palette contains simple to use scripted actions to produce
the indicated and named effects.
 When
opening the Effects palette, you can select any of the PhotoKit-EL
Sets and see the Effects in each set. The PhotoKit-EL effects are
denoted by PKEL abbreviations. To run the selected effect,
merely select the one you wish and click
on
the 'Apply' button.

If
you wish, you can pull the Effects palette out of the well to use
as a stand alone palette. There are two different
ways of displaying the selected Effects set. The 'Thumbnail View'
is shown above and the 'List View' shown below.
You
can choose
the views from the fly-out 'More' menu or by clicking on the buttons
on the bottom of the palette as shown below.
  
The
Effects palette above has been pulled from the palette well and
the display
is set to List View. The Brown
Tone has been selected and if the Apply button is clicked, PhotoKit-EL
will launch and automatically run the selected effect. Below
is the result of applying the Brown Tone effect from the B&W
Toning set.

Each
of the PhotoKit-EL sets has a complete list of all the PhotoKit-EL
effects in that set. The Effects palette is therefore a useful
means to
navigate and explore PhotoKit-EL. It should be noted, however,
while Pixel Genius has tried to have each icon preview accurately
represent the
visual effect
contained, due to the small size of the icons, the
previews are only a rough approximation of the final PhotoKit-EL
effects.
  
The
palettes above show the Color Corrections set on the left and
the Sharpen & Smooth set on the right. In addition to the default
series of PhotoKit-EL effects loaded when you installed PhotoKit-EL,
we will be posting additional free effects for PhotoKit-EL users
on the PhotoKit-EL Info page. If you would like to see additional effects, please
visit the PhotoKit-EL Info page by clicking HERE.
Note, you will need to be connected to the Internet to visit the
web sites. |