Run Photoshop Elements. By default, it starts with the "Welcome Screen" allowing to chose your workspace.

1. In our examples we will only use the standard editing layout. So I recommend to disable the Welcome Screen* and select the "Editor" workspace, as it is shown in the movie
*To enaible this screen again, just pull down menu Window > Welcome and select "Start Up: In Welcome Screen".

NB See also About Quick Fix workspace.

2. Now you can see this work area. Look around. There are traditional pull-down menus at the top and a few palette windows docked in the Palette Bin on the right side of the program window

Now we have to learn how to customize our workspace. With the potential of using many tools on a single project, it becomes a requirement to know how to move, resize, hide and display palettes.

Attention! This tutorial was composed for Photoshop Elements 4.0 and 3.0 . Instruction for the older versions available here.