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.