katiehart

YOU HAVE DONE IT!! That was it....I needed to click on move selected pixels. This is like learning a new language. Thank you. You have no need to apologise, it's me, for some reason I wasn't seeing it until this line of yours... [Emphasis added]I've said this once before, let's hope I mean it this time: I think I may know what you mean. The blue box indicates an active selection where manipulation only applies to the selection, not the pixels within the selection. You will want to use the Move Pixels tool ( ) instead of the Move Selection tool ( ) to adjust the selection. Now the pixels the selection is composed of will be effected, i.e. the image. That should be it.

No...I may be asking the question wrong. Let me tell you what I am doing to give you an understanding of what i need. I have a 12 x 12 background for a scrapbook page. I dropped a 4x6 photo on top of it. The photo is too large and I would like to resize the entire photo to be smaller. I don't need to crop any of it off, I just need it resized to maybe 3x5. Shift, Left click, drag makes the blue box smaller, but what do I do next to make the photo actually get resized. At this point its just sitting there...the large photo with the highlighted box on top of it. Im sorry to be a pain, but nothing in the help or tutorials has anything as basic as this. LOL I've underlined the most important part of this.Is this the solution you are looking for?

Thank you for your help... When I click on resize image it only resizes the 12 x 12 background the photo is on...not the layer/image I have selected.

I apologize ahead of time for asking such a basic question. This is the first time I have used this type of program. I would really appreciate it if someone could simply tell me step by step how to resize an image. I dropped a photo into my workspace on to an existing larger background. I held down shift-left mouse button-and dragged the image to the size I want. Now what do I do? How do Imake it actually resize or "scale" down the image? I am missing something very simple here. It's just sitting there highlighted in blue. Thank you for your patience...