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I really need help ! I was quite happily going along churning piccie after piccie out, all the same size 720px x 542px, approx 8" x 6", and now disaster has struck. For whatever reason I can no longer do this as my photographic software seems to have taken on a mind of its own.
Instead of the normal size I produce I am getting very weird sizes. This may stem from the fact that I don`t even know how to change from the feather thing, which is directly under the filter, to the crop size thing.
Also when I save a piccie it does not take any account of the crop size so when I re-open it, it is full size ? I then have to resize it and that is when I get some very strange sizes appear.
I am currently using Photoshop Elements 3.
I really do need help please.

JohnZ said:

I really need help ! I was quite happily going along churning piccie after piccie out, all the same size 720px x 542px, approx 8" x 6", and now disaster has struck.

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Well, for starters, it sounds like you have been changing your images to 720 x 542 pixels. I cannot tell from your post whether you are doing this via cropping or resizing. If you were doing it via cropping, my general comment would be that cropping should be done depending on the contents of the image, not some standard setting - i.e. you usually should crop for composition.

Also, if you are starting with images from a digital camera, you are cropping A LOT. Any reason for this? An image 720 x 542 is VERY small and really should not be printed at 8" x 6" (the rule of thumb is you need at least 200 pixels for each inch of print, so to print at 8 x 6 you would need an image at least 1600 x 1200.

If you are resizing instead of cropping, again, why are you doing it?

As far as picking tools in an image editor, usually you click on the tool you want and it becomes the tool you use. Don't know what else to say without more info.