Best Way to Select Complicated Parts of Image?

I'm trying to design a cover for a book and usually do the whole thing in Photoshop, which I know very well. I rarely use Illustrator and made the mistake of purchasing a graphic ornament I thought would be easy to alter, but has turned out to be quite complex, or at least complex for me. All I want is to move the inner loops on the ornament toward the frame (make them smaller so that I'll have more room for the title, and to shorten the bottom loop so it doesn't hang down so far into the rest of the cover. Being an illustrator novice, I thought this would be a simple adjustment (i.e. direct select and tap the arrow keys a few times), but this graphic is made of dozens, maybe more than a hundred, parts grouped and regrouped on two layers. Nothing is labeled and even figuring out what part to select and how to select it is really confusing. Sorry, this is probably a seriously stupid question, but is there any way to simplify an illustration so that I can more easily select the parts I'm interested in adjusting? I should probably just go purchase a different ornament, but really like the look of this one. Thank you!

Thank you. I worked with it last night for hours, and tried something similar, but kept messing it up. I don't think the designer intended for it to be edited that much. For instance, just to change the colors would have taken forever, since all the pieces are slightly different. I gave up and bought another one that was simple and editable.

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>I have created an image with multiple layers and many of
the layers are the
> text I would like to use as links. When I sliced up the
image using layer
> based
> slices, the end result was a degraded image.
>
> The page I am working on with the slice marks affecting
it can be seen at:
>
http://www.gigharborrealestate.com/ingigharbor/testpage.htm
>
> What is the best way to create a series of links in an
image?
> The jpeg version of the image I am working on is at:
>
http://www.gigharborrealestate.com/ingigharbor/image/form-banner.jpg
>
> The psd version of the image I am working on is at:
>
http://www.gigharborrealestate.com/ingigharbor/image/form-banner.psd
>
> The html version is at:
>
http://www.gigharborrealestate.com/ingigharbor/test.html
>
> I can't wait to hear from you experts as to the best way
to do this!
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike
>

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