Cropping/scrapbooking/photoshop 10 question

I do a lot of scrapbooking using photoshop and I recently upgraded from photoshop 6 to photoshop elements 10. With my old program, I could drop a photo onto the page and using the move tool I could change the size of the photo by dragging the top down or the sides over. I could make a 4x6 into a perfect square and the photo would look normal. With my new program, I do the same thing and the photo lookes squished. Instead of cropping out some of the photo to make it fit into the space I want it to fit in, it just squishes the whole picture over to allow it to all fit into the space. How do I get it to stop doing that? I have tried everything I can think of and it just keeps doing the same thing. I am thinking I liked the 6.0 version better!

I just click new, make a blank 12x12 page and use digital scrapbooking elements and papers to create my page. I do not use the create function at all. Then I just add the photos onto the page, move them to where I want them, and save. I just don't have the freedom to move them the way I did with photoshop 6.0. But that was for p.c. and I just bought a mac so I had to upgrade becsause my old software wasn't compatible. Thanks for trying to help me! I guess I will just have to get used to doing it another way

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