Resize a layer -senior moment

Hi
using ctrl t to resize a layer, how can I resize whilst constraining the proportions thought is was hold down the shift key but clearly not
thanks
Ian

It is Shift!
Make sure you use a corner of the bounding box.

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I am brand new to anything PhotoShop. I have created a talk balloon that I plan on putting it on a photo. I have the text on it already. However, the area outside of the balloon must be tranparent. I made it transparent pixel by pixel. There must be an easier way. So my two questions are:
1. How to make an area of a picture or layer transparent?
2. How to resize a layer or .jpg picture or any picture that can be edited by PS Elements 12
Tried to include the talk balloon file but it failed because of the content. What is wrong with " Hmmmmmm"
"I think this one fits". It is a psd file.
Bill

1. How to make an area of a picture or layer transparent?
Select the area where you want it to be transparent and use the Eraser of various types from the tool bar. there are essentially three types: Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser and Background Eraser. The selection tool has also many types.
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To resize any picture you simply go to:
Image >> Resize
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You just need to be careful not to0 degrade the image so much by resizing because pixels per inch changes and lower the amount per inch degrades the image; This is what happens when you increase the size while reverse is the case if you resize it downwards.

Senior moment? I can't find the Eject button on the menu bar preference

Whether through temporary blindness or by virtue of a senior moment, I can't find where the preference to show or hide the Eject button on the menu bar is located. I'm trying to hide it, as it had always been.
Any help will be most appreciated.

If you don't want it there then CMD drag it down, if you ever want it back...
On your main hard drive, dig down into System > Library > CoreServices > Menu Extras. Inside that window, double-click on the icon called Eject.menu.

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I created a document in InDesign which had numerous text and image boxes. I exported this as a PDF and then imported it as a layer into an Acrobat document (Acrobat 9 Pro) when I try to resize or move that layer only some of the layer moves - it doesn't seem to select the entire layer. Obviously the individual text/image frames created in InDesign are there, albeit hidden. All I want to do is resize and reposition the entire PDF exported from InDesign and have all the text/images retain their positional relationship.

It's not a layer really, but you can do much of what you describe if you use a button to display the page as the button's icon. You can make it any size you want and choose from several scaling types. You can also flatten the button when you're done to convert its appearance to regular page contents.

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Help! I have been searching FAQs and tutorials for hours. I used to be able to click and drag an image to change it's size while in the layer without having to specify a numeric value, just simply clicking and dragging then when happy with the size double clicking. I just upgraded to CS4 and can't find that option.
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I cannot identify with your past experience in Photoshop, perhaps you were referring to some other application In Photoshop consider the following approach to both resize and rotate. Press Ctrl + T and a bounding box appears around the elements in the active layer. pull on a corner to resize, or
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You could do something like this...
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var myDoc = activeDocument;
/////////////////////////////// Amend to suit /////////////////////////////////
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Query question ( I am having a senior moment)

I have 2 talbes
Table One
Key Value
A 1
A 2
A 3
A 4
B 1
B 2
B 3
Table Two
Key Value
A A
A B
B A
B B
B C
B D
B E
I want to return :
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A 1 A
A 2 B
A 3
A 4
B 1 A
B 2 B
B 3 C
B D
B E
How can I write this query ??
Thanks..

In deference to your seniority :P, I won't point out that you neglected to tell us how table one value joins to table two value, so you'll have to adapt thi sto meet your own needs.
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No they are separate orginal tracks.
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I know one way that works and it involves creating new document, resizing, then pasting back in. This seems extranious it seems there should be an easier way.
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100% amateur here
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</style>
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href="pages/galleries/theland/theland1.html"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','images/form
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</map>
</body>
</html>

Change this -
<body ...>
<div id="wrapper">
onload="MM_preloadImages('images/form
images/indexrogal.jpg','images/form
images/indexrocom.jpg','images/form
images/indexrotech.jpg','images/form
images/indexroinfo.jpg','images/form
images/indexroexpo.jpg','images/form
images/indexroprints.jpg')">
to this -
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images/indexrogal.jpg','images/form
images/indexrocom.jpg','images/form
images/indexrotech.jpg','images/form
images/indexroinfo.jpg','images/form
images/indexroexpo.jpg','images/form
images/indexroprints.jpg')">
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(you had the ellipsis in the body tag, even though I told you
NOT to do
that, and you had orphaned the code that should have been in
the body tag)
Change this -
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marginheight="0">
<div align="center">
to this -
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Finally, change this -
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to this -
#wrapper { text-align:left; width:831px;
(your table is 831px wide)
And for goodness sakes, learn some HTML before you hurt
yourself.
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> Murray Ace, I do have a question.
>
> Now everything works properly, both layer and under
image are conected so
> that
> they move together when the browser window size is
changed.
> But now everything has shifted to the right. It is no
longer centered in
> the
> browser window. Can you look at this and tell me what to
adjust. I'm
> afraid I
> may break what is now working.
> Thanks again for the help!
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> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
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> <style type="text/css">
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> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> </script>
> <script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
> </head>
>
> <body ...>
> <div id="wrapper">
onload="MM_preloadImages('images/form
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images/indexrocom.jpg','images/form
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images/indexroinfo.jpg','images/form
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>
version=7,0,19,0','width','550','height','400','title','slideshow','src','swf/sl
> ideshow1','quality','high','pluginspage','
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashp
> layer','wmode','transparent','movie','swf/slideshow1' );
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> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=7,0,19,0" width="550" height="400"
title="slideshow">
> <param name="movie" value="swf/slideshow1.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
> <embed src="swf/slideshow1.swf" width="550"
height="400"
> quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent"></embed>
> </object>
> </noscript></div>
> <body bgcolor="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"
marginwidth="0"
> marginheight="0">
> <div align="center">
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> <table width="831" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0">
> </span>
> <tr>
> <td align="left" valign="top" class="style1">
> <img src="images/form images/index.jpg" width="857"
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> border="0" usemap="#Map" id="Image1" />
> <map name="Map" id="Map">
> <area shape="rect" coords="645,198,702,240"
href="pages/print.html"
> onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','images/form
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onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" />
> <area shape="rect" coords="563,213,625,254"
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>

Trouble resizing layers to specific dimensions

Hello. I am using PSE 5 and I am trying to make an 11 x 8.5 brochure for my business, which will have a mixture of text and pictures. What I want to do is place four pictures in the brochure but the pictures, when dragged in, cover the whole brochure. I want to be able to resize each picture (layer) to 3 wide while constraining the height to 2.25.
Currently I can resize each layer by dragging one of the rectangular markers located around the active layer, but the scale is not preserved. I have looked in my PSE 5 help file, Adobes online help and Google to no avail. One site said hold the Shift key when resizing a layer to constrain its proportions, but this did not work for me.
When modifying a picture in a Microsoft Word document, the size can easily be modified by right clicking on the image and selecting «Format Picture» followed by clicking on the «Size» tab. Is there a similar feature is PSE 5?
Thank you

Dennis,
This program does not work the way MS Word does, and it may be easier to make a brochure with Word or a print shop program. However, one can make an artful collage in Elements.
1. It is desirable to have the resolution of the canvas and of the individual pictures the same. One can check the resolution in Image>resize>image size for each picture file, then resize as necessary
2. File>new>blank file will allow one to open a blank file in accordance with the dimensions (11x8.5")which you require. The resolution can be specified in this dialog as well. For printing, it is desirable to have a resolution of 240-300px/in. Create such a blank file.
3. This blank file will be the background layer, as seen in the layers palette
4. Open a picture file. Go to Select>all, then Edit>copy. Make the background layer active (the one from step #2), go to Edit>paste. This will place the picture on its own layer
5. Access the move tool, and resize the picture utilizing one of the corner handles.
6. Repeat for each picture.
7. Text will be on its own layer as well
8. 3x2.25" dimensions are unique, and I would crop each picture to this specification before step #4 above. With care, you may have minimal distortion.
HTH,
Ken

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I would like it for the menu to just expand width ways and the JSplitPane to rezise fully to take ip the rest.
Any ideas on where to start, I have an idea that it may be layout managers, but i cant seem to see how to get one to do this.
Any pointers would be appreciated cheers (I will happilly look up the API if someone could tell me where to start).
Cheers :)

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have used AS 3.0 for that. All those SWFs are playing video in form
of Flvs in that. While executing those UI Loaders show video
efficiently. Is there any way that I can code so that user can also
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else if(myUILoader.y>746)
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&&(myUILoader.y<746))
myUILoader.stopDrag();
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myUILoader.unload();
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myUILoader.load();
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Whenever I try to resize an image by clicking "image size" it only resizes the canvas. Before, I could click on a single photo and drag the corner to resize the image. If I pressed shift while I did it, it would retain the same dimension ratios. If I pressed control while I dragged the corner, it would let you manipulate the shape so that you could kind of make it 3D. If you put your cursor in the right place, it would also let you rotate the image. It won't even do any of that when I type text onto my canvas. It seems like that function is turned off, and I'd like to know how to use it again.
Maybe I'm saying it wrong. I guess what I really mean is resizing a layer. Like, if I copy and pasted a photo onto a canvas I already have open, I'd want to drag to resize it to fit the canvas.

Resize a layer -senior moment

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