Scaling one image to fit into another? How to?

rootroom  wrote The cutout image is way too large to fit properly into the second photo,whats the easiest way of doing this?

1. Select the object (B) with the lasso tool. The "marching ants" indicate that the selection is active.
2. Go to Edit>copy to place it on the clipboard
3. Open the 2nd photo-file (A), and go to Edit>paste
4. A will be the background layer, and B will come in as Layer 1
5. Activate the move tool, and resize B with the corner handles of the bounding box, and position.

The easiest way may depend on your Elements version...

In recent versions, when you drag an image from the photo bin over the image in the editing space (the 'background'), the bigger dragged image is shown as a 'smart layer', it is shown as a rectangle included in the background. You simply resize that rectangle to show the size, position and angle you want. If you have to 'downsize' the rectangle, that means that the oversized input will be 'resampled' to the resolution of the background. You would only lose definition if you had to 'upsize' the rectangle, in which case the rectangle would show at the same definition of the background with a size inferior to the background size.

The advantage of a smart layer is that you can resize it (move it, rotate it...) so long as you have not 'simplified' the layer.