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A6ETramMN
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January 21, 2022
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Unable to resize using bounding box handles in PS elements 2021

  • January 21, 2022
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I have Elements on a laptop and a desktop. I can paste an image into PSE on my laptop and there are bounding box handles to resize the image whenever I select the image. On my desktop, the bounding box handles only appear when the image is initially pasted in. After that when I select the image there are no bounding box handles, I can only move the image. I'm guessing there's a setting somewhere I don't know about. Thanks.

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Correct answer hatstead

The Background layer is a locked layer. Duplicate the Background layer and work on the Background copy layer.

Activate the Move tool and you should see the bounding box & corner handles.  You can also engage the Transform tool with keyboard shortcut CTRL+T.

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hatstead
hatsteadCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 21, 2022

The Background layer is a locked layer. Duplicate the Background layer and work on the Background copy layer.

Activate the Move tool and you should see the bounding box & corner handles.  You can also engage the Transform tool with keyboard shortcut CTRL+T.

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    A6ETramMNAuthor
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    January 21, 2022

    Hi,

    tried that🤷‍♂ Each time I pasted the image on the desktop or laptop I first created a new layer. Same problem.

    hatstead
    hatstead
    Inspiring
    January 21, 2022

    Please post a screen shot of the Layers panel to help us better understand the issue.

    My work flow is to go to File> open, and point to the picture file that I wish to work on.

    Exactly what are you "pasting"?

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