Different Sizing/Cropping Procedure than accustomed to in Photoshop CS5.

[startingtopuff]

Having had the rug pulled out from under me following CS5 inability to work with High Sierra I am trialling Elements 2018 without success. With CS5 I would create a canvas of say 600 x 566 pixels, drag my image file into the window and using mouse and shift key move & resize then commit the transform.This would only take a minute or so. Try as I might I simply cannot replicate this simple procedure with Elements. I have watched several You Tube videos but they all seem very complex. Please can some one provide a quick and easy way to carry out this procedure before my 30 day trial expires

[MichelBParis]

startingtopuff  wrote

Having had the rug pulled out from under me following CS5 inability to work with High Sierra I am trialling Elements 2018 without success. With CS5 I would create a canvas of say 600 x 566 pixels, drag my image file into the window and using mouse and shift key move & resize then commit the transform.This would only take a minute or so. Try as I might I simply cannot replicate this simple procedure with Elements. I have watched several You Tube videos but they all seem very complex. Please can some one provide a quick and easy way to carry out this procedure before my 30 day trial expires

Do you drag the file from the photo bin showing open images (bottom panel)?

You should get a smart layer and be able to work the same as in CS5.

[startingtopuff]

I drag the files from within Finder. Not certain what you mean by smart layer. If I click on Layers I get a repeat of the image in right hand sidebar but unlike CS5 where I could just use the back space to delete after saving the transform this doesn't seem to work either. I cannot get any sizing handles once the file has been placed in the canvas window.

[Jeff Arola]

There is a major difference between photoshop cs5 and photoshop elements 2018 in regards to dragging in documents from the outside like from finder, in that in photoshop cs5, the document can be placed into an existing open document, but with pse 2018, the dragged document is opened as a new document and cannot be placed into an existing document when dragged in from outside of pse 2018.

So, that could be the reason your not seeing the transform handles, since the document your working on most likely has a locked Background Layer.

You can test this by after making your new document canvas and then dragging in the other document from finder you go Window>Images>Tile and see if you have two documents.

[startingtopuff]

Hi everyone, thank you for your input. So the $64,000  question is how to I enlarge, reduce, position and crop images to fit a standard 600x566 px canvas. I'm panicking now as I have upwards of 90 jpegs to upload on my wifes' website before the start of the New Year.

[hatstead · Accepted solution]

startingtopuff  wrote

Hi everyone, thank you for your input. So the $64,000  question is how to I enlarge, reduce, position and crop images to fit a standard 600x566 px canvas. I'm panicking now as I have upwards of 90 jpegs to upload on my wifes' website before the start of the New Year.

1. Open the PSE editor in Expert tab
2. Go File>New>Blank file. Enter the pixel dimensions and the resolution. This will be your canvas.
3. Go to File>place and point to a picture file, and place.
4. Use the corner handles to adjust the size as indicated.

[startingtopuff]

Hatstead, I can't thank you enough for your advice. At the time I couldn't believe Adobe would make a process more complicated even though Elements is a cut down version of Photoshop. Really appreciate your input and thanks again.

[hatstead]

You're very welcome. Glad to help.