Hi Sandy,

I have a question for you about Photo Shop Elements 6. In my lesson I was told to view the ruler for my picture. Then I was told to click the crop tool which in turn changed the options listed directly under the menu. I was told to enter 2 numbers with demensions in inches in the width and height boxes. I noticed though that the demensions in the ruler do not change and stay in picas. I don't understand how I can crop a picture in inches like I entered in the options bar boxes for height and width. I clicked no restrictions in the options box as directed to at 1st. If the ruler is going to be in picas regardless of using inches as the measurement in the height and width boxes why even make the measurement in inches and not picas. How would I translate inches to picas or vise versa?

bump cause I think she missed it. *grin

Hi, sorry I didn't see this earlier. The first thing I need you to check is your preferences. Go to edit>preferences>units and rulers. Make sure the ruler is set to inches and points.

I don't use PS Elements but it's probably very similar to PS 7. I also don't use that method of cropping. I just grab the crop tool and crop to the size I want. If you choose to do it that way you may have to go in to get more precise since you'll be doing it manually. Also, turn off Snap, View>snap and snap to. make sure they are not checked so you ahve more control over your images.

If you choose to do it the way your reading or learning just make sure the measurements are in inches as stated above. I just did the lesson and it appeared it was going to crop only two inches rather than the one inch I typed in. It cropped to the one inch even though it appeared to be cropping at 2x2. Try not to be bothered by that because PS automaticaly adjust the image to the size you put in. Go ahead and put your numbers in and use the crop tool. Then hit enter and see what happens.

Thank you Sandy. I was able to change it with your help. I had to give up on the lessons though since it was on Elements 7 and mine is Elements 6. It got way too hard for me to figure it out on my version.

barbara