Hi- I am still working on my first page. I got a background and imported some pics but now am working on letters. I downloaded a tag alphabet but can't figure out how to use 1 letter at a time. I get the page w/ all the letters but can't select 1 individual letter (it selects all the letters on the page) so I tried to crop figuring I'd open the full page and crop each letter individually- no luck either. Can someone tell me how to do this?

Also, I want to make sure I am doing this right.... for my pictures I imported a pic. from my camera, cropped it and saved the cropped image as a .jpg. I opened a new file imported my next pic, cropped and saved as a .jpg. I did this until I had all my images saved in a folder that I needed for the page. I then imported my background into a new file and cropped it and brought the previously modified pics into this file as new layers. This is the file I am working with. I saved it as a .ufo. When the page is completed, I will save as a .jpg & a .ufo. Are these steps I am taking and the way I am saving correct?

Can I crop a shape other than the predefined circle, rectangle etc. For instance, there is a tutorial to make an egg shape, I did that and then wanted to crop a picture so that it was that same egg shape. I couldn't get it to do that, is it possible?

Finally, as far as the pixel size- if I import something should I just automatically define it at 300. If I do that, then crop and then enlarge, will it keep it at 300? I realize the pixel thing is really important but am having trouble understanding how to apply it. When I imported my background page, it came in at 3600x3600 so I assumed that was 12x12; I needed 8x10 so told the computer to crop to 2400x3000 assuming that would make it 8x10- I know I will not have to enlarge the page so I was not concerned about doing that. I don't get how to do it with other images such as a pic from a camera that I will crop then resize.

I'd appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks for your time...
Jill

Select the letter you want with the marquee tool and then turn it into an object...

Presto, you have an individual piece!

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Jacqueline
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I would minimise the number of saves you do to the jpgs since every save will lower the quality of the photo. After cropping the photo, cut and paste it into your layout which you will save as a .ufo. That way, it does not degrade the quality of the original.

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Yes you can do that! On the drop down menu that has 2D shape or 3D shape, choose 'selection'. Then convert your selection into an object.

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Jacqueline
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THANKS Jacqueline for your taking the time!!! I see that you said I should select the individual letter w/ the "marquee" tool... I "boxed" the individual letter with the "Standard Selection Tool" but now dont know how to turn it into an object, if you have another min. can you let me know. Thanks again, I REALLY appreciate it!

Hi Jacqueline.... I think I figured the object thing out somehow... it was not allowing me to convert to object but I kept clicking and somehow got it to work so don't waste time answering the email I just sent, thanks again.