MOC Q&A - Post your questions here!

Here is a fairly basic video tutorial which may help you:

 

My screenshot is PSE 14, but 12 should be the same, I know 11 was.
Click on the move tool (it's the highlighted one). I have the bounding box selected, so those little corners on my layer come up.


In PSE, once you click on one of those corners, the tool bar at the bottom switches to this. Under the width/height percentage, there is a box that says constrain proportions. On PSE it should be automatically checked. If it is, then the proportions should stay the same when you just move with the mouse. If you hold in shift, it will not constrain the proportions, and you'll get funky weirdness - short and fat, tall and skinny, etc.



For some reason, Photoshop is the opposite when it comes to this! It only contains with a keyboard shortcut, or clicking a box each time.

 

Thank you ladies... I started watching YouTube videos last night. I didn't find the info I was looking for yet, but I did find a bunch of other cool features, lol! I'm heading to work soon, but I will check out your suggestions when I get home. Thx for your patience and helpfulness. By MOC7 I should be good to go!

 

Does the 75% lilypad products include just scrap items or is it the everything that ends up on the page? I painted a galaxy for my art doll page and I wanted to know if I could use a photo of it as a background and layer the scrapbook stuff on top of it.

 

It includes everything on the page. But if you used the painted galaxy you created, and then all your other scrap stuff was current in the store, you should be fine for posting in the gallery.

For the Art Doll challenge, there are no photos allowed though. You may want to check with @MrsPeel to see if that would be considered a photo, or if it would be fine since it's a painting. Regardless, I hope you share it! That sounds amazing that you painted just for your art doll!

 

I had to make a change to a layout - while its correct in the gallery it hasn't updated on the forum - is this going to be an issue? If so, how do I fix it?

 

Thanks @KimJ, hopefully it fixes itself soon so that my challenge is counted for day 28

 

awesome @KimJ thats all correct so its just on my laptop then that I'm seeing two different images

 

Try pushing ctrl+F5. Usually that pushes a hard refresh, not the cache on your computer. And the most recent image.

 

yay that worked, thanks @bestcee

 

I am techno master!

Sometimes.

In my dreams at least.....

 

I thought I was as well til this morning when I thought my modem had died (its been on its last legs for ages now) til my mum rang me from work to ask if I had electricity as she works really close by.....uh....no, oh maybe thats why I have no internet! The power outage only lasted 10 or so minutes but I felt really stupid thinking no internet til tomorrow, need to go get a new modem etc etc

 

It's me again, with a new photoshop elements question, lol!

I have my triangle layout prepared in a 12x12 layout. I assume the next step is that I need to make a triangular mask to hide everything but my triangle- is this correct? If so, how do I create a triangular mask?

 

I did it a little different. I made the triangle. My bottom triangle layer is a paper. So I clipped the paper to the triangle. As I layered things on, I selected the inverse of the triangle, and deleted what was outside it.
To do that,
Select the layer on your triangle.
Ctrl+click on the triangle. You should see the marching ants.
Select Inverse
Press delete! It should delete everything outside the triangle.

 

OK... how do I "cut" my first paper into a triangle?

 

You could clip it? (ctrl +G I believe is the shortcut) put your paper above the triangle. It should conform to the triangle shape.

 

Thank you, @bestcee... After I finally found the triangle shape buried WAY down in the pulldown options, I (sort of) figured it out from there. I never did get my triangle clip exactly the shape and orientation that I wanted, but I did GET a triangle shape, so... success! Thank you for your patient help!

 

@Miss Becki... I will share a video which I hope helps. You will need to merge all these layers you already have and then create a shape on a layer below that. For this challenge you then leave the background blank and flatten your image before saving for the web. You may want to keep a copy of your layered page in case you want to use it later as a proper layout for printing. So do not save the flattened image if you have not saved the PSD file first.

That one shows how use the shape tool and then this other one show how to clip your image to the shape: