Need help with Adobe photoshop elements 7

[linlin]

Hi All,

Could someone experienced with photoshop give me some advice on:

1, How to change photo background to a different but solid color?
2, How to crop the photo to 2inch by 2inch, and is 600 pixels in
height and with?

I read some stuff online, but still couldn't do it

Thank you very much for your time.

Best Regards,
Jennifer Chao

[ken1]

Jennifer,

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1doAaXzYcjwLDnd3vSEVbI9UPQW9

1. Open the layers palette
2. For the purpose of this drill, I opened a new, blank layer, color white. You can see this as the background layer
3. I duplicated this layer, worked on background copy layer. Using the foreground color chip, I selected red. Went to Edit>fill layer>foreground color
4. I made a circular selection on this layer with with the elliptical marquee tool, holding down the shift key to obtain the circle.
5. Changed foreground color to green. Went to edit>fill selection>foreground color
6. Duplicated this layer , working on Background copy 2 layer.
The magic wand tool works very well in order to make a selection when there is a uniform background. I used this tool to make a selection of the background. Set foreground color chip to blue, then Edit>fill selection>foreground color.
7. If the background is busy with things other than a uniform color, then other selection tools work better.

In order to size a file, Image>resize>image size brings up a dialog where you can enter the parameters. For printing, I like to show the document size in inches. 240-300 px/in usually is satisfactory resolution in order to obtain a decent print.

The crop tool permits one to define height&width, and resolution as well.

If you will post your picture, we can make specific suggestions for your purpose, You can do it (free) at www.pixentral.com. Paste the address as I have above.

HTH