another photoshop question

[shutterbug0303]

The good news....I was able to obtain a "legal" copy (he bought it, I borrowed it) of photoshop 8.0!!!! :D I am so happy about that!! I've been fumbling around with the trial version that Adobe has on their website, and I can't figure out something.

I am cutting out parts of a photo using the magnetic lasso tool (is that right?)...but when I try to paste it to another background, the photo is HUGE! I can never find a way to resize the image...? I'm sorry to be such a pain. I just get bewildered looking at all those buttons and functions. I am using tutorials on the net, but haven't found anything pertaining to this yet.

Thanks so much for advice and help! You guys are the best! :D

[BCBlondie]

Before you start cutting an image out, go to View - Actual Pixels.. ;)

Then you can go to Image - Image Size, and resize it.

[slleipnir]

Go to image, image size. Resize there. Make sure you do it before you slice hte image though.

Also, magnetic lasso it's really only good if the image is on a solid bg. I'd suggest the polygonal lasso instead :)