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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@MiniMouse - I'm attaching a zip, the background and foreground I selected and the result. What seems to happen in PIXLR and Paint is that the 'canvas' (I think that's what its called) expands to accommodate the biggest picture but if you resize that picture so that its smaller than the other picture the canvas doesn't shrink. Then when I save the result I have an image as big as Mother Russia - that mainly looks like Russia in Winter - white.
I can over come the difficulty by ensuring that the foreground picture is not larger then the background
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Okay, now I know what you did. You can't change the size of the first layer with the 'Free transform'-mode because you will get a white canvas background then. Go to 'Image' on the toolbar and select 'Image size', choose the pixel size of your picture (Weidth/Height) there (with or without 'Constrain proportions'). It will change the size of the canvas too.
OR second choice you have, especially if you want only a frame of the backround, like without the book margine or you want to cut something else away, select the 'Crop tool (C)' in the tools window and set the 'Constraint' (it will appear right under your toolbar) on 'Output size' and choose your prefert Width and Hight there. Now go on your backround and start to pull (like drag and drop). A window will appear over your picture with blue dots in its corners. You can move the window, when your curser is inside the window, and pull the window larger or smaller when your curser is on one of the blue dots. It will keep your selected output size whatever you do (see example).
When you want to cut click somewhere outside of the window, you will get the 'Do you want to apply the changes?' - window again. It will cut everything outside your selected window away. DONE!
Your first layer should be like you want it to be, THEN you should add the second layer and THEN you can use the 'Free-transform'-mode.
If you want to cut something after your finished use the 'Crop tool (C)' for that but keep in mind that it will cut the whole picture with every layer in it.
If the picture is too small on your screen to work with after cutting, click the 'Zoom tool (Z)' (magnifier symbol) in the tool window and then right mouse click for Zoom in, Zoom out or Show all. It will not change the size of the picture, only what you see on your screen.
Hope that helps, let me know.
Also there are a lot more ways to do things in PIXLR but I just thought I start with the important things for what YOU wanted to do (considering the simple two steps you asked for). I was assuming that you use my covers or textures that have all the same size and that you wouldn't change that size. So it would be only a matter of how to apply the second picture over the first picture. Well, you're doing not exactly what I expected.
So if you are missing some more information, just let me know that too.
MiniMouse