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Bertiewooster

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I've been using PE 2.0 for years now and just bought PE8.0 for my new MBP.

After doing File - Open and selecting a photo, the image doesn't go straight into the main workspace but instead goes to the bottom row 'Project bin actions' AND to the right hand side in 'Layers'.

I try to drag the thumbnails from these locations into the main area and nothing happens. I double click on the thumnails and nothing happens.

I don't know what is going on!

Do the default preference settings need adjusting or am I doing something wrong? Obviously I'm not used to the new features in PE but I'm frustrated that something as basic as loading an image is not working.

In PE 2.0 I just selected an image from iPhoto and it loaded straight into the main area of the screen so I could work on it.

(btw - I'm assuming that old versions of PE are just for the PowerPC Macs and incompatible with Intel models? I cannot install PE 2.0)

Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks.
 
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