Peter, with regard to the drop shadow on the text, you have to covert the text from a vector to a raster, did you close the vector text, and select the raster layer to shadow. perhaps you selected the wrong layer by mistake. I suspect the flowers are a picture tube. If so, before you scatter them you have to create a new layer to scatter them on. That could be why you couldn’t place a drop shadow on them, you probably scattered them directly into another layer. To resize the scatter, you go to the top tool bar and lower the size, before you scatter. If they are to small, click on undo, and increase the size until you are happy with the result.
