UV unwrap weird in Blender 2.56?

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Hello

I’m having trouble UV unwrapping in Blender 2.56.
I am learning from the book “Blender 2.5 Materials and Textures Cookbook” by Colin Litster.
I’m on chapter 7 and I’m trying to unwrap a face mesh.
The book suggests marking 4 seams two at the bottom on either side of the chin and two at the sides of the forehead.
I have created the seams ok.
I press A select the face and then U and select unwrap the result is a messy UV map I can’t understand why?
I have a attached a screenshot.
I would be grateful for any suggestions.

Thanking you in anticipation.:yes:

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A couple of quick things to try:
Remove doubles- W
Recalculate normals- Ctrl N
(maybe most importantly) Select all verts in the UV window then unpin- Alt P
Apply scale/rotation- Ctrl A

Then try unwrapping normally.

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Thank you dlax I don’t know which of those suggestions cured my problem. I did them all and then tried unwrapping again and it solved my problem.

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Thanks dlax! The unwrapping problem of Belinda also happen to me. What fixed it was “Select all verts in the UV window then unpin- Alt P”