Thank you wishgranter and lubenko,
I now see how unwrapping works and that doing in manually I can choose custom parameters. I also see how the filtering can work for what I want, although I’m still learning it. The poly count however I still can’t get. I don’t know how to ‘select the model’ explicitly. When I switch to 2-d view there is no poly information, it’s all information about a particular image I have open in the window next to it.