Creating Slide Mounts
Paint Shop Pro  Ver. 7  Tutorial
All the tools and effects shown in this tutorial are available in PSP  Version 6.X . However, the tutorial has been written using the menu layout in version 7.0
Slide mounts are a unique way of displaying your images on the Web as well as the cover of calendars, magazines etc. This tutorial will show you how to create your own realistic looking slide mount.
Open a new image 300 x 300 Pixels. Name it SlideMount. Make the ruler visible in the window and set the ruler dimensions to inches. Next, Select Layer, New Raster Layer, and click OK.
Use the Rectangle Selection tool to draw a rectangle 1.5 inches x 1.5 inches in size and center it in the SlideMount image window. Use the MOVE tool if needed to center the selection. You should have the image below.
Select the Paint Bucket tool, then in the color palette, change your Foreground color to a WHITE using values of 244 for Red, Green and Blue. Fill the selected area with this color. You should see the selection filled with a color very close to pure white but distinguishable from the background.
Next choose Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow and enter values of 10 for the Vertical and Horizontal Offsets, 50 for the Opacity and 25 for the Blur. Make sure that the shadow color is Black
Using the Rectangle Selection tool, draw a rectangle 3/4 " x 1" and place it in the center of the slide mount.  With the marching lines still present click and hold the Ctrl-key. Place the cursor just inward of the lower left hand corner of the selection and drag upwards and to the right until you have another rectangle inside the first one. This tell PSP to subtract this selection from the first and make the selected the thin border between the two selections. You will this area with color to give the slide an illusion of depth.
To fill the area, select the Paint Bucket tool. Go to the color palette and choose a shade of WHITE with the value of 215 for Red, Green and Blue. Now fill the area between the two rectangles by positioning the crosshairs inside the two lines of marching lines..
Once you have filled the area inside the lines deselect the image by choosing Selections, Select None.

Now click on the Magic Wand tool and in the Tool Option palette, set the Match Mode to RGB, the Tolerance and Feather values to zero (0). Click the center of the slide to select the inner rectangle and use Edit, Cut to extract it.
Ok. the slide image is in psd format. It's probably a good idea to save your work just in case. Now, what we want to do is add the finishing touches, to give it that realism. Click on the Text tool. Position the cursor in the top center portion of the slide and click the mouse button. When the text entry window pops up, select an Arial font at 18 points, use a Dark Blue color for fill and leave the Stroke empty. Make sure that  Create as Vector is checked and type the word Color Slide keeping upper and lower case as shown. Use the move tool to center the text in place and then select Layers, Convert to Raster Layer.  
I have put the finished slide here so that you can see where we're going, and to help you position the remaining text accordingly.
Select the Text Tool again. This time click on the area just below the center cutout where we will enter the word Premium. In the text entry window choose New Times Roman font at 16 points and make sure the Fill color is Black. Everything else remains the same. Type the word Premium and use the move tool to position it in place as shown.
Once again select Layer, Convert to Raster Layer to put each line of text on its own layer. Now for the second line. Using the Text tool click on the area just below the letter P in the word Premium. In the text entry window choose an Arial font at 12 points. Do not change anything else. Type Processing and click OK. Use the move tool as before to position the text in place and convert it to a Raster Layer.

Now let's work the left side. Are you tired yet? Well look at this way. Once you're done, you can save it and use it repeatedly without doing this all over again. Select the text tool (This is the last time, I promise) and click on the area over to the left. In the entry window change nothing. Enter the word Kodak as shown and click OK. Position the text in place and convert it to a Raster Layer..
Now we need to paint the butterscotch colored line under Kodak. Click on the Brush tool and in the Tool Option palette select a brush size of 8, an Opacity of 100, Hardness of 5 and a square shaped brush. For the foreground color use values of 254 for Red, 197 for Green and 0 for Blue to produce the bright butterscotch color. Paint a line under the word Kodak as shown. That's it for the slide. You're done. Well almost. We still need to put a picture in it.
Open a picture file of your choosing. Make the picture image active by clicking on its title bar and resize it to around 200 x 175 pixels.  Choose Select, Select All, Edit, Copy. Now move to the SlideMount window and make it active. Then click Edit, Paste, Paste as New Layer. With that layer active, choose the Deformation Tool and proportionately reduce the size of your picture so that it's slightly larger than the edge around the opening in the center. Double click on the mouse to accept. Now open the Layer palette and drag the picture layer below the slide layer. You should have a finished slide that looks like this
My recommendation here is to save this image in its native psd format so that it can be used over and over with the layers in place.
Mounting the photograph
To rotate the slide at different angle use the Merge, Merge Visible command not the Flatten layers command. Then use the Deformation tool to bracket the slide and turn it using the directional arrows.  See example above
Mount 3 or 4 slides with different images and turn them in various directions. Link full size images to the slide so that when when someone clicks on the slide image the full size photo will be displayed on your web page.
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