Making a slide show

You will need photographs or pictures for your show.

First make a screen.

Open a new transparent canvas 500x400

With a gradient of your choice in both boxes of your material palette go to preset shapes-choose the rectangle with rounded corners

Draw a line almost width of your canvas about one square deep.

Convert to a raster layer and add an inner bevel. The settings are on the screen shot.

this is one of Shells inner bevels-thank you Shell

Add a new layer

Now make another rectangle for the bottom of the screen this should be deeper as the screen usually pulls up from this part-well it did on my screen many years ago..

Use the grey and white squares to get the rectangles inline.

Add a new layer

With selection tool on rectangle-draw a rectangle that is the same width as the screen top and bottom but just going into the rectangles .

In your foreground of your materials palette have the colour #e5dbdb and flood fill the selection with it.

Add noise at 10% -chose monochrome and uniform.

Layers -arrange-send to the bottom.  Layers merge visible

Edit copy and edit paste as a new image. Resize if you will want your end slide show to be smaller or larger.

To add the pictures.

Layer- duplicate -one less time than pictures you want to show

In your layer palette hide all but the bottom layer-highlight this layer.

Copy and paste your first picture onto canvas-reduce the opacity to 70 as pictures on a screen are never as sharp as a photograph.

Layers-merge visible and hide this layer.

Unhide the next layer up in your layers palette.

Copy and paste the next picture and reduce the opacity as before.

Merge layers visible then hide this layer and unhide the next layer up in the layers palette.

Keep working your way up the layers palette making sure that the layer you are working on is highlighted and all the others are hidden.

Unhide all layers and save as a PSP image- call it slide show.

Open Animation shop. Open your slide show PSP image in animation.

Test the animation-you will see it runs very quickly.

Click on one of the frame-edit -select all.

Right click on one of the frames-frame properties-I changed mine to 150

Save as a gif and that's the tutorial finished.

I hope that you enjoyed it.

written by Chrissie April 2005