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Jan 30th, 2007 - 03:44:27 |
This tutorial will show you how to use the Guides in Paint Shop Pro X to create a type of triptych or three-sectioned sliced photo. This is sometimes referred to as storyboarding.
1. Begin by opening your photo and creating a duplicate of it (Shift+D). Close the original photo. For this example, I’ve used a photo that I took at Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas, NV.
2. Change the Background Layer containing your photo to a Raster Layer by clicking on Layers > Promote Background Layer. This will allow you to have a transparent background once you slice your photo later in this tutorial.
3. Be sure your Guides are enabled. Click on View > Guides. After enabling Guides, there should be a checkmark next to Guides when you go into View > Guides again.
4. The next step will depend on the width of your photo. Determine the width of your photo by going to Image > Resize. Look at the Original Dimensions at the top of the box. Click Cancel. Divide the width of the photo by three. For this example, the width of my photo is 350 pixels. 350 divided by 3 is 116.6666666. Let’s ignore the fraction…the width of my photo divided by three is 116.
5. Hover your mouse over the ruler on the left side of your layout until it turns into a “plus” sign.
6. Drag your mouse to the right and place the guide line anywhere on your photo (it doesn’t matter at this point where you place it but try to aim for about the first one third of your photo.)
7. Look at the top ruler above your photo. You should see a little marker where your guide line was placed.
8. Right-click on the marker in the ruler. The Guide Properties box should open.
9. Notice that I didn’t quite hit the one-third mark. In the Guide position box, enter the number that you came up with as one-third of your photo. In this example, it was 116. Click OK.
10. Repeat the last five steps except place the guide line at the two-thirds mark. In this example, it was 232. Your photo should now have two guide lines placed at one-third intervals.
11. Now you’ll need to place two more guide lines onto your photo. They should be 5 pixels to the right of your first two guide lines that you just placed. If you want a wider space between your photo sections, you can increase the pixels to 10 or more depending on the look you want to achieve. For my photo, I placed my third guide line at 121 (116+5 = 121) and the fourth guide line at 237 (232+5=237). There should now be a total of four vertical guide lines on your photo.
12. Enable your Selection Tool (S) and use the rectangle.
13. Make sure your guides are set to snap (Shift+Alt+G). Confirm this step was successful by going to View and make sure there is a checkmark next to Snap To Guides.
14. With the Selection Tool enabled, select the narrow section of the first third of your photo.
15. Delete the selection by hitting the Delete button on your keyboard.
16. Repeat for the other section.
17. You can now copy your sliced photo and paste it into a new layout. Be sure to add a drop shadow.
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