**Program Tutorials** : Photoshop Elements : *Element

This tutorial will show you how to create a slide mount from a patterned paper in PSE2 &3.

1. Create a new document (File> New) any size as long as it is bigger than the slide mount you want to create.
2. Open the patterned paper that you will turn into a slide mount.
3. With the Move tool active (keyboard shortcut V) drag and drop the paper into the new document.
   
4. Click on the Rounded Square tool in the toolbox.
   Hint- you can right click on whichever Shape tool is visible and then select the Rounded Square tool.
   
5. On the Options toolbar, set the radius to 30 pixels.
   
6. Draw a rectangle. In this example the rectangle is 2 inches wide and 1.75 inches tall.
   
7. On the Options toolbar, set the radius to 20 pixels.
8. Draw a smaller rectangle inside the first rectangle. In this example the smaller rectangle is 1.25 inches wide and 1.875 inches tall.
   Hint- to better distinguish the two rectangles, change the color of one of them.
   
9. Adjust the size and orientation of the patterned paper, so that the portion under the rectangles is what will become the slide mount.
   
10. While holding down the CTRL key click on the large rectangle layer in the layer palette.
11. While holding down the CTRL key and the ALT key and click on the small rectangle layer in the layer palette. You have just selected the shape of the slide mount.
    
12. Make sure that the patterned paper is the active layer and copy (CTRL+C) and paste (CRTL+V). Turn off all but the newest layer and the basic slide mount shape is visible.
    
13. In the Styles and Effects Palette, select Layer Styles and Bevels.
    
14. Click on the Simple Inner style. To adjust the bevel size, click on the f next to the slide mount in the Layer Palette.
    

Finished Slide Mount