Blue Daffodils Domain - Polaroid Tutorial for Paint Shop Pro 6


This is a really simple little tutorial, but quite effective, brought here by request of Cindy from the PSP Friends Egroup :o) Before you start, will need an image that you want to make into a polaroid. I used a space scene that I had made,but it would make far more sense to use scenery or family members!
1. Create a New Image, 365x415 pixels with a transparent background. Make sure that you have the rulers showing around your image. If not, go to View/Rulers
2. Click on the Seletion Tool. In the Tool Options palette, make Selection Type Rectangle, Feather 0 and Antialias ticked. Place your cursor at the positon 15,15 (you will be able to see this in the bottom left hand corner). Drag the rectangular selection across until it matches the numbers shown . This doesn't have to be exact, if it makes it easier, just align the rectangle to the inner edges of the first row of grey and white squares on the transparent backgound.
3. Go to Selections/Save to Alpha Channel and press OK, name your selection eg. polaroid frame, then press OK again.
4. Change your foreground colour to white and click on the Flood Fill tool. In the Tool Options palette, choose Solid Color from the drop-down menu. Flood Fill your selection. Press CTRL+D to drop the selection.
5. Create a new raster layer . Click on the Selection Tool again. Change Selection Type to Square. Position your cursor at 25,25 and drag across until it matches the numbers shown.
6. Go to Selections/Save to Alpha Channel and press OK, name your selection eg. square, then press OK again.
7. Open your image that you want to use for your polaroid - it needs to be at least the same size as the square selection you have just made, but can be a little bigger. If necessary, trim the image so that it is as near to square as possible. Press CTRL+C on your keyboard to copy the image.
8. Click back to your polaroid image. Press CTRL+SHIFT+L or go to Edit/Paste/Paste into Selection. Press CTRL+D to drop the selection.
9. Create a new raster layer . On the Layer Palette, click on the layer & holding down the right mouse button, drag it under all the other layers.
10. Go to Selections/Load from Alpha Channel and choose your first selection. In my case, it was Polaroid Frame.
11. When the selection is loaded, go to Selections/Modify/Contract and contract the selection by 1.
12. Go to Image/Effects/Drop Shadow. Make the Color Black, Opacity 80, Blur 10 and Vertical and Horizontal both 3. Apply the drop shadow.
Your polaroid picture is now finished. Depending one what you want to use it for, you may want to merge all layers, or if you press CTRL+A to select the whole image, then press CTRL+SHIFT+C you will copy the polaroid, but retain a transparent background, so it can now be pasted into another image.

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