This tutorial will teach you how to create slide mounts for your digital photos. These looks cool when used as thumbnails before enlarging the photos on the screen and can make a cool background when you are browsing through a lot of photos. Simply add some arrows to the border of the slide for a cool slideshow viewer.

Step 1:: Open your image in Adobe Photoshop.
Step 2::Create a new image. In this tutorial I am doing a 300 pixel by 300 pixel image.
Step 3:: Now go to the Rectangular shape tool. It is located unter the text tool. You might need to click and hold in order to be able to select the Rounded Rectangular shape. Draw the following on your blank image. Be sure to set the fill color to white.

Step 4::Now create a drop shadow using the following values:

Step 5:: You might need to add a stroke to the box depending on what your background color was originally set to when you created it. Use a stroke of 1px. Opacity of 65%. For the color use #CCCCCC.

Step 6:: Now add the image to the middle of the slide.

Step 7:: Right click the layer with your picture and click "Select Layer Transparency." Now go to Select > Modify > Border and set it to 2 pixels. Head to Edit > Fill and fill with the color #CCCCCC.

Congratulations... you now have a decent looking slide which you can write stuff on.

All Photos are Copyright of Mike Last at www.mikelastphoto.com