Slide Mounts Help

[Valerie]

:confused: I must be really loosing it. I have tried this oh so simple tut 3 times now and starting at step 4 all goes amuk....I use Elements 4, so in step 5 I have to CTRL click another layer to link (Shape 2 & 1), then in step 6 I'm to use the magic wand to select white area in Shape 2, then backspace to delete pixels (to "cut a hole"_ in the slide shape). Well when I do that all I get is the Shape 1 color no hole punched out. It must be something so simple that I'm missing or not realizing.......help, I feel like I fell down and can't get up, can do harder project, but can't complete this simple one.:confused:

[Wendy]

Hi Valerie ...

I will just go and take a look at the tutorial and see if I can help you. I just sent you a pm about something else :)

Will come back on the slide mount in a few minutes ..

Wendy

[kayser]

Valerie- Did you merge them after you linked them??I missed that step the first time, and I don't see it in your workflow above.

[Wendy]

Hi Valerie ...

Step 5 ... once you have linked the two shape layers together did you merge the two layers together?

Wendy

[Wendy]

Hi Kay ...

Guess we were typing at the same time ... but looks like we both came up with the same idea :)

Wendy

[Valerie]

The tut doesn't mention merge till step 9. I'll try merge as you suggested in Step 5. Thx


OOPS does say to merge --control E, but still nothing happened

[Valerie]

got it, got it, got it, have to learn to go a little slower when pushing button (not like typing at work) and look in the layers pallete to see results. Thx Kay & Wendy,you guys have saved me quite a few times. Hope I can return the favour someday.:)

[kayser]

Yea! Glad you got it to work. I'm glad to help in a small way, because I learn a ton from this forum. Looking forward to seeing your finished slide mount project...:)