iPad Case ~ Joy Watson
Joy Watson When making a iPad case the first thing you do is to go to the area marked add new work and locate the iPad row and download the template to your editing program. The p ro g r a m I a m u s i n g i s C o re l Paintshop Pro X4. I then open the image which I want to turn into a iPad case and duplicate the image and close the original so I know it is safe. You are now looking at the image you want on the case. I then go to the edit area at the top of the editing program which brings up the word copy and click on it. I then go back to the template so that is now the image you are now looking at and then go to the word edit again and then click of the words that say paste as a new layer and it over lay your image on the template. I then click on the move tool so I can slide the image up or down to where I wish to place the image. I then click on the pick tool which is located with the move tool and take the image to the edge of the red area on both sides. Next I go to the layers area and click on the words merge all (flatten). You will now have one layer. Lastly you
save your work as a jpg with your title and the word iPad. I save my iPad cases in a folder marked Ipad for quick location. Now you are able to upload this as your iPad cover. This is my hint for making a quicker iPad cover. By making your first iPad cover using the template and saving the image as a jpg you learn that the dementions are 2696 Ă— 3305. I then duplicated this image so I could use this now as my own template and coloured the image totally black and named it as iPad template. You then follow the above method and you know every time that the dementions will be correct. Template size is 2696 Ă— 3305 and a portrait size is 2602 Ă— 3906. When the image you want on your iPad is placed over your template the program will place the image so you have a small band of the black showing on both sides of the image. With the pick tool you drag your image to the edge on both sides and then layer merge all (flatten) and save as a jpg.