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The clapperboard

Ya wanna learn how to draw a clapperboard in paint shop pro 7? this must sound really stupid and quite a random tutorial, but since I worked this all out myself I thought it would be a good idea.

Method

open a blank document in paint shop pro. Make the dimensions something like this:
Width: 490px
Height: 350px
Now select a rectangle. This will form the lower part of your clapperboard where such things as the director and production stuffs go, so it depends what you intend to put on it how big it should be.

Make a new layer with this rectangle still selected & fill it in with black. Deselect.
Now select a thinner rectangle, but with the same width. Again, fill this in with black on a new layer. ("what the heck is that for?!")
Leave this for now, and make a new image. Set the height as the height of the previous rectangle (copy and paste this onto a new image and then press canvas size if you don't know it) and the width to about...25 pixels. Make the background white. Copy and paste this onto your clapperboard image as a new layer
Rotate this by 10 to the left (Image >> rotate):

Drag this layer so that it is on top of your thin rectangle. Make it so that a line of pixels hangs over the top, then duplicate this layer. move the second layer so that it covers the rest of the rectangle that is showing:

Now make it so that all layers apart from your white rectangle layers are showing:

Right click on one of your white layers and press "merge > visible"

Now make your other layers visible again, and duplicate your white layer. Make it into the pattern clapperboards have. Keep duplicating it until the whole thing is full:

Also, add a drop shadow effect (Effects > 3d > drop shadow)

Now duplicate this layer, and rotate it by about 15:

(the screenshot doesn't show it exactly - the screenshot was taken with a rotation of 25.)
At this point if you have followed my dimensions, you will need more room :P go Image >> Canvas size, Change the specification to 500 and 510 (width and height) then image placement put all of it on top and left.
Move your duplicate pattern into position:

Now draw a little circle (change the selection type to circle, then press shift while drawing it. right click on the selection tool and click tool options to change the selection type)
Make a new layer and fill it with white. Might want to rename this "circle" or something. Move it into position:

Once again, make all layers invisible apart from your duplicated pattern and the circle, and merge them. Rename this "top".

Move top down a little, like so:

Change your selection type to rectangle again, and draw yet another black rectangle:

This, as you can see, links your top and pattern together, so put this behind the top layer. If you wish you can try to rub out the grey of the dropshadow on the top layer. Also add a black dropshadow to the rectangle, and put it behind your pattern.

Now you can either leave this blank, or make it more realistic and add text and lines. In any case, I would suggest merging these layers to avoid confusion.

Take your line tool (open tool options if you haven't already) change the type to single line, width to 3, and line style to the first one. Antialias checked, create as vector checked, close path unchecked.
Draw lines like this across the black box:

Depending on what you intend to use this clapperboard for, you may change this part.
Now you can add your text. Personally, I have added Production to the top third, Director to the second third, Day, Scene and Take to the third third. Here's my finished copy:

I added a black dropshadow to the whole board once I merged the text, lines and board together.The quality is rather bad because I've made the background transparent, and also gifs just generally aren't very good quality :P

Any questions please email me, char@NOSPAMdisfunctional-day.net (remove the NOSPAM). No redistributing without my express permition, always credit me.