Tray to collect images for collage

[Ken Veal]

I am trying to create a collage in x5 by following a tutorial which reads
1. First, launch PaintShop Pro and in the Manage workspace, choose the images that you want to work with.
2. I’ve used a tray to collect all the images in one place. The tray is a like a virtual folder, so the images aren’t duplicated on my computer.
3 Next, go to Edit . If you don’t see the tray in the Organizer palette, click the Show/Hide Toolbar Buttons arrow and enable Tray."

one How do I create a tray, and once created, how do I get the images in it.

two Where are the show/hide toolbar buttons

[Forriner]

1. To create a tray: in Manage mode you'll see three Tabs on the thumbnail palette: One with the active folder name, one labeled "My Tray" and a "+" sign. Click on the plus sign, give the Tab a name, and it's created for you.

2. To get images to the tray, drag thumbnails from the active folder tray to your new tray's Tab. Or if you opened an image directly or through the Explorer in Edit mode, it's on the "My Tray" Tab. Drag it to your new tray from there. ("My tray" is like a holding area for images that are open in the Edit space, so you can't use it for your projects because it empties on closing the program or switching between work spaces.)

3. In the Edit screen, if the organizer is not visible as a button at the bottom (not sure where, using X4 here) left of the workspace, try menu View/palettes/Organizer (shift+F9). Hovering over that button with the mouse should open it. Check out what the ×, the thumbtack icon, and the little triangle do. Same functions as on other palettes, including docking and auto-hide.

[Ken Veal]

Thanks for the reply
For the background ,I have selected just a white colour via file-new image, this shows in the layers palette as background. The tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7D0sz2atI advises
“In the Organizer palette, select the images that you want to use and drag them to the Layers palette. Each image is added as a separate layer.”
When I do this, each of the 4 images do not show as a separate layer but go on top of the background to change it to the dragged image. What am I doing wrong here
Do I really need to use a tray, would it not be less hassle for me just to import images into the edit space or would this not work

[LindaSue]

Do I really need to use a tray, would it not be less hassle for me just to import images into the edit space or would this not work

That would work perfectly fine. If you did decide to use a Tray, you could also create it and add images to it in Edit mode.

[Forriner]

In X4 dragging a number of thumbnails to the layers palette doesn't add each image as a layer to another image, it just opens the dragged images in the workspace. You use X5, the tutorial is for X6, so there seem to be differences.
So, for X4 and it should also work in X5, you have to open the images you want to add as layers to another image, and adding them to a tray first won't help much.
In X4 you don't have to 'copy/paste as new layer' each image. If you open the layers palette you can drag the layer button from the active open image to the target image (the image itself, not its layers palette) and release. The layer will be added to the target.

[Kathy_9]

Here's a handy script that Cassel created that may be of some use to you. http://creationcassel.com/store/index.p ... cts_id=254

[Ken Veal]

Sorry to be a pain, but as you can tell ,I am a novice at this
“In X4 you don't have to 'copy/paste as new layer' each image. If you open the layers palette you can drag the layer button from the active open image to the target image (the image itself, not its layers palette) and release. The layer will be added to the target.”
Don’t understand what the layers button is and can’t see where it is on the active image.
If I right click an image in the active folder of the organiser palette, there is no copy option(to then paste as new layer)
If I open up an image from the hard drive and copy it,right clicking in the edit workspace shows paste as new image greyed out with no option to paste as new layer