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[Tono]

How do I add borders, or whatever they're called, to a photo?

Like this:



I didn't take that shot, just using is as an example of what I'm looking for.

[Revenant]

Tono wrote: How do I add borders, or whatever they're called, to a photo?

Like this:



I didn't take that shot, just using is as an example of what I'm looking for.

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-12/qid=1163493090/ref=sr_1_12/601-3795405-7986513?ie=UTF8&asin=B000GAB0K8

Should work.

[The Grandmaster]

That won’t be difficult at all. There are many, many ways it can be done. I will go ahead and walk you through one way that should be pretty intuitive.

Lets start with this girl and chessboard, two things I like.



First, go up to the toolbar, and select from the “Image” menu, Image Size.



This will allow you to see how large your picture is, in pixels. It will have the dimensions in “Image Size.



Here we can see my girl and chessboard is 371 pixels wide by 324 pixels tall. It won’t actually put these numbers on the pic like it did here, this is just an illustration for effect.

So lets go ahead and make a new file, which will be larger than this pic, and then we can crop accordingly around the picture to get he border we want.

Go to File>>New. A popup will appear. Type in a size for the new file. Make sure it is larger than the image you want to have a border for, by a fair amount. This way, you can simply crop around the image, leaving some of the background form the new file behind the image to serve as the border. Make sure you choose RGB color.

When you have the new file, fill it with Black to get the border from your example. The quickest way to do this is with the file active, type “d” then hit “ALT+Backspace” and your file will be black. The “D” set the colors to the default which is black and white, and the “Alt+Backspace” fills it with black.

Now, make your picture active again, and hit the “V” key. This selects the “move” tool. Then, just drag your picture to the new file. Just drag it on top of it.



Now your image should be the top layer in the new file. Simply go to the Crop tool...

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And select it. Draw a box around the picture, within the black area, leaving as much border as you'd like,



and when done, hit "enter." you should have just cropped your new image around the original image, leaving a black border.

I above image represents drawing a nice box around your picture, but within the black area, with the crop tool.

You're almost there. Now, double click on the top layer of your new file, the one containing your photograph.



This will bring up the layer syle dialogue box. Check "Stroke." This will put a colored border around your image, like in the example. Then, select the stroke option after you check it, to bring up it's features. Just click the "Stroke" text next to the checkbox. To the right you should see a "color" selection box. Change it to white, or the desired border color.

That ought to do it. You'll have your photo with a white line border, encased in a large black border if all went well.

[Tono]

Holy crap! Thanks. If you're not making money off of ps, you should be.

[The Grandmaster]

Tono wrote: Holy crap! Thanks. If you're not making money off of ps, you should be.

That's what I do. :wink:

Multimedia Developer/3D Illustrator. Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and Flash are how I make my money. :-D

[NAB]

The Grandmaster wrote: Tono wrote: Holy crap! Thanks. If you're not making money off of ps, you should be.

That's what I do. :wink:

Multimedia Developer/3D Illustrator. Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and Flash are how I make my money. :-D

That seemed like a pretty easy way to do it, but you could have also just duplicated the layer, and increased the canvas size and filled the background with black, and then stoked the duplicated layer.

Everyone's got their ways. :wink:

[The Grandmaster]

NAB wrote: The Grandmaster wrote: Tono wrote: Holy crap! Thanks. If you're not making money off of ps, you should be.

That's what I do. :wink:

Multimedia Developer/3D Illustrator. Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and Flash are how I make my money. :-D

That seemed like a pretty easy way to do it, but you could have also just duplicated the layer, and increased the canvas size and filled the background with black, and then stoked the duplicated layer.

Everyone's got their ways. :wink:

Yup. That was the first thing I thought of, and that's how I would do it, yes. But for Tono, I thought it might be more confusing, and also more difficult to write a tutorial for. I would simply use the crop tool to crop outside the file border, then reselect my image, hit cntrl+J to duplicate it on its own layer, then filled my background with black if it were me.

[NAB]

The Grandmaster wrote: NAB wrote: The Grandmaster wrote: Tono wrote: Holy crap! Thanks. If you're not making money off of ps, you should be.

That's what I do. :wink:

Multimedia Developer/3D Illustrator. Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and Flash are how I make my money. :-D

That seemed like a pretty easy way to do it, but you could have also just duplicated the layer, and increased the canvas size and filled the background with black, and then stoked the duplicated layer.

Everyone's got their ways. :wink:

Yup. That was the first thing I thought of, and that's how I would do it, yes. But for Tono, I thought it might be more confusing, and also more difficult to write a tutorial for. I would simply use the crop tool to crop outside the file border, then reselect my image, hit cntrl+J to duplicate it on its own layer, then filled my background with black if it were me.

Fair enough. Btw, you did a nice job on your tutorial. :tu:

[The Grandmaster]

NAB wrote: The Grandmaster wrote: NAB wrote: The Grandmaster wrote: Tono wrote: Holy crap! Thanks. If you're not making money off of ps, you should be.

That's what I do. :wink:

Multimedia Developer/3D Illustrator. Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and Flash are how I make my money. :-D

That seemed like a pretty easy way to do it, but you could have also just duplicated the layer, and increased the canvas size and filled the background with black, and then stoked the duplicated layer.

Everyone's got their ways. :wink:

Yup. That was the first thing I thought of, and that's how I would do it, yes. But for Tono, I thought it might be more confusing, and also more difficult to write a tutorial for. I would simply use the crop tool to crop outside the file border, then reselect my image, hit cntrl+J to duplicate it on its own layer, then filled my background with black if it were me.

Fair enough. Btw, you did a nice job on your tutorial. :tu:

Thanks. I expecially like the girl and the chessboard. :wink:

[The Newb]

or you can use the stroke tool to do it, under file or edit if i was on my machine i could tell ya if you wait till tommorow ill give ya specifics, unless grand tells ya

[TheGirlNextDoor]

Or you can send someone that knows what they're doing a .jpg and beg them to do one for you.

That's what I do. :shifty:

Speaking of.. I'm still waiting on an avatar... :think:

[The Newb]

TheGirlNextDoor wrote: Or you can send someone that knows what they're doing a .jpg and beg them to do one for you.

That's what I do. :shifty:

Speaking of.. I'm still waiting on an avatar... :think:

actually yeah i could if he wanted he could tell me what he wanted and id do it when i had the time

[The Grandmaster]

TheGirlNextDoor wrote: Or you can send someone that knows what they're doing a .jpg and beg them to do one for you.

That's what I do. :shifty:

Speaking of.. I'm still waiting on an avatar... :think:

:!oops:

well...well err...

They are easy to make...it's just I'm having a hard time coming up with an idea of what to make for you. I...I'll make more of an effort.