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Old December 29th 03, 08:58 PM
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Default how to put the border around a headshot?



M77 wrote:

"Millenium" wrote in message
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here is an example of the frame i want to put around my headshot.. any
idea of how to do it with photoshop 8?

http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm
thankds


man, you other people are no help at all.

you need to size down your image to the size you want it. find a 'sloppy'
border like the one in the sample (you'll have to do your own searching for
those). increase the white canvas to 8x10, then drag over the black sloppy
and line it up (use 'scale'). add the text to the bottom and you're done.
for a genuine headshot, you will want the white canvas on the bottom to be
bigger than on the top (see your sample). reverse borders also look cool.
that is when you have a white sloppy and black large canvas around it.

and by the way, resolution on screen is rated in PIXELS per inch (ppi), not
dots (dpi), therefore you want your resolution set to 300ppi.


Use the rectangular marquee to form the border inverse to capture border only
background fill white puts in the white border use the lasso tool to make the
sides of each of the "filed frames" after you have what you want fill these
with black do it on all 4 sides. You can use the lasso tool to make any other
interesting areas around the print. You can do this in PS and don't need to go
to second party sources. It isn't that hard. I think Adobe has a tutorial on
making a "ripped edge effect" that can be used for making the black border. If
any of this wasn't clear e-mail me. My address is functional. I would have
responded earlier but life has been hard lately
Peace
Stan
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