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Borders; Requested by Slay
Topic Started: Jun 9 2006, 05:39 PM (238 Views)
Apodae Swift
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Tutorial Name: Adrian Borders (I got the idea from him, where I actually get most of my graphics ideas from)
Tutorial Description: Making some nice borders for siugnatures, or other uses.
Program: Photoshop

Tutorial:

Ok I have been asked to make a tutorial for the border you can currently see in my signature. At least I think that's what I am suppose to be doing... Heck if it isn't I'll just do another. But for now enjoy this one.
I am going to go ahead and assume you know how to open a new image in photoshop. For this test I have used a width of 500px and a height of 100px.

1. Firstly you need to select your rectangle tool. Drag it accross the picture, making sure to hug the sides of the image.
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2. This is the rectangle. As you can see it hugs the edge of the picture. This is needed in order for it to work later on. Make sure it hugs the edges of the picture and doesn't spill over the sides.
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3. Now you need the rectangle tool again, this time you need to choose the "subtract from shape area" option.
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4. Then drag another box, this one though needs to be smaller then the one before it. I suggest using the cursor tool to actually define the width. To me it seems the perfect width, however it is a matter of choice.
Anyway this gives you your basic border.
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5. To make it a little more interesting double click the shapes name in the layers part to bring up the blending options. Then click the boxes to activate the "bevel and emboss" option and the "outer glow option". These can be experimented with to your hearts content. I find the standard quite nice, though I often change the outer glow colour or patter.
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There you have it. A nice little border for your pictures.

Oh and the whole hugging the sides of the picture thing. That was because if you don't do that then I find the bevel and embross doesn't work as well as it should.
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DeathMetalMusic
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The Jedi in Exile
Nice tut!
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Apodae Swift
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Thanks, I did some tweaking after posting it.
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Zero Hawkins

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Not exactly the one I wanted, I was thinking of that one with those lines all over, like you did in the topic I posted requesting it.

Good thing you made one for this anyways, I was going to have you make a tutorial for it anyways. lol. ^_^
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Darius Dellso
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Thank You! Your tutorial has been moved to the Completed Tutorial Section!
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Kife
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The Jedi in Exile
Very cool effect. I'll try it out someday.
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Iron Bonney
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Its a nice tut , but there is a much simpler way to do borders.
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