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03/10/2006 07:44:38 AM · #1 |
| Is there a tutorial for adding borders anywhere for Photoshop/Gimp? I couldn't find one. |
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03/10/2006 07:50:53 AM · #2 |
| I don't think there's one here on DPC, but do a google search for "photoshop borders" and I bet you'll find lots and lots of them. |
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03/10/2006 07:52:42 AM · #3 |
It's not hard. In photoshop, bottom of toolbox, click on BG color square and choose a color.
Then go to image/canvas size, click the "realtive" checkbox, click the center square of 9, and select double the pixel-width you wish to add in the two data fields. If you want 5 pixels all around, set 10 pixels in the fields.
If you want a 2-color border, one outside the other, reset the BG color and do it again.
If you're doing it for a 640-pixel challenge entry, decide before resizing how wide a border you want and resize to 640 minus twice the border dimension; that is, with the 5-pixel border you'd resize to 630, and then add 10 pixels of border after that.
Robt.
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03/10/2006 07:57:35 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's not hard. In photoshop, bottom of toolbox, click on BG color square and choose a color.
Then go to image/canvas size, click the "realtive" checkbox, click the center square of 9, and select double the pixel-width you wish to add in the two data fields. If you want 5 pixels all around, set 10 pixels in the fields.
If you want a 2-color border, one outside the other, reset the BG color and do it again.
If you're doing it for a 640-pixel challenge entry, decide before resizing how wide a border you want and resize to 640 minus twice the border dimension; that is, with the 5-pixel border you'd resize to 630, and then add 10 pixels then of border after that.
Robt. |
Thanks I'll have a go when I get home. The problem I was having was I increased the canvas size, then 'select all' then 'shrink selection' by 10 pixels, then invert selection then fill the selection with a colour, but for sum reason it wouldn't fill, in fact I couldn't edit at all outside of the normal picture even though I had increased the canvas size.
Message edited by author 2006-03-10 07:58:49. |
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03/10/2006 07:58:16 AM · #5 |
Remember NOT to add text to challenge submissions. That will get you a DQ.
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03/10/2006 08:05:02 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by bluenova:
Thanks I'll have a go when I get home. The problem I was having was I increased the canvas size, then 'select all' then 'shrink selection' by 10 pixels, then invert selection then fill the selection with a colour, but for sum reason it wouldn't fill, in fact I couldn't edit at all outside of the normal picture even though I had increased the canvas size. |
Oh, that's a horrible way to go about it LOL. All sorts of complcations. I think if you're using CS2 photoshop, you can select the colors directly from the increase cnvas size dialogue box. In 7.0, which i still use, it uses the currently selected BG color. If you click on the BG color swatch, it will show a color picker. If you move the cursor over an area of the image, it becomes an eyedropper; you can actually pick a color IN the picture and it will set that as your BG color.
If you know you're gonna do a 2-color border, you can pick your BG and Foreground colors at the same time, and you can switch one to the other with the little 2-headed arrow between canvas increases.
R.
Message edited by author 2006-03-10 08:05:14.
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03/10/2006 08:07:38 AM · #7 |
| Thanks I'm using the Gimp, I used to have photoshop CS when I was still using Windows. I don't think I can set the background colour from the scale image dialog, but I'll check it out. |
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03/10/2006 09:21:37 AM · #8 |
There are a couple of way I add a border to my picture depending on if the border will interfere with an element of the picture or not. In the picture below (example one) is after editing and resized to 640x??? resized for web. I like the symmetry of the photo where the angled lines meet the edge of the photograph equally. So I donĂ¢€™t want to take away from that. I can add a border over the picture or add to canvas to see which looks better and keeping the balance.
Example One: Shows the picture without a border
Example Two. Shows a two borders in normal mode over the picture but it has taken away 20px of my image and has covered the part of the image I wanted to keep (where the angle lines meet the edge of the photograph).
Example Three: To avoid covering up the area I want to keep when I go to size for web instead of entering 640x??? I enter 620x???. Then I go to canvas size and add a 4px white border all around the image. Then I go back to canvas size and add a 16px black border around the image.
I know have the same border but I did not cover up the part of the image I wanted to preserve.
Message edited by author 2006-03-10 20:24:07.
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03/10/2006 09:36:02 AM · #9 |
Use a layer.
example in gimp, image 780x580
white border, 10px
resulting image 800x600
1. resize the image to 780x580
2. change the canvas size to 800x600 (center the image)
3. create a new white layer
4. duplicate the image layer
5. move up the new layer of the image.
voila
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03/10/2006 09:38:09 AM · #10 |
Thanks southern_exposure, some good tips there. Any body specifically do this with the GIMP? As the process seems to be a little differnt than for Photoshop.
:EDIT: Thanks AV4TAr, I posted to soon. I take it it's ok to do it with layers in basic editing?
Message edited by author 2006-03-10 09:52:45. |
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