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05/19/2006 01:34:47 PM · #1 |
| I have a pic that I want to place a border on. I usually use the stroke option in my Photoshop Elements but in this case I do nto want the border to take up any of my original pic (as it always seems to place the border within the pixels I am working with and not outside of the pic). Is it allowable for me to crop and expand the size of my pic with the sole intention of making that my border? Anyone know an easy and precise way of doing this within Elements? |
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05/19/2006 01:36:40 PM · #2 |
I don't know elements, but adjusting canvas size, you can change the "relative" size. works for me.
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05/19/2006 01:37:23 PM · #3 |
| Not sure if Elements will do this, but the most common way to place a border outside of the image without it digging into the image itself is to increase the canvas size by say 20 pixels on ech side in the color of your choice or in white, then resize back down to the final image size. |
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05/19/2006 01:39:36 PM · #4 |
| Thanks guys - that was what I was looking for |
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05/19/2006 01:45:13 PM · #5 |
What Brad suggests works fine for widish borders, but with narrow borders, beware: the screen can't resolve fractions-of-a-pixel, so if the the border is narrow you may get an imbalance when you resize. As an extreme example, I've added a 1-pixel border that way, long ago, and lost it on TWO sides on resizing...
The safest way to do it is this: PP your image and save as a psd file, then flatten it and resize it to 640 pixels minus twice the amount of the desired border width, then add the border back as described by Brad. So if you wanted a 3-pixel border all around, you'd resize to 634 pixels and add back 6 pixels of canvas size.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2006-05-19 13:45:39.
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