Add A Border With Adobe?
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Shouldn't that be obvious?
Thanks!
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Blue Moon
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>How do you add a 3-pixel black border around a picture with adobe photoshop?
>Shouldn't that be obvious?
>
>Thanks!
First of all, Adobe publishes a wonderful series of books that walk
you through all the various uses of their products. Look for
CLASSROOM IN A BOOK for the program you're using. In this case
Photoshop.
To answer your specific question, you use the rectangle selection
tool to outline where you want the box. Once you have the outline
of 'marching ants' on your screen, go to the menu bar
and select 'edit/stroke' and you'll bet a dialogue box that will
allow you to set the width of the border and other options.
Click 'apply' or 'okay' and you've got a border. This will work
with any of the 'selection' tools that leave an outline of
marching ants. Photoshop also has an option that allows printing
a border when you print out. Look in the printer dialogue
box for that option.
emat...@tomatoweb.com
Also, if you're using v.4 or v.5 with layers, you can fill a rectangle with a
solid color, go to 'contract' under 'select' menu, type in 3, and hit the
delete key. There's five or six other ways you can do this.
By the way, BlueMoon, I've discovered that those aren't really 'marching ants'
(I joke).
Erik Mattila
Blue Moon
>By the way, BlueMoon, I've discovered that those aren't really 'marching ants'
>(I joke).
Well, since you stuck you're neck out here, what are they?
Blue Moon
>Also, if you're using v.4 or v.5 with layers, you can fill a rectangle with a
>solid color, go to 'contract' under 'select' menu, type in 3, and hit the
>delete key. There's five or six other ways you can do this.
There are all sorts of ways to create borders containing various
elements -- like patterns you create yourself. But that kind of
stuff is beyond explaining in a simple explanation in this forum.
One of the strengths of PHOTOSHOP, IMO is the ability to do so
much creatively besides simple photo manipulations. I use Photoshop
for creating art work from scratch. The latest version 5.0 is
so much more powerful, especially when it comes to manipulating
text, than the older versions.
emat...@tomatoweb.com
nom...@aintnonesuch.com (Blue Moon) wrote:
> In article <7bf80s$e06$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, emat...@tomatoweb.com says...
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> >(I joke).
>
> Well, since you stuck you're neck out here, what are they?
>
Why, they're dancing ants. If you watch them long enough, instead of moving
on with the project, you can see that they are actually going nowhere.
Erik
emat...@tomatoweb.com
nom...@aintnonesuch.com (Blue Moon) wrote:
> In article <7bf80s$e06$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, emat...@tomatoweb.com says...
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I agree, V.5 knocks the socks off the previous. I've been using this product
since V.1 beta, and there's still many things I've never bothered to learn.
Your use of the define paths function, for example. It never occured to me
even though the menu item is there. I've also not learned to used the
masking functions, if you can believe that.
But I'm very interested in your thoughts about 'art' in relation to the
digital image. I mean by comparison to painting, drawing etc. I don't think
I've made the transference successfully from the paintbrush to the keyboard
and mouse, and I really hate grapic tablets (maybe I just didn't allow myself
to get used to them). I hate to say this, because I'm constructing images
daily on the computer -- it just seems so removed from my bias of what
constitutes artmaking. I think I have a deep-seated feeling that these images
are somehow counterfeit-- even though I rationally know that this isn't the
case.
Erik Mattila
Blue Moon
>Why, they're dancing ants. If you watch them long enough, instead of moving
>on with the project, you can see that they are actually going nowhere.
Aha! I'll buy that. From now on they're DANCING ANTS.
Much more interesting and less formal than marching ones.
Blue Moon
>I agree, V.5 knocks the socks off the previous. I've been using this product
>since V.1 beta, and there's still many things I've never bothered to learn.
If you really want to learn Photoshop, there is no better way than
to walk your way through the ADOBE publication, CLASSROOM IN A BOOK
for Photoshop 5.0. By the time you finish the book you will have
used every tool available in ways you might never have thought of.
I have nothing invested in Adobe other than all the time I've spent
using Photoshop, Pagemaker, and Illustrator. Photoshop is my
program of choice for creating art work from scratch. May not
be suitable to everyone's needs but fulfills mine.