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09/30/2006 07:57:35 PM · #1 |
Does anyone have tips on creating these type of frames with Photoshop? If you have an action set for it, that would be fine as well. Thanks!
Message edited by author 2006-09-30 19:58:54. |
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09/30/2006 08:31:30 PM · #2 |
It's actually pretty easy to do. The way I would go about it is to create guildelines where you want your border to start. The best way to do this is by going to View->New Guide and enter the values where you want the guidelines.
After your guides are set up, you can then snap to guides to make the border. After snapping is set up, select the rectangular marquee tool and marquee select INSIDE your new guides. Once the inside is selected, right click and click on Select Inverse. Now you should have a marquee that is where your border would be. Now you can create a new layer and do a paint bucket fill with your color of choice. Once you have filled the marquee area with a color, you can than mess with the opacity and blending modes to get the right look.
You can also skip the paint tool and use part of the image for the color. With your marquee still in place, and with the marquee tool selected, you can right click and select Layer via Copy. What this will do is make a new layer with only the parts selected in the marquee. Once you have this new layer you can apply blurs and such to get other types of styles. If you do any blur effects you should also make sure the marquee is around the border area. To reselect the marquee, Ctrl click on the new border layer and it will place the marquee around the border pixels to only blur that area.
This is basically what I would do. Let me know if you have questions...
Message edited by author 2006-09-30 20:42:02. |
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10/02/2006 11:21:42 PM · #3 |
Hi Morg002,
Thanks for taking the time to write! I appreciate your help!
I tried your method and works well. There's just one area that I haven't fully grasp. When it's time to put the accent/square highlight right before the new layer (blurred out), which tool should be used to create that red border square between the fully focused layer versus the new copied layer.. as seen here:
Thanks again.
====> What I tried was Edit-> Stroke, chose color and pixels to create a square around it. Is that one of the options? Or is there a better alternative? Thanks!
Message edited by author 2006-10-02 23:47:04. |
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10/03/2006 04:41:05 PM · #4 |
Edit -> Stroke works ok, but I would actually do that through layer styles as you will have more control over all the settings. This also makes it better if you want to change things later on.
You can add this by going to Layer -> Layer Style -> Stroke. You should also play with some of the other Layer Styles as they are a very useful tool in photoshop. Hope that helps. |
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