Adding a Border Effect
| Having spent a great deal of time creating your image what would look better than a nice border to finish it off. Photoshop provides you with the tools to make a whole range of different types of borders. Not all images are the same so you have to choose the type of border to suit your image. |
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| To start we need to increase the border around our image. First select the colour we want for our border as the background colour in your tool palette, in this case grey (Diagram 1). We then select Image > Canvas size and increase by approximately 5 per cent all around. Be sure to click on the centre square in the Canvas size box (Diagram 1a). |
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| Choosing the Rectangular Marquee Tool (diagram 2) short cut M on your keyboard. Tip... to toggle between the rectangular and oval marquee tools Press Shift + M. Select an area inside the border and approximately the same size as the border that we have just added to the image (diagram 3). We then inverse our selection Select > Inverse and Feather to a Radius of 10. |
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| Now to apply the border effect... select Filter > Distort> Glass (Diagram 4) and from the drop down menu choose Tiny Lens (Diagram 5) and adjust the Distortion to around 4 and a smoothness of 3. Why not try experimenting with the settings until you are happy with the effect. This can be seen in the Preview Window of the Filter dialogue. Now click OK to apply your new border and save. |
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| So your image is not of a car or motorbike and this style border would not suit your beautiful landscape. No problem. Follow all the steps up to Filter > Distort> Glass (Diagram 4) but instead of choosing Tiny Lens from the drop down menu select Frosted and adjust the setting until you are happy with the effect (Diagram 5a). You can also use any of the of glass filters for different styles of borders so why not try experimenting. |
Diagram 4a....
Cottage
Border