The EASIEST way to create borders in CS3?

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Ive been doing Edit > Stroke, and its giving me black borders just fine, but I see lots of two tone borders on here, is there an easier way?

Cheers all! :thumbs:
 
You need to make a canvas larger than the image you have, drag the image onto the blank canvas. You can colour it any way you want using the separate layers.
 
Thanks for that, I dont doubt you at all, but is that *really* the easiest way? :)
 
Go to image/image size and play about with the settings and colours. You can also make one side of the frame larger than the other by altering the arrow settings.

edit; to get the border, increase the pixel/cm size
 
Betty said:
Thanks for that, I dont doubt you at all, but is that *really* the easiest way? :)
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The easist way is this. I have made an action for mine so that I don't have to do it every time. The widths I have given are suitable for the resized forum picture. If using for full size pic adjust numbers accordingly.

Edit - select all
  1. Edit- select all
  2. Reset swatches to default - just type D
  3. Exchange swatches - just type x (this gives white foreground, black background)
  4. Edit - Stroke, set width to 9 px, colour white, location inside, then OK
  5. Edit stroke - width 2px, colour black, location inside, then OK

You can always change the colours if you want, or the amount of pixels, as long as the first edit-stroke is more px than the second.
 
I shall give them all a go, thanks everyone :)

hillwalkinggirl, you might have to tell me how to create an action :D
 
Betty said:
I shall give them all a go, thanks everyone :)

hillwalkinggirl, you might have to tell me how to create an action :D
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Here we go then - it really is very easy.

  1. When you are ready to do the border Alt+f9 to bring up action palette.
  2. Click on create new action icon at bottom of palette.
  3. Give action a name e.g forum borders.
  4. Click record then just follow previous instructions I gave you for making the border.
  5. When finished press little square, bottom palette, on left. This stops recording.
  6. After you have finished, if you click on the little squares on each line of the action (the ones to the right of the tick) this will allow you to change colour, px width etc as the action runs.

To run the action just open the actions palette, chose the forum border action, click the little forward facing arrow at the bottom of the palette to run it. Your border will then be created automatically.
 
Don't forget that once you have a border that you like, you can save it as an action. So then that would be 2-3 mouse clicks. Surely that would then be easy enough. ;) :lol:
 
Wow, why have I never used the Action feature before? :D

Thanks so much!!!! :)
 
would it be a good idea if we could have a board to upload actions and scripts, and attach for download I have loads I could share that I have made eg borders, frames,mats, colour boosts, tones, allsorts of useable stuff
 
davenjulie said:
would it be a good idea if we could have a board to upload actions and scripts, and attach for download I have loads I could share that I have made eg borders, frames,mats, colour boosts, tones, allsorts of useable stuff
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A place for sharing stuff sounds good to me, but don't know how feasible that is, you may want to raise it with the higher powers.

That really makes Marcel sound quite godly :)
 
I think a action is the same as a macro so dont think you can upload them but i might be wrong?

With the two tone maybe create a new layer like they said but add a gradient through blending options which will give loads of different thing you can do multiple fades etc.
 
You are wrong... Actions can be saved and shared... They save to the **wait for it** "actions" folder in your CS3 directory...
 
hillwalkinggirl said:
The easist way is this. I have made an action for mine so that I don't have to do it every time. The widths I have given are suitable for the resized forum picture. If using for full size pic adjust numbers accordingly.

Edit - select all
  1. Edit- select all
  2. Reset swatches to default - just type D
  3. Exchange swatches - just type x (this gives white foreground, black background)
  4. Edit - Stroke, set width to 9 px, colour white, location inside, then OK
  5. Edit stroke - width 2px, colour black, location inside, then OK
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Don't get this at all, it's not working for me :shrug:
 
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