[jambajooz]

Does anyone know how to easily put borders on pictures? I can do this manually by going over it with a 2pt pencil but it takes a while. Any suggestions? Here is a sample. Notice how the pictures have borders on them:

http://www.techtv.com/animeunleashed/

Thanks!

[DesignerTerp]

Originally posted by jambajooz:
Does anyone know how to easily put borders on pictures? I can do this manually by going over it with a 2pt pencil but it takes a while. Any suggestions? Here is a sample. Notice how the pictures have borders on them:

http://www.techtv.com/animeunleashed/

Thanks!

What program are you using?
In Photoshop, create a new layer. On that layer take your square marquee tool and drag it over the entire canvas. Then go to Edit>Stroke and make it about 5 pixels-on the Outside. Make sure your foreground color is Black. There you go! Hope that helps.

[MikeM33]

Easiest way is if you have access to something like Illustrator, Freehand, Quark or InDesign. Just place/import the image and add whatever frame you want on it. Then (if you desire) you can save it as an EPS and just open it back up in Photoshop again and save it as a photoshop doc, eps, or tiff (or whatever).

MikeM

[andi*pandi]

in photoshop, if your graphic is already flat, select all <apple-a> then stroke as suggested above.

[godzookie2k]

I'll make an action for ya later and pop it up here if you really want. But do a record action of the following and then run it on a batch of images

select color you want for border

start recording

apple a

edit--->stroke

set stroke width and location

stop recording

thats it.

[jambajooz]

Hey thanks all for the tips! So I'm not familiar with the recording but I will give it a try. Does this work with all size and shapes of pics? (i.e. circles)

[B.I.L]

For circles you'll just need to draw a circle with the oval marquee tool, then apply a stroke to that.

If you want a 2 point frame set the stroke location to inside and width to 2 point. I don't know why you'd set it to outside. If you did that with a circle one it would look bad, as the edges would get cut off where the circle touches the edge of the image. Also, going from PS to another app back to PS seems pretty ridiculous.

If you want to record a set of commands, open the actions palette, from it's little menu choose new action, choose a name and hit ok. You'll then be recording. Do some stuff (in this case draw a stroke), then click stop. You can expand the items in the list to see exactly what commands have been recorded. Then you can highlight that action in the list and hit play to repeat the commands on other images.

Also, if you want to use the pencil for whatever reason (weird shapes perhaps), you can click a point on your image, hold shift, click somewhere else, and you'll get a straight line drawn between the two. You can do this for many points in a row and with any brush-type tool.

Don't forget the electronic help is a good resource.

[jambajooz]

Thanks B.I.L., for what program is this for? Photoshop?

Originally posted by B.I.L:
For circles you'll just need to draw a circle with the oval marquee tool, then apply a stroke to that.

If you want a 2 point frame set the stroke location to inside and width to 2 point. I don't know why you'd set it to outside. If you did that with a circle one it would look bad, as the edges would get cut off where the circle touches the edge of the image. Also, going from PS to another app back to PS seems pretty ridiculous.

If you want to record a set of commands, open the actions palette, from it's little menu choose new action, choose a name and hit ok. You'll then be recording. Do some stuff (in this case draw a stroke), then click stop. You can expand the items in the list to see exactly what commands have been recorded. Then you can highlight that action in the list and hit play to repeat the commands on other images.

Also, if you want to use the pencil for whatever reason (weird shapes perhaps), you can click a point on your image, hold shift, click somewhere else, and you'll get a straight line drawn between the two. You can do this for many points in a row and with any brush-type tool.

Don't forget the electronic help is a good resource.

[B.I.L]

Originally posted by jambajooz:
Thanks B.I.L., for what program is this for? Photoshop?

Yepper