It’s been a
while since we dealt with applying borders. What a funny pastime! The
possibilities are endless, imagination can soar. Now we’ll show you a
bit more freely interpreted and frivolous border which takes a little
craft of the hand and you’ll need your imagination as well.
Nevertheless, it’s definitely worth the effort.
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1.
Load the photo
There's
a lot of space at the top and the bottom of this photo while
we are a bit limited on the sides due to the accentuated
themes (ship, island). Well, what if we get a little crazy
and apply borders in a way that they lap over the back of
the ship and the right side of the island?
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2.
Let’s paint a mask.
First
of all, you need to select the parts that will run over
the borders. Let’s use a manual method, namely the Quick
Mask mode.
Click the framed icon at the bottom of the toolbar and then
choose a medium-sized brush. 15-30 pixels
will do. It is better if the brush has
sharp edges rather than soft ones. I suggest that you enlarge
the preview – it will be easier to work with it. Paint a
mask onto the parts you would like to lap over the wide
borders. Now shift to a smaller brush size (cca. 2-5
pixels) and paint the finer details as well. In
case of a blunder, you can easily delete things with the
rubber in the third line.
We selected the right side of the island and — to keep the
symmetry of the picture — the tail of the ship on the other
side.
Once you’ve finished, click on the button right
to the framed Quick Mask (bottom of toolbar), and
so you’ll get back to normal view. The
painted areas will be gone. Or rather, they have turned
into a marquee. The whole picture will
be selected except for these two sections.
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3.
The edges of he border
Select
the border area. It is useful to turn on the rulers (View/Rulers)
when you do the next steps. Click on the upper measuring
line and draw a horizontal guideline as
far as you want to last the top and the bottom of the border.
Then click on the left-side ruler and drag
the mouse onto the picture thereby creating a vertical line
between the top and bottom of the border. Since the selected
two areas will overlap these parts, try not to draw the
borders inside the selected area. You can see the selected
vertical guidelines in the photo above. This is the inner
side of the border. The dashed line on the ship and the
island show the edges of the area you painted during the
previous step.
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4.
The inner “circle”
As
we selected the whole picture with the first two steps —
except the two painted areas — we now need to narrow down
the selected area and convert it into a border. The guidelines
will be of help here. Select the rectangular marquee
tool and then click on the third icon (Substract
from selection) in the upper options toolbar. This
way you can cut out a part from an existing selection. Now
draw a rectangle around the picture area outlined by the
guidelines. Cut out this area from the selection and now
only the wide border will be part of this. Neither the tail
of the ship nor the right side of the island is part of
the selection.
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5.
Set you free
You’ve
got the selected area. In fact, you can do with it whatever
you like. You can fill it with any color, you can blur or
switch to inverse colors. Possibilities are practically
infinite.
We opted for brightening here. We used Image/Adjustments/Levels
for this. On the bottom of the dialog, we dragged the black
arrow on the Output Levels slider to the
right until the borders got light enough.
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6.
Narrow spaces
The
remaining selection outlines can be removed by hitting Ctrl+D,
while the irrelevant guidelines will disappear by using
the View / Clear Guides menu. The result
is a typical border with a bit of a funky touch to it. The
picture elements sticking out of the borders add a special
mood and the feeling of extra space.
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