Photoshop borders
 

I'm relatively new to photography and Photoshop CS4. Everyone I talk to about how to set up borders for my shots has a different way to do it ............and they're all complicated. I'd also like to see how to apply a default border to all of my shots......
Any hel pfrom CS4 specialists would be very gratefully received.
Thasnks
Scott

borders
 

[quote=andrewgs22;2352]I'm relatively new to photography and Photoshop CS4. Everyone I talk to about how to set up borders for my shots has a different way to do it ............and they're all complicated. I'd also like to see how to apply a default border to all of my shots......
Any hel pfrom CS4 specialists would be very gratefully received.
Thasnks
Scott[/quote]


It depends on the type of border you mean a plain colour border is one of the easier things you can do in CS4 (its just the program has a steep learning curve) if you mean an art border check out the various free clip art sites

This site might help tho its a bit slow to load because of all the graphics

[URL]http://www.640pixels.com/articles/free-photo-borders-for-photoshop.aspx[/URL]

read the comments at the end for the mistake
and if you need to do a batch of pics just make it an action

I made an action which I can run to every picture I want to add a border too. That way it doesn't matter how complicated the actual process is - you only have to do it once.

In CS4 it's quite simple to do. Go to Image -> Canvas Size (Alt-Ctrl-C on the PC). You can expand the canvas by a set number of pixels or by a percentage. As an example put a tick in the relative box and expand the image size by 10%. You select the canvas extension colour too. Make sure the anchor point is central (as shown) otherwise the canvas extension will not be evenly spread around the image. You could add another colour around the first by doing it again with different colours and/or percentages.

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Norman has just explained (better than I could) exactly what I do - just save it as an action. I've even assigned a shortcut key to mine to make batch processing easier.