Borders and Signatures...HOW ?

[LeesaB]

How do you create them?

[Rachellebee27]

In photoshop. Do you mean the signatures like watermarks or that a lot of people have at the bottom of their photo's? Either way, it's easy with photoshop.

I created this by using the freestyle shape too for the copyright symbol, while holding shift so it'd be perfectly round, then rasterizing it, converting the layer style to hard light, and embossing it about 5 pixels @100% and reducing to about 10% opacity. I repeated the same process with the "Photography by Kaylene" and copyright symbol there, accept I left it around 40% opacity. I saves these two as separate layers in a .psd, so that I can use it easily on all of my photo's that I publish or post to the web.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f210/steelek27/webIMG_7856.jpg

HTH,

[LeesaB]

I think that may be part of it, but in a thread a few down from this one is Borders and Signatures that asks everyone to show theirs...they are pretty cool..and make a photograph stand out when shown on the web. I wondered how everyone does it.

THanks...

[RangerRick]

How do you create them?

Here (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=265798) is how I do mine. :)

[Rachellebee27]

Yeah I saw that right after I posted this, LOL! You just have to get creative, and having friends who are design freaks (in a good way ;) ) or having talents in those fields helps too... I took me a good 4 days to design my business cards, and I can't tell you how many trial and errors I went through before things started to flow.

How to make that black border is pretty easy too, just use your rectangle marque, measure it a certain distance from the edges, and add a new layer adding black on the outside, click inside it with the magic wand and stroke inside about 5 pixels (experiment around until it looks right to you) then add special touches as you like, save the top layer and reuse for multiple pics so you don't have to redesign over and over...

HTH

[Tish]

Now that's a timely question! A local photographer has a teaching blog and that's exactly what he addressed today:

http://www.corysphotoschool.blogspot.com/

He's posted step by step instructions for doing this in PS CS2.

(for those looking at these posts eons down the road, the entry is March 19th)

[RangerRick]

How to make that black border is pretty easy too, just use your rectangle marque, measure it a certain distance from the edges, and add a new layer adding black on the outside, click inside it with the magic wand and stroke inside about 5 pixels (experiment around until it looks right to you) then add special touches as you like, save the top layer and reuse for multiple pics so you don't have to redesign over and over...
HTH

Hey Kaylene,
If all you need is a black border... here's one more way.

Make a "layer style" using a "stroke". (Drop shadow is at the top... and it's last on that list.) Add a stoke to the pic with it's position listed as the "inside." (If you use "outside" then the corners get rounded.) Say 65 pixels. Black as the color. (Try some of the gradients too... they can be kinda cool.) Only down side... is that it covers so of the pic... so crop accordingly.

my 2 cents,

[Rachellebee27]

Haha, I meant that the smaller stroke should be an opposite color...

[moviemaker]

Take a look at Brewsters post on this thread. It explains in both words and pictures

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=281524&page=10

[CyberPet]

I'm doing it this way - saving it as an action:

1. Canvas Size - click the box "Relative"
2. Set the width and height to 2 pixles each (that makes 1 pixle frame)
3. Set White as Canvas extension color - Click OK
4. Go back to Canvas Size
5. Set width and height to 20 pixles each
6. Set Black as Canvas extension color - Click OK

If I want to add my logo to it, I continue here:
7. Go back To Canvas Size
8. Set 20 for Height - zero for width
9. Click the position box to be in the top middle instead of total middle (and make sure black is still the canvas extension colors) - Klick OK.
10. Place my logo into the image as a Smart object
11. Select the layers - Align Center + Align Bottom
12. When the logo is now in the middle and at the bottom edge, I use the arrow keys on my keyboard to nudge it up a few steps to come off the edge
13. Add type the same way - nuding it to the right place after having it aligned to the edges.
14. Flatten the image and done we are!

PS. If you get inconsistant results, make sure that resolution (dpi) is the same each time, so it might be worth adding a first step in the action, to change any dpi to standard 72 dpi for screen resolution. I usually do that if my action also contain a resize and sharpning.

[gkwood]

Thanks Cyberpet , i have tried saving it as an action but it always went wrong , but i did not check the box relative duh thanks Again

[Tiffany]

I do it like Petra does - use canvas size.

[ImagineTNT]

I created a tutorial for this a while back: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=181847