Tutorial to Create a Bordered Watermark Action

Livinthalife wrote:
Im here to revive this thread with my BIG Q! lol

Well my first try using the border tutorial went well

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But my second one went to crap!

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Any reccomendations when using it against a White BG? or should I not even use a border for that style photo. (The orginal was a high key photo)

Whoa....that's weird. I've used this same style with white backgrounds before and it worked fine. My guess is that the layer with your person is transparent and has an underlying white background layer?

**** I guess I didn't mention this in the original tutorial but when you're creating the action the first step should be to flatten the image. ******

Well that's the thing. The orginal is already jpeg, no layers or anything.I'm thinking that white bg is too close to the white border? I dont know. I will expirement with some other things.

add. Well I tried again with a few more, it seems like it fills any blown out areas on my photos. Guess I need to stop blowing parts of my photo

for me, i've tried it and the first photo comes out perfect. but when the same is applied the second.. my logo on the bottom covers part of the picture. should i resize the logo first to be smaller?

Livinthalife wrote:
Well that's the thing. The orginal is already jpeg, no layers or anything.I'm thinking that white bg is too close to the white border? I dont know. I will expirement with some other things.

add. Well I tried again with a few more, it seems like it fills any blown out areas on my photos. Guess I need to stop blowing parts of my photo

because when you're filling the border in (with the paint bucket?) it's too close to the same colour... so the image gets filled in too.

Try re-sizing the canvas size instead, then you can choose the colour. I always use the canvas size.

One odd thing I've found is that unless the image is "maximized" in photoshop the resizing, etc can do some weird things. So try running the action with the image maximized to take up the full screen. Otherwise, are you resizing the logo when it is placed into the image?

actually, the logo size is still the same, it's not resized. so how can i run it so the photo is maximized?

Nice tutorial, I will try it later.

You need to try the command "Fit Image" instead of using two actions for horizontal/vertical. Go to File/ Automate / Fit Image then use the bigger size you want. By instance width 800 Height 800.

LuisE

So 'fit image' lets you choose what the image is to be 'fitted' into? So, for all my web-images that I want to be 640px on the longest side, regardless of portrait/landscape orientation, I would shoose 640px in that 'fit image' ?

I cant check as I'ma t work at the mo'!

Hmmm, fit image does work nicely but I still have two problems when changing the action (into a one-size fits all). 1) I need a way to change the file from Xdpi to 72dpi and 2) I still need to be able to expand the canvas proportionately (which I'm sure there's a way of doing since default photoshop actions do this).

Any suggestions?

Hmmm, I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do.

sando wrote:
So 'fit image' lets you choose what the image is to be 'fitted' into? So, for all my web-images that I want to be 640px on the longest side, regardless of portrait/landscape orientation, I would shoose 640px in that 'fit image' ?

I cant check as I'ma t work at the mo'!

Yes.

thanks! very good tutorial!!

Okay, after doing that 'fit image' bit. I would suggest going into 'resize image' > uncheck the 're-sample image box > change the resolution to 72 > click OK. The image wont change size but the resolution will.

I dont quite know what you mean by I still need to be able to expand the canvas proportionately - do you create the border and then resize it all after it's flattened?

Yes, I create a thin white border first and then expand the canvas which gives me the larger black border around the edge.

That's basically what I do... but I re-size to 640px before I create the border. My bordered pics are for the web, whereas the full sized edits are the ones I keep 'as-is' for if i crop to print.