Quick and easy border action/tutorial for PS

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Very nice but I'm looking for the Museum type window mat with a bevel inside. Anyone have an action for that?
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Excellent.. Thank you.

Add me to the list as I am pretty new to PS and always looking for tidbits.

Thanks

Bobster wrote in post #5833067
there are too many steps in that..

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1. The first border --- Image>Canvas Size -- click the Relative box and put 2px in for height and width, you'll see at the bottom of the dialogue box there's a box at the bottom for Canvas Extension Color, Select Black, hit ok

2. The second border --- Image>Canvas Size -- put 6px in both boxes and choose White for the Canvas Extension Colour, hit ok

3. The third border --- Image>Canvas Size -- put 50px in both boxes and choose Black for the Canvas Extension Colour, hit ok

Additional - before you do the above

1. resize image from high res -- File>Automate>Fit Image.. put 742 in both height and width (742, as alot of sites prefer 800px as the largest pixel size, if you choose 800, then the time you've added the border you'll be @ 850px)

2. Sharpening -- Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen, then

3. Edit>Fade Sharpen (60%, mode luminosity)

Alrighty, i got my border done with this method, it was really easy. How do i save it? Is there a way that i can one click and add the border? Can i add to more than one poto at once?

Never Mind I Got it....Thanks Bob!

thanks

Thanks for your tutorial, very useful!

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This worked fine on the 1st picture, but when I use it on other pictures, the border does not come out the same size (usually much thinner or barely visible) and the logo/copyright does not show up. Do all the pictures have to be the same size before you apply the action?

the same pixel dimensions will help

ie 800x533 or 533x800, 400x300 etc

if you record an action on an image that is 800x533 and then do the same action on an image 3400x2132, its gonna be pretty small border

so in my web border command i have it resize to the dimensions i want first

Do you have an action you can share?

offtheroad wrote in post #7343219
Do you have an action you can share?

create new action -

1. resize image from high res -- File> Automate> Fit Image.. put 742 in both height and width (742, as alot of sites prefer 800px as the largest pixel size, if you choose 800, then the time you've added the border you'll be @ 850px)
   
2. Sharpening -- Filter> Sharpen> Sharpen
   
3. Edit> Fade Sharpen (60%, mode luminosity)
   
4. The first border --- Image> Canvas Size -- click the Relative box and put 2px in for height and width, you'll see at the bottom of the dialogue box there's a box at the bottom for Canvas Extension Color, Select Black, hit ok
   
5. The second border --- Image> Canvas Size -- put 6px in both boxes and choose White for the Canvas Extension Colour, hit ok
   
6. The third border --- Image> Canvas Size -- put 50px in both boxes and choose Black for the Canvas Extension Colour, hit ok

This was so simple! Thank you so much for sharing, Scott!

I apologize if this is a totally basic question, but I am very inexperienced with photoshop.

Everything works fine when I try to do these borders, if I want a plain white border. I cannot find the canvas extention colors, or the relative box.

What am I missing? I'm using photoshop 6, but it's an educational version my wife had from school.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Nice tut!