HOw to create a border with text please?

[Diego Garcia]

HI,

I love those borders people can create with text, sort of summarising the image. However, I have no idea how to do it.

I have Photoshop CS2 and wondered if someone could provide a brief summary of how to do it.

I especially like the white border with a black inner part, somewhat liek a stylish postcard.

Thanks,

Diego.:D

[matty]

Hi Diego

2 ways to do it, you can either increase Canvas size

Image>canvas size

this allows you to set the size of the background, leaving your original image intact, this gives you a border of whatever size and colour you require, you can then use the text tool to add your text

or

Stroke
this is another method, right click> select all >stroke, you can set this to any size but it will cover your image to whatever size you use.

Have a play and see how you get on, and i will find the simple borders tutorial we have here

[Marianne]

The way I do it to use the canvas size. if you make a stroke too big you get curved corners.I am asuming your image is about 800 pixels wide. Right click on the blue bit on the top of the image to get the canvas size dialogue box up, yo make the fine line I increase the pixel size by about 3 pixels using a pale/bright colour from the image click ok, then I do the same but I increase the canvas size by about half a centimetre using a darker colour from the image, click ok. I always use a text box and drag it out to fit the image, choose where I want the text to sit, left, centre or right, type my text using maybe the colour of the fine border, I then lessen the opacity of the text layer to soften the impact. If this doesn't make sense then do please ask questions and I'll do my best to help :)

[Diego Garcia]

Thanks a lot everyone.

Just had a go and came up with this.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/5200/tramp13yd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Marianne]

you didn't need help.....looks good ;)

[matty]

aye thats it, nice

[Diego Garcia]

Always need help :)

Thanks again!

Diego.

[Venomator]

Soon to be master eh ?

Thought you were going for text actually in the border though ?

[matty]

ah but he has Rog!

[Hacker]

I found the easiest way is get the crop tool, select the whole image with it and then move the pointers out, takes seconds.

[Marianne]

I found the easiest way is get the crop tool, select the whole image with it and then move the pointers out, takes seconds.
you must have already dragged your image onto another layer which was larger than the photo to do this, otherwise, when you flatten the image the extra space would disappear...

[Fangman]

Am I looking at the next tutorial at Club?

[Ransom]

Ive been searching for this thread all day lol.

carnt wait to try this tonight

[Matt]

There's a guide in the tutorials section HERE (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1350)

When using the stroke tool, always make sure its set to iniside.
If its not set to inside you don't get nice clean corners in the framing.

HTH :thumbs: