Borders: It is suggested that if you decide to use a border, you should only use one or two solid colors around the outside of your photo. However, alternative borders are allowed, as long as they do not contain any text, clip art, photographs, or other artwork.
Pretty clear, but I just wanted to check if this is alright.
Use the selection tool in PS to select an area, invert the selection, and then fill it, adjusting opacity...is that alright to do?
IMO, no because you are changing pixels. If you want to add a border you have to do it around the picture, not in it, as in adding pixels. Does that make sense?
Does anyone know how I can get a border in basic that is larger on the top and one side within legal?
I'm not really sure offhand, just thought I'd comment that voters here usually don't dig a deistracting border, so be careful with whatever you do. Whether it's legal or not might not be the most important aspect of it.
Does anyone know how I can get a border in basic that is larger on the top and one side within legal?
I'm not really sure offhand, just thought I'd comment that voters here usually don't dig a deistracting border, so be careful with whatever you do. Whether it's legal or not might not be the most important aspect of it.
I know, but I really like this image and I think it works with a different border. I'm not really concerned with my score, because I'm proud of my photo.
Does anyone know how I can get a border in basic that is larger on the top and one side within legal?
It is easy enough to do in Photoshop.
1-Select desired border color and make it the background color
2-Select Image->Canvas Size
3-Click once on the corner opposite the two sides you want to add a border to.
3-Add the number of pixels you want to add to the canvas size for each side. There will be a border on only two sides. Border will have background color.
The border tool in PSP let's you set each on the 4 sides of your border separately if you like. Or, you could add a border of the largest dimension on all four sides and then crop some off the sides that you wanted to be the smaller deminsion.
If you want to "fade" the outer portion of the image to act as a frame, follow these steps (in Photoshop):
-Select as the Foreground Color whatever color you want to overlay on the image
-SelectAll
-Edit > Stroke (Options: Inside; Pixels = [Thickness you want]; Foreground Color; Opacity = [effect you want])
-Undo and redo with new options until desired effect is achieved.
