#149
2008-04-02 18:11 GMT
Was going to post these tutorials in the tutorials section but they maybe to basic - Will leave it to you admins :P
Big Border
By Cadet 2003
1. Make your background image, for this tutorial i shall use this image
2. Create a new layer and make sure it is the top layer as shown
3. Use the paint bucket tool to fill the layer white
4. Use the "rectangular marquee tool"
and cut a rectangle out ( leaving about 1cm of border )
5.Select the "Polygonal lasso tool"
6. Then start cutting the way you want the border to be, Make sure you hold shift when moving from point to point, to make sure you get straight lines.
7. Press delete to cut away the excess border and press "ctrl" and "d" to deselect
8. Right click your border layer and go to blending oprions. ( or go to Layer --> Layer style --> Blending options
9. use the following settings
DROP SHADOW - default settings
INNER GLOW - set colour to white
BEVELAND EMBOSS - set size to 1
CONTOUR - default settings
GRADIENT OVERLAY - select the shown gradient from the gradient list
STROKE - set size to 1 and set colour to black
Now you can stop there and should have something along the lines of this.
or you can go on to add a little more detail by cutting more sections out of your border.
As you can see maybe i should have stopped whilst i was ahead :P , but it was just to give you the general idea.
Cadet
Big Border
By Cadet 2003
1. Make your background image, for this tutorial i shall use this image
2. Create a new layer and make sure it is the top layer as shown
3. Use the paint bucket tool to fill the layer white
4. Use the "rectangular marquee tool"
and cut a rectangle out ( leaving about 1cm of border )5.Select the "Polygonal lasso tool"
6. Then start cutting the way you want the border to be, Make sure you hold shift when moving from point to point, to make sure you get straight lines.
7. Press delete to cut away the excess border and press "ctrl" and "d" to deselect
8. Right click your border layer and go to blending oprions. ( or go to Layer --> Layer style --> Blending options
9. use the following settings
DROP SHADOW - default settings
INNER GLOW - set colour to white
BEVELAND EMBOSS - set size to 1
CONTOUR - default settings
GRADIENT OVERLAY - select the shown gradient from the gradient list
STROKE - set size to 1 and set colour to black
Now you can stop there and should have something along the lines of this.
or you can go on to add a little more detail by cutting more sections out of your border.
As you can see maybe i should have stopped whilst i was ahead :P , but it was just to give you the general idea.
Cadet
