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Re: [Digital BW] Borders in Photoshop

2005-11-09 by Carolyn Frayn

new layer
control click an image later to select
 >edit>stroke>select a pixel width>select "inside">select color

or
new layer, so that you aren't working from a flattened file (so that  
you can change border color later)
 >canvas size>make  canvas size larger both width and length the  
pixel border you desire (choose multiples of 2)>select centered
then put new blank later underneath your image file layer
fill with whatever color you desire.

or
working from a flattened file
pick a background color first, this will dictate the extra canvas color
then do the canvas size thing above

C

On 9-Nov-05, at 11:47 AM, Steve Kale wrote:

> A quick question re selecting an image border in PS CS2 (hopefully  
> not too off-topic).  Is
> there a way to select a certain pixel-width image border and fill  
> that without a feather?  I
> have tried Select All, Modify -> Border, Fill -> Black but that  
> feathers the fill (changing the
> Feather setting prior to the Fill doesn't change anything.

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