Re: sloppy borders
2003-11-26 by Doug I.
Steve, As someone else said, everyone has a different style for these. Here's a somewhat convoluted method I came up with out of a similar desire to not spend $200 for canned-looking frames. It may at least give you a starting point: 1. add black border to pic if I couldn't include some in scan 2. expand canvas size ~1/4" all sides 3. marquee select original pic, including black border 4. create border selection of about 50 pixels 5. palette knife filter (~10/2/10 seems to work okay) to rough up edges 6. gaussian blur that 7. plastic wrap filter (~18/5/8 or 20/12/3) to get "flare" These work well enough and are independent of image size (vs. flatbed scanning an existing sloppy border), but obviously not the fastest! HTH, Doug
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> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:22:41 -0000 > From: "scrber" <stephen.bate@...> > Subject: sloppy borders... > > Hi Folks, i want to add some 'sloppy borders' (I think that is the > correct term, I mean a kind of rough medium/large format negative > edge) to some black and white wedding album prints. I have no idea > where I could get hold of such a frame (especially as I have never > shot medium format....I am using an S2) > Can anyone point me in the right direction (or would be good enough > to e-mail me a file.....) > > Many thanks > > Steve