how to put the border around a headshot?

M77 wrote:

 > "Millenium" <jacevedo.DeleteThis@normandy.navy.mil> wrote in message
 > news:71cf9c9b.0312230801.60253d67@posting.google.com...
  > > here is an example of the frame i want to put around my headshot.. any
  > > idea of how to do it with photoshop 8?
  > >
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm</font</a>>
  > > thankds
 >
 > man, you other people are no help at all.
 >
 > you need to size down your image to the size you want it. find a 'sloppy'
 > border like the one in the sample (you'll have to do your own searching for
 > those). increase the white canvas to 8x10, then drag over the black sloppy
 > and line it up (use 'scale'). add the text to the bottom and you're done.
 > for a genuine headshot, you will want the white canvas on the bottom to be
 > bigger than on the top (see your sample). reverse borders also look cool.
 > that is when you have a white sloppy and black large canvas around it.
 >
 > and by the way, resolution on screen is rated in PIXELS per inch (ppi), not
 > dots (dpi), therefore you want your resolution set to 300ppi.

Use the rectangular marquee to form the border> inverse to capture border only>
background fill white puts in the white border> use the lasso tool to make the
sides of each of the "filed frames" after you have what you want fill these
with black do it on all 4 sides. You can use the lasso tool to make any other
interesting areas around the print. You can do this in PS and don't need to go
to second party sources. It isn't that hard. I think Adobe has a tutorial on
making a "ripped edge effect" that can be used for making the black border. If
any of this wasn't clear e-mail me. My address is functional. I would have
responded earlier but life has been hard lately
Peace
Stan
Visual Arts Photography<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:30:33 -0800, "M77" <Matt@*giantdork.com> wrote:
hicreproductions.com/4.htm

 >
 >man, you other people are no help at all.
 >

I hope you're kidding about that, cause several answers above are much
clearer than the one you provided.

 >
 >and by the way, resolution on screen is rated in PIXELS per inch (ppi), not
 >dots (dpi), therefore you want your resolution set to 300ppi.
 >

I'd ignore that statement. It is illogical as the two statements do
not belong in the same sentence. Just because you've added a
"therefore" does not make it true.

And I'll tell you why: the resolution of the monitor is usually about
72 to 96 ppi (divide the resolution you're running your monitor at by
the monitor's image area and you'll see).

So 300 ppi for a digital image has nothing to do with what the monitor
is displaying (unless you're designing web pages).

There's a much, much deeper reason for using 300 ppi for digital
images.


-- JC<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->