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    Adobe Photoshop

    Adding Photographic Edges in Photoshop with Julieanne Kost


    Software needed Adobe Photoshop 5.0 or later

    There are multiple manufacturers of photographic and painterly edges and frames that you can purchase
    to apply to your images. However, this technique shows you how to make your own borders and apply
    them to your images. We’ll use a simple black and white painterly edge effect, but this technique can be
    applied to any variety of edges.

    Create the edge. The great thing is that edges


    can be made from almost anything and are
    only as limited as your imagination! To create
    this edge, I used a little bit of black paint with a
    relatively dry brush on some cold press water-
    color paper. Note: since I knew the proportions
    for this image needed to be 3.5:2 to fit in this tem-
    plate, I measured the dimensions and marked
    them with pencil to help aid me to paint in the
    correct areas. I later erased the pencil marks.

    Scan the image. Using a flatbed scanner, scan


    the edge that you created, and open the file in
    Photoshop. Note: It helps to know the final size
    of the image before you scan so you don’t end up
    having to rescan later because it was too small
    or wasting time working with a file that is larger
    than you need.

    Open the photograph. Open the image that


    you want to add the scanned edge to.

    1
    Combine the two files. Make sure that both
    of the images are visible. From the Tool box,
    select the Move tool and click on the edge file
    to make sure that it is the active file. Click and
    drag the edge image on top of the other image.
    When the move tool is positioned above the
    other image, a highlight will appear to provide
    feedback that you can let go of the mouse to
    “drop the image”.

    Reposition the Edge layer. If the top layer of


    the other image wasn’t selected before drag-
    ging and dropping the edge file into the art-
    work, now is the time to reposition it. In the
    Layers palette, select the Edge layer and drag it
    to the top of the layer stack.

    Eliminating the black center. If the center of


    the Edge image is black like in this example, set
    the Edge layer’s Blend Mode to Screen. This
    causes the black area to be hidden, (revealing
    the image) and the white areas to remain white
    (hiding the image) creating the edge effect.

    Reverse the effect. If you prefer the image to


    appear in the center, and the edges to be black,
    in the Layers palette, target the Edge layer and
    select Image > Adjust > Invert. This invert the
    edge making the white areas black and the
    black areas white. In the Layers palette, set the
    edge layer’s Blend Mode to Multiply.

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