Screw my request...

[KoA]

Rate/Hate

Please remember that I'm not really any good at this. Be nice!

[Guest olla666]

Surprisingly decent. It's very simple, but pleasing to the eye. Don't forget a border, though.

[KoA]

This sounds noobish...How do I do a border?

I've not been at this long so you know...

[Guest olla666]

Don't worry, I had the same problems switching from GIMP to PS. Simply create a new layer, select all (Command/Control + A) and stroke (Edit + Stroke) to your liking (A 1px black border being the most simple).

[KoA]

I can't seem to do it, I click Layer, then New, then Layer again, and from there I can't work it out...

[DoubleX]

Here's what I do for borders:

1) Select the background layer

2) Ctrl+A

3) New layer

4) Select -> Modify -> Border...; set it at 1 pixel

5) Set colour to black, Edit -> Fill... (foreground colour)

Voila. Black 1 pixel border.

You can skip the first step, I just do it out of habit and I'm not sure why.

Edited June 23, 2007 by DoubleX

[KoA]

That stuff doesn't seem to come up in mine...I use CS1, I presume you don't, right?

[KoA]

Double post, nothing to see here...

EDIT: I've found what you mean, but nothing seems to come up when I do what you say. The outline for a bored comes up, but nothing more.

EDIT: I've done it! Thanks for your help, guys.

Here's an edited version with the border...

Edited June 23, 2007 by Chip Horton

[Guest olla666]

Perfect, just move the text up out of the corner a little bit.

[KoA]

Yeah, noticed that, and have done!

[Ignition]

I like it, but the red glow around the text ruins it a little bit more me. Try changing the colour of it to a darker red so it blends in with the background a little more, and make the opacity less...Also maybe try without a glow/drop shadow.

[Lord Nibbler]

Yeah, I'm not keen on the text at all. Also, you should blend the backgrounds together more, so you don't have such a hard line between the three pictures of Edge.

[Guest olla666]

I think the hard cut was the style, and it doesn't look too bad. I agree with what Ignition said, too.

[KoA]

Yeah, I'm not keen on the text at all. Also, you should blend the backgrounds together more, so you don't have such a hard line between the three pictures of Edge.

[Summers]

If you look at where you put the three photos of Edge, you can see the line of the join. The edge of the photo (mind the pun), if you will. If you blended, or even blurred, the line away, it'd look smoother.

[KoA]

How do I blend though, is it to do with the size of the pictures?

And if I blur it it all dissapears, if I fade the blur, you still see the lines.

[nufan]

the best way to blend i find is

1. use square marquee tool select area of photo

2. set feathering (ctrl + alt D) i think

3. Inverse selection (shift control i) once again thinking not in photoshop

4. Delete about four times

there is probably an easier way but yeah... this is the way i taught myself

[KoA]

Na, that doesn't work for me...Thanks though.

Anyone else have an idea?

EDIT: Maybe someone could save the picture to their computer, do it, and show me what you mean.

Edited June 24, 2007 by Chip Horton

[Guest olla666]

There's a method where you make a new white layer with a layer mask. On the layer mask, use the soft circular brush in black, and go down the line of the image you want to blend. Or something like that.

[KoA]

Hehehe I'm such a noob at this...

I'll put it this way: Huh?