![]() Once again, it is fun to add your own spin to your images. I hope to be able to create some more nice painterly brushes as I learn more about the various settings. Try different base brushes and playing with the Brush Panel settings. I hope you will be able to enjoy painting borders just like this one. ![]() Since I am pretty new with creating videos, just bear with me on this, but I do like the brush created in it. (Does not show up in RSS Feed – need to open blog to run You Tube Video.) ![]() Below is a video link showing how I created the second image’s border using the basic steps above. Experiment with the pattern as this can really help blend the border into the photo if a plug-in was used to add the effect. Contour was check with Range 25% and Texture Pattern was set to a Gesso Pattern by John Derry at Scale of 250% and Depth of +75%. The above border was set to Style Inner Bevel, Depth 75% and Size 17 pixels. This can make creating the border very fast.Īs a last optional step, add a Bevel and Emboss layer style (double click on the black part of the layer in the Layer panel) and click on the words Bevel and Emboss. A quick tip is that if you hold how the E tool very quickly and paint, it will return to the Paintbrush Tool when you release the key. Now go back and forth between the Paintbrush Tool (B) and the Eraser Tool (E) until you get the border you want. All brushes in the Brush Preset Panel can be used with any type of brush tool – eraser, smudge, sharpen, mixer, clone stamp, pattern stamp, etc. This creates a really nice natural edge look. I set the brush size a little less in the Eraser Tool and painted back around the painted border rough edges. While still on the border layer, this time switch to the Eraser Tool and select the same brush from the Brush Preset Panel. Select the Paintbrush Tool using a similar brush that was used to paint in the image, (or create the one in my video), and paint an edge around the photo – you do not have to paint at 100%, but also try 50 or 60% brush opacity and make sure that you are a little sloppy so that it looks like an actual painting showing bits of the underlying canvas.ģ. Create a New Layer on top of your final post-processed image.Ģ. The trick to getting a this beautiful edge on your image is to:ġ. (See Related Blogs at bottom – some with free download links for styles and frames.) Therefore, I have come up with this little workflow to create the perfect artsy border each time. Since most watercolor images have a light border around them, I had created one that I liked a lot, but it still was not quite the effect I was looking to get. But when I am creating a “painterly” look, these really do not do add to the image and I am left with a feeling that the image is unfinished. Dave Cross has some great tutorials on more creative edges and adding some great looking borders that he teaches on KelbyOne and in his still excellent book Photoshop Finishing Touches. In earlier blogs I discussed using plain double-edged layer styles for a clean-edged look on regular photographs. National Geographic cites the above image as one of the “Most beautiful Streets in America” – Magnolia trees with Spanish Moss shade the street near the famous Fountain of Youth located in St. This week’s blog is basically a simple tip on getting a textured border to match your image effect, and the video shows how to create your own border brush. HOW TO CREATE A BRUSH AND PAINT A BORDER ON YOUR IMAGE
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