Cool Boarders Quite simple and effective

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Tutorial on how to make something like this:

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Step one

 

Find a pic any size will do

 

Step two

 

Get your Polygonal Lasso Tool While holding down shift draw a shape similar to this(you can change this at the end)

 

and press SHIFT + CTRL + I

 

 

Step three

 

While you have that selected Go to Layer > New Fill layer > Gradient.

Click the cooper Gradient and click ok - u should get this

 

 

 

Step four

 

 

Set the Gradient Layers mode to luminosity and add some blending options to make it look 3d. You should get something like this.

 

 

Optional Step

 

While on your Grad Layer get one of your Maruqw tools select a bit of the board and press Delete. Fiddle around with that until your happy with it.

Edited September 19, 2005 by KuBi (see edit history)

[bluhapp 0]

greeat for AVVIE but for signatures.. i think its not suitable...

[machinamedia 0]

Nice tutotial!

[Stone Cold 3:16 0]

Intresting, it seems very effective on most of my masterpieces....

[Oli 0]

Looks quite useful. I'll try it some day.