create rough border for actions

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peter northall
Feb 26, 2009
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Hi,

I have a technique for creating a ‘rough’ black border on photos, but it can’t be used with actions. (By rough I mean a similar effect to that which used to be reproduced when darkroom printing from a full frame 35mm negative).

Can anyone please suggest a technique to produce such an effect which I could record into an action, it would have to work with both horizontal and vertical photos, though the longest edge size would remain the same.

Many thanks,

Peter
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peter northall
Feb 27, 2009
Hi KatWoman…

Open photo
set background as layer
increase canvas width and height by 3%
use marquee tool manually to define perimiter of photo (not canvas) set quick mask
go to filter gallery
I use combination of filters sumi-e at 9, 9, 16 and spatter at 3,1 OK
clear quick mask
add layer mask
create new layer
fill (with black)
drag layer 1 below layer 0 in layer palette
flatten image
save
done! phew!

This may well be a difficult way of doing something easy, I’m not experienced enough to know. I tried a couple of times to record it in actions, but it simply didn’t work when applied to a small folder of a few test pics. Poss because of vertical and horizontals, or perhaps slightly different sizes on short side. Puzzled…

Peter
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KatWoman
Feb 28, 2009
you didn’t say your technique so am curious what you do that cannot be recorded in an action?

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