How to make borders with Adobe Photoshop CS for use on AP. Create your own customized borders using images you have in your computer. This is the simplest way I've found and easy for beginners.
This column is to help those who aren’t computer savvy, like myself, learn to make simple borders from the images they have saved in their computers. Many poets here at AP like to compliment their poetry with a lovely page presentation. Now, I may not be too great at giving instructions, but at the request of a dear friend, -LilacThOughts-, I’m going to give this a shot.
The program I use for border making is Adobe photoshop, which many already have installed in their computers. This is the simplest program I’ve used to make borders and probably the easiest for beginners to use.
You will need to open Adobe photoshop and over top of it, open your “my pictures” (if that is where your images are stored). Choose the image that you would like to use, click, drag and drop onto the photoshop page.
The first thing you will need to do is choose the appropriate re-sizing for your image. (Crop your image, if necessary, before re-sizing.) Most images we have are 300 x 330 to 300 x 400. I start my re-sizing typically at about 35% of the original image size. To do this:
1.) Click on IMAGE in the top tool bar.
2.) Click on IMAGE SIZE and a box for Image Size will appear
3.) In the section for width, erase the numbers there (by backspacing) and type in 35.
~Beside that, there will be a pull down menu that says pixels.
~Click the down arrow and choose the setting that says PERCENT (instead of pixels) The height now automatically adjusts itself.
4.) Click the OK button and the image is now reduced to 35% of its original size.
Now that you have your image re-sized, you can begin to make a border. To do this:
1.) Once again, click on IMAGE in the top tool bar
2.) Click on CANVAS SIZE, (right below Image size) and a box for Canvas size will appear.
3.) In the section for width, erase the numbers there (by backspacing) and enter 1024
~Beside that, there will be a pull down menu that says inches.
~Click the down arrow and choose the setting that says PIXELS (instead of inches) The height now automatically adjusts itself again.
4.) Now you must anchor your image to the left to properly place your image within the border. To do this, click the center arrow on the left side of the box of arrows. Once clicked, your image is now anchored to the left of the page.
5.) Now you will choose the color of your background in the Canvas Extension Color. You can use the pull down menu for White, Black or Gray or click “other colors” to choose the best color to match your image
6.) Once your color is chosen, click the OK button. Your border now appears!
7.) Click FILE on your top tool bar, click “save as” and choose where to store your new border and name your border, (I always save as JPEG)and click the OK button. (If another box appears, it is just the new settings for your JPEG, click OK.)
You’re done! Now you have created your own border! You may now upload your new border to AP and use it to enhance the presentation of your poetry. Once you’ve done this a time or two, you will find it only takes a few moments to make your own spectacular borders from any lovely image.
Until you get the hang of these steps, you may want to practice with different images and background colors. If you mess up, just start again!
If anyone has questions, please feel free to ask and I’ll try my best to help, though you must remember, I’m just learning too! I hope you enjoy creating your own borders and sharing them here at AllPoetry.
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Great column, Lori! I've always wondered how people create those fantastic borders, and with your step-by-step instructions I'll be trying to create some of my own.
Now if I could just find that Adobe Photo-thing you've mentioned in Step #1 on this computer...
Jo -
Oh My!
I need to give this a try for I normally use the same ol backgrounds
Easy for beginners is good or my eyes go cross-eyed
Now I am excited
Thanks a bunch for this info~
Love to see the ones You made...
Appreciate Your Inspiration!
Bookmarking this one
Many blessings to You
Best wishes too
and much love~ Desire~*~
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Wonderful girl......
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You did a great job...
This is fantastic Lori, thank you
I like the simplicity of your instructions, I hate trying to figure out technical jargon...
As to showing some examples, you could put them into photo bucket and give links...or upload them to your secondry image file, but not sure if that works on columns...
I will book mark this page, so I can keep referring back to your instructions...you are a real treasure, I for one will be kept busy doing my own backgrounds from now on
Much love and appreciation
~Lilac
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if you have the availabilty of html you could host the image on a place like photo bucket and insert the images with the following code:
< img height=123(change to resizepic) width=456 (Change to resize pic) src=" http:// www.Hosting_site_here/yourhostedpicturehere .gif " border=0 >
Hope that helps. (this will only work if you have access to use html like a gold membership which you do have)
(Also remove the extra spaces between < and img and the src=" and http: and the // and www and just before the .gif parts.) -
Having some example images would be helpful for your column? Looks great, though!
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I tried but couldn't get them to work properly...not sure what else to try. Any suggestions, Tim?
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Could you not get them on here or not give them in photoshop? What I would do is open photoshop and take screen shots (there's a "print screen" key on your keyboard) and then open up a new file in photoshop, paste it in there, and crop it down to the area you want.
Does this help?
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