Basic Graphic Tutorials.

[Koby]

Simple Border:

Some people wonder how to put a border around their gfx, well this is here to tell how. With just a few simple steps you can make your masterpiece have a border.

1. Open up a border less file, that you want to add a border to.

2. Click on the Rectangle marquee tool. then hit CTRL + A, so that the whole graphic is selected.

3. Now with it still selected right click in the center of the image, and click Stroke.

4. Stroke= 1 pixel

Color= (pick a color)

Location= Inside

Blending:

Mode= Normal

Opacity= 100

5. Now click OK, and your done, so go try different styles with the same basic concept.

Transparent Line

1) Create a New Layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N)

2) Select the Rectangular marquee tool and make a rectangular selection where you want the line to be.

3) Edit---> Fill---> Use: White

Also deselect the marquee

4) Layer---> Layer Style---> Blending Options:

a) Make Opacity: 50%

The following is for Photoshop v7+

Select Drop Shadow (with default options)

c) Stroke with Size:1 and Color: Black

Next select the Text tool and type your name or whatever u want in such a way that the font size is not larger than the white patch. then drag the text onto the white patch and your done.

Glow Stitch

1. Start a new image. I made my image 640x480.

2. With black as the foreground, white as the background, go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds.

3. Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Crosshatch ( Stroke Length - 41, Sharpness - 13, Strength - 3 ).

4. Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Ink Outlines (Stroke Length - 38, Dark Intensity - 50, White Intensity - 23 ).

5. Filter -> Sketch -> Water Paper ( Fibers - 15, Brightness - 60, Contrast - 45 ).

6. Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation.

7. Duplicate that layer and set the blending mode to overlay.

Matrix Effect

1) Open a new at least 100x100 pixels with a white bg also press 'D' to reset your colors. Now go to Filter-Texture-Grain with settings: Intensity:100 Contrast: 100 Grain Type: Vertical.

2) Next go to Filter-Artistic-Neon Glow with settings: Glow: 5 Glow Brightness: 20 Glow Color: 00FF00

3) Now basically your done, just go to Filter-Stylize-Glow Edges with settings: Edge Width: 1 Edge Brightness: 5 Smoothness: 1

More to be added later; Hope this helps.

[-PHXN- New001]

Yup thats all right

There is another way if you dont have a new version of PS to do simple bored

Edit-Stroke then set it to color black, and 1 px

This is incase u were using PS elements like i was

[Linoud]

Nice stuff. ;D

Tried the first one and the glow stich, Then I messed about with a different style for the glow stich and used the dodge tool and used a brush and got this:

[RedXIII]

That looks cool Linoud .