Photoshop Border Action

[beetleboy]

In case anyone is keen on a Photoshop border action, here's one that I created and use for my pics:

http://www.west.troden.com/beetleboy.zip

Enjoy!

Liam =]

[Kristine]

Hi Liam

Thanks for the action; will try it out over the next few days...

[ru32day]

Thanks very much for this, it's come just as I thought about going to look for one - what timing. Shall download it and give it a go.

[beetleboy]

Glad I could be of assistance!

Liam =]

[Raydar]

Thanks Liam

I down loaded the file & ran it, worked perfect.
I just changed it a tad & deleted the Flatten Image at the end of the action, so I could play around with the drop shadow & stuff like that

Cheers
Ray

[dimmo]

Sorry, I am fairly new to photoshop.

How do I get it to work? I loaded it, I copied it to plugins dir as well? - still can't seem to get it right

[jonnydee]

Hi,

First off, thanks for the action, works a treat!

To get it to work on OS X, photoshop 7 (might need to adjust the instructions a bit for other platforms...)

1. Double click the action to load it into photoshop
2. Open the file you want to work with
3. Open the actions palette, Window --> Actions
4. Expand the bettleboy.atn action
5. Select Large Web Frame
6. Press the little play button on the action palette
7. Watch as the action does it's stuff!

Hope this helps!

Jon

[dimmo]

Got it working.

Thanks, Jonnydee and Beetleboy!

[pippin88]

Err.. On mine (Photoshop 7 on PC) I don't get the nice big black border round the edge (as seen in http://www.west.troden.com/D70pics/Seagulls.jpg ), and the middle border is shadowed on two sides (top and right) rather than even all around.

I'd edit it myself, except I'm not sure how to select the whole image after the 2nd canvas resize, then have it resize again (final time) without deselecting. (Remaining selected would allow me to apply a fill)

[Raydar]

Ha pippin

One way to do it is open the actions pallet & under beetleboy’s action you will see what sequence the border action is run.
Right down the bottom of that list is Flatten Image, if you click & hold on that a drag it to the little bin down the bottom right the action will stop there leaving you with all the layers of the border to play around with to get what effect you are after.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Ray

[pippin88]

Ha pippin

One way to do it is open the actions pallet & under beetleboy’s action you will see what sequence the border action is run.
Right down the bottom of that list is Flatten Image, if you click & hold on that a drag it to the little bin down the bottom right the action will stop there leaving you with all the layers of the border to play around with to get what effect you are after.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Ray

Nope, doesn't want to give me the big black border. There is no fill or colour step in the actual action that I can see.

Edit: Fixed it by adding a set background colour (white) at the start and then a set background colour (black) between the 2nd and 3rd canvas resizes.

[Raydar]

Great to see you got it worked out mate

I deleted the flatten image part so I could play around with the drop shadow a bevel.
Just to add a bit of me to the frame

Cheers
Ray

[beetleboy]

Have just caught up with this thread and am surprised by it's popularity!

It's nice to see people benefitting!

I'm all warm and fuzzy..and thanks to Raydar and others that helped people out with it!

Liam =]

[Raydar]

No worys mate

I’m what you could call addicted to PS
It’s running on my PC all the time.

Cheers
Ray