Advanced Borders (Lasso)

Much love and thanks to anifanatical at M7 for making this tutorial!

One thing to keep in mind is whether or not your group has anti-aliased borders. M7 works on full-size raws and then resizes, so the borders become anti-aliased. TMI works on resized raws, so the borders are NOT anti-aliased.

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As always, create a new layer for your borders!!

If your group does not use anti-aliased borders, make sure you hold down SHIFT so that the horizontal and vertical lines are perfectly straight!

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Also, be sure that your border is straight and does not have visible “steps” in the line. Borders must appear completely straight!

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Avoid this.

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If a panel goes right to the edge of the page, that side does NOT get a border. When using the Lasso on panels like this, make sure you don’t get any border on those sides!

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One Response to “Advanced Borders (Lasso)”

  1. Gamatos Says:

    Hi!
    Nice tutorial! thank you very much…
    it helped a LOT!!!
    If i may say, i noticed through trial a better way to do it…
    Since many times the old borders remain, and erasing them may leave unwanted white gaps,
    i though of:

    create two NEW layers.
    at the first :
    1. using guides and polygonal lasso
    select the inner edge of the border

    2. stroke OUTSIDE it 11 pixels of white
    and then immediately stroke OUTSIDE 7 pixels (desired border pixels minus 1) of black. (this will leave a 4 pixels gap to work in)

    3. clear guides and deselect

    on the second layer :

    1. using guides and lasso select the outer edge of the borders you just draw (it will have crappy corners)

    2.stroke INSIDE the selection 8 pixels of black

    delete the border layer with crappy corners and there you are!!!

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