How to create simple but sleek borders on images

[Master Chief]

This is a guide on how to create images with small borders, this is a basic but very effective way to make your designs look that little bit better

 

The guide will be shown in a number of pictures with a picture picked out for effectiveness of a guide, the picture is this, it has been cropped down to save space

 

1 - First take your layer/image and place it where you want it

2 - Right click the layer you want to add a border and click 'Blending Options'

3 - Apply inner shadow (tick the box)

4 - Put the settings to (90 degrees angle) - (Distance = 0) - (Choke = 100)

5 - Click on 'Contours' in the Inner Shadow page and click on the one that says 'Cone' as seen on the picture

6 - Admire the sleek border you have just created

 

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1 - First take your layer/image and place it where you want it

 

 

2 - Right click the layer you want to add a border and click 'Blending Options'

 

 

 

3 - Apply inner shadow (tick the box)

 

 

 

4 - Put the settings to (90 degrees angle) - (Distance = 0) - (Choke = 100)


 

5 - Click on 'Contours' in the Inner Shadow page and click on the one that says 'Cone' as seen on the picture

 

 

 

6 - Admire the sleek border you have just created

[Dex]

Thanks, very nice tutorial. And just fyi, if you put the distance on 0 the angle if the inner shadow doesn't matter.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Deximal

[Wax A]

Well this is easy, thanks!

[giga55]

You made it look easier than it is i cant even figure it out..