This one is easy enough. Quick tut. This is assuming you are in Photoshop

1. Create a new layer and CTRL+A to select all
2. Edit > Stroke. Do 3 pixel (2 pixel may work too) and select inside. Hit Ok
3. Now you have two choices. You can try lowering the opacity to like 30% or you can change the layer style. You'll want to check out Overlay and Screen and then mess with opacity to get it right
4. Finally, it looks like they have a secondary border in there so you want to double click the layer with the stroke in it and select the "Stroke" option. Set it to 1 pixel, black, and inside. Then you want to play with the opacity of the stroke until you get the effect that you want. Then hit Ok


That should give you the effect you are looking for.

I couldn't get it.

Ok, can we do that with GIMP or any other Gfx program? With Photoshop I did. My tryout version expired.




Last Edit: Apr 11, 2008 2:47:50 GMT by richardgary1223

GIMP should work. Haven't used that in like... years, though, so I don't know if the settings would all be the same or what they would be called

I just wanted to know how that frame kind of border went inside the picture.

There are two frames, one in and one out.

Yeah, well I told you how you would do it in Photoshop. Not sure about other programs since I only use Photoshop now.

oh, wow, how I wish I could still use tryout version, I cannot even save my work now.

*sorry for double-post*

Just got Adobe Photoshop CS2, I tried the output tut you gave, it came sort of like this:

img153.imageshack.us/img153/494/charava1sr4.png

First off, this border style is something should be used on darker backgrounds. Next, make sure in step 2 you use white as your stroke color and black in step 4. With Step 3, try only lowering the opacity.

Tell me how it looks after that.