For your regular old, run-of-the-mill simple border:
1. Creat a new layer
2. Select all
3. Edit > Stroke. Select pixel width.
4. Resize however you’d like it and done!
Finalcut: Speed up the render process December 19, 2008
When you’ve been working on a project a lot, you might find that it’s taking longer and longer to render clips. You’ve got too many rendered clips stores. The fix is easy.
File > Render Manager
Find the folder of the project you are working in and put a check in the delete column next to the audio and video icons (the directions are in the window). Then click OK. This will clear out older rendered clips – this will also clean our your undo cache so make sure you don’t intend on going back to a previous state in your project.
Once it’s finished, you’ll need to render your whole project again.
Photoshop: Antique Photo December 16, 2008
This tutorial will show you how to make photos look antique.
1. Start with a photo.
2. Duplicate the image to keep your background image protected. In the copy later, desaturate the image: Image > desaturate.
3. Now we need to adjust the coloring to a sepia tint. Images > Adjustments > Color balance. The settings will vary from picture to picture and it may take quite a bit of fussing to get it right. You’ll want to adjust the shadows, midtones, and highlights. Here are the numbers I used:
4. My photo still looked a bit red, so I also went into the layers pallet and adjusted the Selective Color.
Before selective color——–> After
5. Sometimes images can look washed out after you give it a sepia tint. You might try changing the blending mode of the second layer to Color and setting the layer opacity to 80%.
6. Make a new layer. In this layer I’m going to use my brush tool and some cool brushes that I downloaded for free to add some cracks and crinkles on the photograph.
7. Alright, here’s where I reached out to my resources. I downloaded an action that adds an antique affect to images. Download it, open it and it should appear in your actions tool bar.
Play the action – you’ll be amazed at how many steps go into this and thankful that you don’t have to do the work! At the end, you’ll have an option to keep layers or merge the image. I strongly suggest keeping the layers.
At the end, I added another selective color layer and removed a layer. The cracks that I added earlier make a big impact in the final result:
Photoshop: Download Free Brushes December 16, 2008
Photoshopsupport.com has a link to free downloadable brushes that include really neat things like tattoo designs, butterflies, foilage, auroras, cracks, and more. They are easy to download and are quick ways to add interesting affects to your pictures.
