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How to make Stitch type border in Photoshop

Ravi — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:41:17 +0000

Today I will show you how to add a Stitch type border in a photo using Adobe Photoshop. Such borders are often used when designing a jeans or a jacket type design. Its easy, but please follow steps carefully. We will be making use of brush tool with some setting.

Difficulty: Easy
Completion time: 5-15 minutes.
Tools: Adobe Photoshop

Final Look

Below is final look after we apply stitch border in a photo.

Step 1:

Open any image in which you want to add stitch border. I am using below image.

Step 2:

Select brush tool.

Download this brush and load this brush.

Select the downloaded brush and press F5 on keyboard to enter brush settings. Apply following setting to brush.

Step 3:

Create a new layer. Now select “Rectangle Marque Tool”

And make a rectangle selection as shown below.

Right click and select “Make Work path” and make selection as path.

Step 4:

Set foreground color to black and select Pen tool.

Right click again and select “Stroke Path”

and stroke the path with Brush.

Right click again and select “Delete path”.

We have applied Stitch type border on this photo.

I hope you liked the tutorial.

How to make Postage stamp type border

Ravi — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:35:56 +0000

Hello friends, In this Photoshop tutorial, we will add Postage stamp type border to an image. Its very easy. Just use of eraser tool with some brush setting.
Difficulty: Easy
Completion time: 5-15 minutes.
Tools: Adobe Photoshop

Final Look

Below is final look after we apply postage stamp type border.

Step 1:

Create a new document of size 300 X 300 px with transparent background.

Step 2:

Select “Rectangle Tool“.

And draw a rectangle shape in white color.

Step 3:

Select “Eraser Tool”

Press F5 and apply following setting to eraser tool.

Step 4:

Press and hold CTRL key and click on rectangle shape layer. This will load rectangle shape.

Select “Rectangle Marquee Tool”.

Now, right click and select “Make Work Path”

Right click layer and select “Rasterize Layer”

Step 5:

Select “Pen Tool“.

Right click on image and select “Stroke Path“.

And stroke path with Eraser.

Right click again and select “Delete path”.

We have applied postage type border to this shape.

Add a small image to make it look like a postage stamp.

I hope you liked the tutorial.

Add broken border to a Photo

Ravi — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:16:01 +0000

This is a nice and easy method to add grunge type or broken type of torn type border to a photo. The method will take hardly 2 minute.

Step 1:
Open any photo to which you want to add broken border. I am using below image.

Step 2:
Select rectangular marquee tool and make a selection leaving about 20 px margin.

Step 3:
Click “Add layer mask” icon.

Now we have something like below.

Step 4:
Go to Filter >> Brush Strokes >> Spatter.. and apply following settings:

Done !!!
We have added broken border to the photo. Below is the final image.

Hope you liked the tutorial.