Suzanne — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:35:12 +0000

I can stroke middle, inside, outside, alias or anti-alias, feather, change opacity and merge modes et cetera. However, even with inside, alias, no feather, full opacity and normal merge, there is a tendency towards inaccuracy (i.e. 1px is not always 1px).

It's probably a software glitch.

Roo — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:24:18 +0000

Suzanne, do you have the option of various bledning modes and opacity?

With Photoshop you have the choice of blending modes, plus you when I did it I made sure the opacity of the fill was at 100%.

Also I had the choice of it being inside - center - or outside. I chose outside.

I'm thinking that if PhotoPaint has similar options that may be the problem? Maybe it's filling inside instead of outside?

Suzanne — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:34:45 +0000

*lol* that's the trick, eh? heh.

Ah, well, maybe upgrading to 10 will resolve my blurry edges.

taff — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:09:10 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Suzanne
I can do something similar in PhotoPaint but it never seems to come out cleanly for 1px borders. It seems to be hit and miss. That's why I made the macro.

Do you have a trick for your settings that might be making the difference, Taff?

Not that I know of unless the "trick" is in my slightly dated 5.0 version number.

Roo — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:34:12 +0000

Quote: hmmm, in Photoshop I use.. Select>>All Edit>>Stroke

Well sonofagun! I live Photoshop! I breathe Photoshop. And I have never tried that!

Works like a charm!

Suzanne — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:21:41 +0000

I can do something similar in PhotoPaint but it never seems to come out cleanly for 1px borders. It seems to be hit and miss. That's why I made the macro.

Do you have a trick for your settings that might be making the difference, Taff?

taff — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:25:17 +0000

hmmm, in Photoshop I use..

Select>>All
Edit>>Stroke

Roo — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 04:34:02 +0000

Couple of other ways in Photoshop:

New Layer
Select All
Select>>Modify Border>>Type in how many pixels the border will be
Edit>>Fill (or use paint bucket to fill)
Flatten

Or
Image>>Canvas Size>>Choose Pixels and type in how much bigger you want the canvas to be

Then use the magic wand tool to selcect the white area outside the image border, and fill with your color, or simply leave white. This one is quite usefull for giving photos that bordered look, if you add about 15 pixels to both the width and height.

Personally I use a Xenofex plugin called 'Rounded Rectangle', becuase it makes thinner borders than I can do with Photoshop. (with the right fussing with it you can make the borders not rounded.)

Suzanne — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:31:38 +0000

Interesting, I use a macro in PhotoPaint to do this. The steps are:

1. selecte all
2. shrink the mask by as many pixels as you want the outline to be, don't anti-alias the mask
3. invert the mask (makes an outline)
4. fill

I have it in a macro so I just click on it and boom, the image has a nice black outline.

The only thing to be careful of is if you're using layers, don't have it on a layer that is transparent or partially transparent, as then the fill will be partially transparent as well. For PhotoPaint, anyway.

dove — Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:24:13 +0000

Thanks guys -will give it a try!