06.12.2007 -
No offense, but this has GOT to be one of the worst tutorials I have EVER seen! Come on, Zymic... step it up...
Adobe Photoshop
Free Tutorials » Adobe Photoshop » Dashed Borders
Learn how to create dashed borders for your images and graphics in this simple and easy unique tutorial.
Step 1
Open up your image or layer you wan't to apply this stylish effect to.
Step 2
Now either CTRL + click the layer or grab the Magic Wand tool and select outside of your image. It should look like below:
Step 3
Now go to [ Select > Inverse ]. Once done go to [ Select > Modify > Expand ], I put around 3 pixels in the option box, but try a different amount if it doesn't look right.
My result is below:
Step 4
We will now use our common sense, make sure the image with the dashes is completely shown on the screen and then Print the screen using your keyboards print screen button.
Then make a new document, keep the size as it says and paste the screen shot into the document. You can now select the skull using the rectangular marquee tool and copying it into a new document or you can take the result a few steps further.
I kept using the Magic wand tool and selected inside bits of the skull, then either used Contract or Expand in the select tool bar, printed the screen, pasted it and then selected another but of the skull and repeated the process. My result is shown below. This creates a cool unique and stylish effect which is quick and easy to do.
Tutorial comments
02.08.2008 -
This is better done in Illustrator. There is no consistent way to get a dashed border using this method.
08.03.2008 -
This is kinda stupid. I mean, the result looks kinda cool, but the second one is far from stylish.. I've seen better tutorials on zymic!
27.10.2007 -
this is nice but people dont understain :D
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Tutorial statistics
- Date added:
- 28.10.2004
- Author:
- Zymic
- User rating:
- 1/5
- Total views:
- 4502
- Total comments:
- 4