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Old 16-07-06, 16:35
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Hi all sorry if this sounds like a simple question!

I have some images to show for the next season at my photographic club.

I have them printed as 12 x10s at a proffesional lab so supply them on CD.

My question is this; I would like to have them printed with a border or key line around the edge in a colour picked from the image. The image is then put on a mount to show the key line.

How can I do this and do I have to resize the image to take into account the additional key line?

Help?

P.S K.I.S. cos I am stupid.

Thanks (a very frustrated)

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Old 16-07-06, 20:19
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Hi Nogbad, first the mechanics of adding the coloured keyline.
There are several ways but here are two. Firstly you must decide what colour you want by using the picker tool on the photo where you want to sample the colour. This will alter the foreground colour to that selected. Now you can either Select All and Edit>Stroke, decide how many pixels wide you need, select Inside and Foreground Colour then OK. Or you could go to Image>Canvas Size then increase by a given number of pixels or whatever, select foreground colour and OK. The line will be added.

As for the rest you need to Image>Image Size the picture to whatever print size you want, or you could add a white border in Canvas Size to make the whole thing the size you want printing.

Hope some of this makes sense I'm not even sure what prog you use or how much you know your way round it. I'm kinda assuming you are using Photoshop.
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Old 16-07-06, 20:43
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Hi stephen I have Elements 3 and CS. I am only just getting the hang of Elements 3 and am a bit of an Numptie where these software are concerned so if I seem a bit thick bear with me.

I will try what you have said and see how I go on. (Watch this space!)

I may come back to you?

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Old 16-07-06, 21:35
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Hi Stephen many many thanks success at last!

It seems so simple was you have done a couple of times.

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Well I'll be danged

Thanks Stephen for the easy to follow guidelines and thank you Nogbad for asking the question to begin with.
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