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BeTheBall Posts: 6381 Joined: 6/21/2002 From: West Point Utah USA Status: offline	Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 11:16:30 This should be simply, but sadly I haven't found PS to be very intuitive. I want to create an orange rectangle with 1-2 pixel black border. Should be easy, but I can't seem to figure out how to do the border. Feel free to laugh to yourself or out loud as you answer this. _____________________________ Duane Some people are like Slinkies . . . Not really good for anything . . . . . But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.


Tailslide Posts: 6267 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 11:58:48 Hi Duane I use PS Elements and I've had problems doing simple stuff like that too - odd isn't it? What I'd do (and there's probably an easier way) would be to make the orange box to the size you want and then zoom in a bit and use the line drawing tool set at 1px thickness and draw each border in. _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project (in reply to BeTheBall)


bobby Posts: 11394 Joined: 8/15/1969 From: Seattle WA USA Status: offline	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 12:21:32 Make the box and fill it with the orange... then select the box using the magic wand, change the color selection to black, then: Edit > Stroke - select the line width you want. Stroke = outline _____________________________ If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? (in reply to Tailslide)


d a v e Posts: 4167 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: online	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 12:25:29 choose your colour. with the rectangle tool (in TOOLS palette - looks like a rectangle ;) draw out your rectangle. in the layer palette click on the little 'f' to add a layer style and pick stroke. pick stroke colour and width _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to bobby)

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RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 12:44:31

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then select the box using the magic wand, change the color selection to black,

I get an alert saying, "Could not use the magic wand because the target is a fill layer."

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in the layer palette click on the little 'f'

I was just getting read to write, "What little 'f'?". Fortunately, I finally realized that the left-most icon is a circle with an "f" in the middle. May be time to change the resolution on the monitor. Or get glasses,

Thanks for the help. Am I the only one who finds PS less than completely intuitive?

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Duane

Some people are like Slinkies . . . Not really good for anything . . . . . But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

(in reply to d a v e)


Tailslide Posts: 6267 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 12:44:46 quote: ORIGINAL: bobby Make the box and fill it with the orange... then select the box using the magic wand, change the color selection to black, then: Edit > Stroke - select the line width you want. Stroke = outline You know you're a genius don't you - I've often wondered how to do this - ended up doing it the hard way. Elements doesn't seem to have the little f thing that it's big brother has but you're method works beautifully. Shiny _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project (in reply to bobby)


bobby Posts: 11394 Joined: 8/15/1969 From: Seattle WA USA Status: offline	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 14:22:03 quote: "Could not use the magic wand because the target is a fill layer." Was it still selected? That's odd... You might have to right click the layer in the layer palette and select "Rasterize" first... and no, PS is anything but intuitive... remember this is considered an "Industrial Strength" program, intended for folks who went to school to learn how to play with it... Photoshop is like most of MS Office... 90% of the users only use 10% of the available features... _____________________________ If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? (in reply to Tailslide)


d a v e Posts: 4167 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: online	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 14:41:41 i think it's quite intuitive... or maybe it's only 'intuitive' when you get used to those sort of programs ;) then again i think DW is more intuitive than FP (eek not wanting to start anything off about THAT!). i certainly don't use everything in there - even back in version 3 there was stuff that other people were using with channels and stuff that i would never have thought of. i onec made a cool molten metal text header for a newsletter in photoshop but then i could never recreate :( personally i find fireworks a lot better for vector stuff - the vector stuff in PS is ok but, er not so intuitive: just the rest of the program is ok! _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to bobby)


airattack111 Posts: 92 Joined: 11/20/2004 Status: offline	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 17:59:02 Ok everyone told you what do do correctly, but their was one problem. Be4 you do anything, make a new layer, then draw your box. Right click the layer, go to blending options, open it, then right click stroke, and mess with the options. I dont like using the magic wand to select things because it doesnt do it perfectly. (in reply to d a v e)


bobby Posts: 11394 Joined: 8/15/1969 From: Seattle WA USA Status: offline	RE: Photoshop for Idiots - HELP! - 6/13/2005 18:29:54 quote: Be4 you do anything, make a new layer That's great advice... especially in Photoshop. Better to have too many layers and merge them later than to have too much done on a single layer. I like to put "strokes" or outlines on their own layer as well... so that you can play with hiding different ones if you want to see different line styles or colors... _____________________________ If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? (in reply to airattack111)

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