Tina,
Just make sure that when you do "Stroke" you have the stroke set for "Inside" ..
if you are trying to do it on the whole image and it is set for outside then you are not going to see it.
Wendy
Wendy,
Where do I look to see if I have it set for inside or outside? Tina
Tina,
When you go Edit>Stroke, look at the "Location" box.
Nancy,
I went into edit>stroke and found it was set for center I changed that to inside. The pixels were set at 1 so I played with that changing it all the way up to 99. It did increase the size of the border but then I lost the strokes frame look. Now it is a smooth white frame.
Tina
Tina,
The stroked frame can be whatever color you desire. It will be the color of the "foreground" box at the bottom of the Tool Box. You can dictate the color, by several means.
1st method; Edit>Stroke and click on the "Color Box" and make adjustments in that dialog box.
2nd method; just click on the foreground color in the Tool Box and adjust
3rd method; open the "Swatches Palette" and click on a color.
There are more ways also.
edit—it is best to put this stoke on a new blank layer (above your image in the Layers Palette), this allows you to add some dimension to it (3d ish) by using a Style (like bevel and emboss)
Wendy and Nancy, there’s a little confusion here. I think Tina is talking about the Strokes frame under Effects>Frames, not using a stroke to create a border. 🙂
Oh, well then, I apologize for my misunderstanding of the question.
…. and I misunderstood too 🙂
Wendy
Tina,
The Strokes Frame is not something I have used … but I have just been checking it out and the size of the frame seems to vary with the size of the image … so the bigger the image the smaller the frame.
Also I can’t see a way to change it 🙁
Wendy
You may want to take a look at the cookie cutter tool and select ‘ crop shapes’. After selecting a shape and then dragging it accross your image to give the desired effect you want then click on the checkmark at top of screen to commit the crop. You can then create a new layer below your image and fill it with white or whatever color you wish. The crop shapes are actually kind of neat to use this way.
