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flyers2thecup
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 Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: how to outline a PICTURE rather than text? |
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I have a penguins logo that is 99% black on the outside outline. but i want to paste onto a black background. therefore i want to outline the logo with white. not much, just enough to separate the blacks.
i tried to follow your steps for text, but it didn't really work for me. the background ended up the same size as the logo so therefore i couldn't see the white. i probably did something wrong.
thanks. |
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Aqueritas
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| my suggestion is that you use a 1-2 pixels frame. if thats what you mean, you can access it by double-clicking on the layer in the layer bar (F7) |
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flyers2thecup
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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F7 brought up the histogram.
i can't find what your talking about anywhere. i appreciate the help!!! |
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DeadeyeRich
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Stroke it. Hold down the Ctrl-key and click on the layer thumbnail of your penguin. This will create a selection around your penguin layer. Now move your mouse to Edit - Stroke. I'm using CS2. A shortcut to get to the Stroke function is F10. There you can select the width, color and location of the stroke. Stroke makes a solid line of your "marching ants". Aqeritas tip about double clicking the layer to make a selection will work on earlier versions of Photoshop. They changed it to the method I mentioned above. Either way, depending on what version you have, make a selection and stroke it.
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smudger
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry you had difficulty with the "Outline Text"; I'll PM you my way out of this. |
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flyers2thecup
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| thanks everyone for the input. i got it to work. |
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smudger
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:02 am Post subject: |
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After sending by PM to you, flyers m8, I wondered why I didn't post it here for all to see.  So here it is. 
This should do what you want no matter which version of PSP you have. Good luck.
1 In PSP, open background picture; I've used a simple black rectangle for this demo.
2 Open logo; example here is "Constantin Film"
3 Selections, Select All
4 Edit, Copy
5 Highlight background picture
6 Edit, Paste, Paste As A New Selection
7 Position where required, left click to drop
8 Selections, Modify, Expand, 3 pixels(say), OK
9 Flood Fill selection with desired outline colour
10 Edit, Paste, Paste As A New Selection
11 Position over outline colour patch
12 Selections, Select None
Hope this works for anybody interested. |
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