A few questions?

The_KiD

The_KiD

The_KiD

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Whats the simplest way to add an eye catching border on your photo's?

and what is the best format to save your photo's in ?
 
Borders are down to personal taste. I always use a simple black or white border by increasing the canvas size in photoshop.

As far as file formats go, TIFF is usually used (without compression) whilst continually editing and saving pictures. Once complete, I generally save to high quality JPEG for sending to Photobox, or using on my website
 
I generally just work in .psd, as I don't have any need to be using different apps. When I'm done, I save a final psd copy and a JPEG (quality 12).
 
I do stock photography so I save a TIFF file so if i need to make some changes there wont be any jpeg compression, and also a high quality jpeg for uploading, unfortunatly uses more disk space though.
 
Nothing fancy. There is eye catching and there is eye bleeding.

I started out with some huge horrible borders and people slapped me into shape and now I go with something between 0 - 50 pixels along all sides.
Or making one larger than another one to be technical.

I also dont favour coloured borders.
Grey, white or black. Only do it for me.
 
Just increase the canvas size (filling with white or black) by 10 or 20px. Anything more extravagent and it's just distracting.

I personally save TIFFs at full resolution (although these come out at ~17mb, much more than the RAW :confused: ) then i have an action which resizes to 680px on the width or the height (it's two actions -- one for landscape one, for portrait), then lets me enter any sharpening (USM), increases canvas size by 20px (white border) and saves in the assigned directory. Fun stuff :)
 
thanks RP, will go look for a tutorial on that then could save me going through the same motions over and over again.
 
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