Since I’m pretty far behind on my tutorials, I thought id post an easy one to get the juices flowing. This as is a very quick and simple tutorial using layer select option.I will be working on a collection of these borders and well as a few other resources for photographers and designers. I did have a few sets of vector art for free and soon we will have some in the shop available for purchase, so look forward to some new samples from that and if you like you should buy!

Here is the border template, i have included three in the bottom of this post.

• STEP 1: Load your border template.

• STEP 2: Now load your selected image and place it under the border template
• STEP 3: To cut away the edge, Press and hold Ctrl, then right click on the border template, This will make a selection of the template.
• STEP 4: Go to Select and then Inverse, Cut the new inversed selection
  

You should now have a border effect, : )

• Click image to Download full res.

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Here is the final image,

• STEP 1: Open a new document in Photoshop

Make sure the Background contents is Transparent. I used 800×600 px size. You can use any size for this tutorial, but if you plan to make a printed poster I would recommend that you would use a much larger size.

• STEP 2: Create your shade background

Fill your canvas with a dark gray, I used #383838. Then select the brush tool and use a large blurry (hardness=0%) and use a slightly brighter color, I used #6b6b6b, to brush at random spots in the canvas. You can also use the gradient tool to achieve this.

• STEP 3: Insert your image into the canvas

…Either by dragging or pasting. It is better to use an image with a very simple background and where to main person or subject sticks out. I used this image:

• STEP 4: Go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast…

Use the following settings: Brightness: -30, Contrast: +40. These number do not have to be exact because your original image might already have a high contrast. So if these numbers are too high, use my example difference to come up with a good number.

• STEP 5: Change Blending mode

Select the layer of your image and change the Blending mode from Normal to Darken (this option can be found in the top of the layers window).

• STEP 6: Select the Custom Shape tool from the Tools window

Select the layer of your image and change the Blending mode from Normal to Darken (this option can be found in the top of the layers window). Then select the ‘Registration Target 2′ shape from your default custom shapes. This is the shape which resembles sun rays. Make sure the shape color is White.

While holding Shift, create the shape on the canvas in a way that the main subject of your design is around the center of the rays.

Then Right click on the shape layer you have just created and select ‘Rasterize Layer,’ and move this layer right under your image layer in the layers window.

• STEP 7: Erase the rays from under your image subject

Since you want the rays to go AROUND the subject and not ON them, select the Eraser tool and use a small blurry brush (hardness=0%) to get rid of the rays that show on the subject of your image. Then select a grungy or dirty brush for your eraser, and erase a little here and there around the rays. I used this Grunge brush set.

• STEP 8: Add more Grunge

Create a new layer (on top of all layers). In this new layer use a different grunge or dirty brush and select the color black to add some grunge on the sides of the image or wherever you find it fit. For this step, I used this Spray paint brush set.

• STEP 9: Add Hue/Saturation Layer

Select the ‘Create a new fill or adjustment layer’ button which is the little half black half white circle button in the bottom of the layers window, and choose ‘Hue/Saturation…’ Use the following settings:

You should now have something similar to this:

• STEP 10: Add Gradient Map Layer

Once again select the ‘Create a new fill or adjustment layer’ button (half black half white circle button in the bottom of the layers window) but this time choose ‘Gradient Map…’ Then click on the gradient to edit the colors. In this step you can choose any variation of colors to determine the gradient map of your design.

Here are the colors I used along with their gradient Locations (right to left):
#7b0300 at 0%, #a00000 at 2%, #ff7e00 at 38%, #f7ff2a at 100%

• STEP 11: Add Border Shadow

Create a new layer. Then Select All (ctrl+A) and go to Edit>Stroke and use the following settings and make sure the color is Black:

Then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 42.0 pixels. Change the Opacity of this layer to 56%.

You are done!

I added text and some more simple effects finish it off, the font used is Impact. Remember, you can play around with the gradient colors and get some very cool results. You can also add brushes and patterns here and there as I did below and achieve a more complex look.

If you want learn how to achieve that halftone pattern in the background,  check out the Halftone Pattern Brush Set.

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Another effective tutorial showing us how to create this great effect using an alpha mask in the channels pallet. Nick at www.2gen.net was kind enough to show me this tip last night, so Thanks You! to him for the tip and now ill show you how its done.

• 1. Grab your image and create a new document, mine is 565px wide.

• 2. Select your Channels pallet and create a new layer it will become an alpha layer

• 3. Now select the Gradient Tool and pick White to transparent.

…and Drag your Gradient In this direction

• 4. Open Filter/Pixilate/Halftone and apply these setting. (depending on size increase the Radius with larger images)

• 5. Press and Hold Ctrl and click on the Alpha 1 Thumbnail, this will highlight the selection.

• 6. Now Select RGB and then Go to Layers Pallet and select the layer you would like to effect and Cut.

Final Image ~ Proceed to next steps to create additional effect

Optional Steps:

• 7. Merge all layers and then duplicate the layer, Go to Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur to about 2.0 and then set mode to Darker Color.

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This is a very simple effect that can be done easy with only a few steps. This tutorial will show you how to create a waterpaint effect using a couple brushes i found online as well as the gradient tool.

• Slap a few brushes onto separate layers no need to be neat, I used a few brush strokes and some splatters .

• Then select the Gradient tool and add a few varying sizes and colors to a new layer.

• Now set the mode of the Gradient layer to Soft Light and then Duplicate the layer twice with a total of three Gradient layers.

…and that’s it, Here are a few Close-Ups of the painting.

Normal

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Lomographic photos have a strong and noticeable dark blur as well as a greeny, redish tint. We’ll start off by adding a strong vignette to the photo.

1. Open a photo to edit.

2. Follow the steps below according to the version of Photoshop you’re using:

• For Photoshop CS2:

3. Choose Filter> Distort> Lens Correction.
4. Inside the Lens Correction filter, adjust the settings in the Vignette section to create the vignette.

• For Photoshop CS or older:

1. Create a new layer and select the new layer.
2. Use the Lasso tool and create an oval selection. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
3. Inverse the selection (Select> Inverse or Shift+Ctrl+I).
4. Press Shift+Backspace to open the Fill tool. In the Fill tool, set the contents to Black and click OK.
5. Deselect (Select> Deselect or Ctrl+D).
6. Open the Gaussian Blur filter tool (Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur). In the Gaussian Blur window, ensure that the Preview checkbox is checked and adjust the Radius to blur the edges so that a vignette is created.
7. Reduce the opacity a little. An opacity around 75% should produce good results.

5. Now we’ll change the colors to match those produced by lomo cameras. We won’t be using any color adjustment tools. Instead, we’ll be modifying individual channels.

6. Inside the Channels pallet (Window> Channels), select the red channel.

Adjusting the contrast of the red channel using the Brightness/Contrast tool.

7. With the red channel selected, use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) and increase the contrast. The higher you set the contrast, the stronger the color effect will be. I found that increasing the contrast by 50 produced the most realistic results.

Adjusting the contrast of the green channel using the Brightness/Contrast tool.

8. Now select the green channel and use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) to increase the contrast by the same amount you did in the previous step.
9. Select back the RGB channel (Ctrl+~) to view the results.

10. Now Duplicate layer and go to Filter/Blur/Guassian Blur set to 3 to 5 depending on the size of your image.

11. Use the Lasso tool and create an oval selection. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
12. Go to Select/Modify/Feather and set to 100px
13. Cut the Selection.

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