Design Center Tutorial
Adding cool frame borders to your photos
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add neat frame borders to your prints using Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™. This is normally something that I would have gone to Photoshop CS2 or CS3 for, but right before we went to press with this book, I started using this technique from Sean McCormick (from his Photoshop Lightroom blog at www.seanmcfoto.com/lightroom/) who showed how to use Lightroom’s Identity Plate to get these pre-designed edges and borders onto your print. You have to do a little bit of prep work in Photoshop (it’s easy) before you bring them into Lightroom, but once you do, then you can apply these frame effects any time you like. Kudos to Sean for sharing this one!
Requirements
To complete this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
About the authors
Scott Kelby is Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, and one of the leading seminar instructors in the country today. Scott is author of the bestselling books “Photoshop Classic Effects”, “Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks”, and “The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers”.
Excerpted from “The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers” by Scott Kelby. Copyright © 2007. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders. You can purchase this book at a discount from Peachpit Press.
