Tainted Arts | Border effects and Fonts

Post: Tainted Arts | Border effects and Fonts

06-29-2010, 10:32 PM #1

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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Do you want to jazz up your graphics? Want to add a bit of pazazz to your art? Well, this guide features some knowledge, border effects, and even directions to make your own swirlie brushes!

Now, open PS4 and get ready to learn! Let's start off with the basics.

[multipage=Border Effects]
-Border Effects

There are two main types of borders, solid borders, and decorative borders. A solid border is like a colored line that raps around the outside of your image and separates graphics from the rest of the page. You can have borders inside the outside borders to make awesome layer effects. Decorative borders are almost the same, except they are not completely connected. (Example - Dashed Borders)

Dashed Borders
Open PS4 and create an image about 380 x 100 pixels with a white background.

Draw a bit with your paintbrush, just add some color. Now maximize your image.

It should take up the whole page. Now go up to the toolbar on the very top and click "Selections" and go down right below that and click "Select All" There should be a dotted line going around the outside of your image.

We're almost done! YAY! Ok, now look on your keyboard. Go to the very top row next to the F1, F2, F3, F4, and look to the right of the F12 button. It should say "Print Screen". Press it, and it will take a picture of everything currently open on your computer that you can see. Now go to the top toolbar once one. Go under "Edit", move down to "Paste", then move your mouse to the right and select "Paste as New Image"

Now, your image has a dashed border, but you can see all the unwanted parts of your workspace. So go to the left toolbar and click the crop tool. It is the small square with a line through it.

Now drag the segment the crop tool makes just around the image. You might want to zoom in some (Click the magnifying glass on the left toolbar on the spot you want to zoom in). Once you have it fully outlined with the crop segment, double-click to crop it. Wallah! Your image now has a dashed border. So just go to the top toolbar once again, go under "File" and click "Save As". Then, select the spot and name to save it.

[multipage=Font Suggestions and Styles]
-Font Suggestions and Styles
With fonts you can do much more than just slapping them on you can add effects by clicking on the layer and selecting blending options. These effects are really things you have to experiment with in order to find a style your comfortable with.
You can also add a clipping mask over our text in order to get it to blend better. This does not work all the time however it can produce some interesting results.

Now, for some font suggestions:

Larger Fonts
Laurenscript
Baby Kruffy (This one is awesome!)
Casual
Chick
Cheri
Walt Disney
Mullet
Dolphins (yippee!)
Jelly Belly
Flubber
Porky's
Gilligan's Island
Cheeseburger

Smaller Fonts
Redensek
Mullet
Georgia
Acknowledge
Tahoma

Helpful Links

    https://peachie.nu

(a few popups though)

Font Places

    https://www.dafont.com/en/

    https://www.1001freefonts.com/

    https://www.fontfreak.com/

    https://www.acidfonts.com/

This tutorial is brought to you by:
Daisho

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