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Add hand-painted
borders to your shots
Use our free borders to give any picture an instant
artistic appeal with a genuine, brush-painted edge
About your Painted
Border PackThe files have been created using acrylic
paints and a variety of brushes. They’re
all sized to A4 for convenient printing,
but if you have a larger-format printer,
open the border and go to Image > Image
Size. Tick Resample and change the
dimensions to 420 x 297mm for A3,
or to 483 x 329mm for Super A3/A3+.Jon Adams
Jon is a professional
photographer and
writer. He also provides
one-to-one and small-
group tuition in both
digital SLR and Photoshop
image-editing skills.ost artistic borders for images
are created on-screen using
imaging software, graphics
tablets and digital brushes. But
if you really want an authentic,
hand-painted feel, where the brush strokes are
constantly varied and the paint flows into itself
in different ways, there’s only one way to do it!
It may be messy and time-consuming, but
loading brushes with paint and working them
into different paper textures is by far the best
way to get truly organic results – and that’s
what we’ve done for you, to provide this issue’s
selection of custom-made artistic borders.
Using the borders is straightforward. They
all work in exactly the same way, so it’s quick
to try different border effects once you get
the hang of the technique. The borders work
with any image, but the best results tend to
come from fine-art pictures such as creative
portraits and still-life shots – so check your
hard drive for suitable shots, and get cracking!M
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