Putting a border on a cutout photo

[nikky0000]

Hi, thankyou everyone for your help in the past.

Using IL CS4 WIN XP

Looking to put a border on cutout photo from photoshop with transparent background.

Once placed in IL, how to put a border around it?

Thanks

Nikky

 

[apepp]

...do you mean a border that follows the contours around the subject matter?

...you will need to have an additional path for that, one quick way is to create a quick selection in photoshop, make a work path, then copy and paste that path into illustrator...

...either apply a stroke to it position to the front (maintains vector), or position it behind the PSD fill it with solid and offset the path (effect > path > offset path (becomes pixels as it interacts with transparency from the PSD)...

...or you simply create a layer style in photoshop that has the stroke option enabled...

andrew

 

[apepp]

...to add...

...your better off doing the offset path method, positioned behind the PSD in most cases, some areas do become pixels when flattened, but most is maintained as vector...

andrew

 

[apepp]

...like this:

http://www.zen63258.zen.co.uk/tek/border.png

andrew

 

[apepp]

...to add to my above post about photoshop:

>>> "one quick way is to create a quick selection in photoshop" <<<

...a quick selection can be made by command/control + click, on a transparent layer, then make a work path in the paths palette (button at the bottom of palette)...

andrew

 

[nikky0000]

Thank you.

It's hard to believe that a simple things as a border would not be easily done in ILi!!

Nikky.