Re: torn edges (was re: Photoshop)

Dan...

Thanks so much for your good advice. Will most of these PhotoShop plug-ins
work with Paint Shop Pro as well?

Gail Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: dan gray <danielgray(at)mindspring.com>
To: <hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 9:03 AM
Subject: torn edges (was re: Photoshop)


> Judy Bujold wrote:
>
> > I have a few black and white pcitures that I scanned in for a web site.
> > I want to do something cool to the borders.  I have seen a few sites
> > that have a paper torn effect around the borders.
> >
> > I use Photoshop 5.5 at work so I am limited.
>
> Three ways (okay, four) to skin the cat:
>
> 1. OLD-FASHIONED.  Tear some white paper, put a sheet of black paper
> behind it, and scan it.  It can take some fiddling, but you can create a
> very cool alpha channel mask.
>
> 2. PLUG-INS.  Check out Auto F/X (http://www.autofx.com/), the
> developers of the Photo/Graphic Edges plug-in.  You might also want to
> look at Extensis (http://www.extensis.com/) for PhotoFrame, a similar
> offering.
>
> 3. IMAGESTYLER.  Download the Adobe ImageStyler demo
> (http://www.adobe.com/). ImageStyler's alpha channel mask implemention
> is way way cool.
>
> One of these days, I'm gunna get my Photoshop Plug-ins Book online ... :)
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
> http://geekbooks.com

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