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Thin line border inside an image

I am a novice to Photoshop. I've learned some things, but can't find information on one thing that I'd like to do.

I would like to produce a thin line , rectangular border INSIDE an image. I guess it could be used as a normal border on the edge too, but I haven't been able to find a description of how to do it.

Thanks.

Jim

try clicking on the line tool, hold down shift to make it straight and have the pixel width to 1px

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marquee select the entire image then go to SELECT -> Modify -> border and tada thats it

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argash - Have you ever tried the Border option? If you did you would have known that would not work. When you enter a 1px border it created a faded 2px border.

Therefore, I agree with bernie, you can easily draw those yourself.

Or you can Ctrl+A to select all, move the selection 1px right and 1px down with the arrow keys, then Contract Selection by 1px, then 1px up and 1px to the left, Shift+Ctrl+I to inverse selection and choose back as your foreground color and hit Alt+BACKSPACE to fill it with that color.

I recommend bernie's advice though, much easier

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Jeroen Mulder

I really don't want to look!

Here's a magic trick...

Select all and then hit Edit > Stroke.

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Derek
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WOW
Why didn't I came up with that? lol

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Jeroen Mulder

I really don't want to look!

Yup I use border all the time. Thats not to say Adobe couldn't make it work better (because they sure as hell could) I was just giving it as a suggestion

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CTR Click the layer, make a new layer behind the layer you want with the border, select>modify>expand and choose the size (in pixels) and then fill wiht the colour you want.

DJdrenaline - That would really work if you want a border at the edge of the image right?

Ah well..lithyne's suggestion rocks

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Jeroen Mulder

I really don't want to look!

Ya, if you wanna make it on the inside:

make a layer on top of the one with the image, select the layer with the image, fill the new layer, contract (selecty>modify>contract) and hit delete.