outlining in psp7, images. Options

[jue]

Does anyone know how to outline an image in paintshop7?

like this - http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/2790/de...oflovers6zu.jpg

[talcumpowder]

You need a .PSD/Transparent .PNG, then you just add a border.
(I think it's Image -> Add Border or something.)

[jue]

^what do you mean?

[*Libertie*]

It should work the same way you got the border around your avatar and the stroke around the text, if you did that in psp.

I don't have Paint Shop Pro, but try Image > Add Border like Reili suggested.

[talcumpowder]

You need a image with a transparent border around the subject you want to outline.

^ So, like, you can't ouline just the guy in this picture, you'd need an image more like the ones here....
[ http://www.aethereality.net/png.php ]

[pure_doxy]

Ok, the super long way I did it (which is actually probably easier another way, but hey, whatever works, right?)...

Open the image and erase the unnecessary parts of it, leaving your subject on a transparent background (as in, the grey and white boxes).

Use the magic wand selection tool and select the transparent part. Then go to Selections -> Invert. This should select your subject. Copy this and go to Edit -> Paste as New Image.

With the subject still selected, go to Selections -> Modify -> Expand. Use a setting smaller if you want a smaller outlining. For my xanga layout, I used 3, I think.

Still with the expanded subject selected, use the paint brush and the color of your choice and just fill in the entire space (covering the image in the process). This is going to be the outlining layer.

Copy that outline selection and paste it into the original cropped image as a new layer. Send the outline layer behind the original image, and arrange the image on top to make it look even.



Like I said...There is probably a WAY easier way to do this...but I haven't looked up on the subject myself. This is just the way I've discovered with PSP.

Good luck!

[*Libertie*]

^ That's about all you can do if you've got a background on the picture, so you're right - there really isn't an easier way. You hafta carefully erase it all and get up close precisely around the edges.

This has already been mentioned, but http://www.aethereality.net/ has some really good pictures that are already transparent, so the messy part's already done for you.

[maryissa]

Ok, the super long way I did it (which is actually probably easier another way, but hey, whatever works, right?)...

Open the image and erase the unnecessary parts of it, leaving your subject on a transparent background (as in, the grey and white boxes).

Use the magic wand selection tool and select the transparent part. Then go to Selections -> Invert. This should select your subject. Copy this and go to Edit -> Paste as New Image.

With the subject still selected, go to Selections -> Modify -> Expand. Use a setting smaller if you want a smaller outlining. For my xanga layout, I used 3, I think.

Still with the expanded subject selected, use the paint brush and the color of your choice and just fill in the entire space (covering the image in the process). This is going to be the outlining layer.

Copy that outline selection and paste it into the original cropped image as a new layer. Send the outline layer behind the original image, and arrange the image on top to make it look even.
Like I said...There is probably a WAY easier way to do this...but I haven't looked up on the subject myself. This is just the way I've discovered with PSP.

Good luck!

i was wondering how 2 do that also. this works nicely^^^^^. i like it. thankz

[xosteffanator]

I found this tutorial very helpful-click