Scanlines

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<div class="IPBDescription">In Photoshop Elements</div> Is there not a function for scanlines in Photoshop Elements? I tried Halftone Pattern but the lines are still very thick and the contrast won't work properly. I've not been able to find any tutorials on it either. Any suggestions?

Another Photoshop question: what's the easiest way to make borders for sigs? I've made sigs and done it manually but it never comes out quite even and my way only works for rectangles. Thanks in advance.

SkinnY

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like those ?

Fury

In reply to first bit,

Easy way to make scanlines -

Open a new project in photoshop, dimensions 10 wide x 2 high.
Use the rectangular marquee tool to select a line 10px wide and 1 px high, fill it with black.
Select the other 10x1 line and fill that with white.
Select the whole thing and make it a pattern
Make a new layer on the image you want scanlines on, fill it with the pattern, then drop the opacity to about 30 - 10 whatever looks good

I dunno if thats what you mean, but yeh thats how i do scanlines.


In reply to second bit.

Easiest way to make borders, for mine cause its an irregular shape, i just selected the shape that i cut out, expanded by 1 and filled it in.
you can also stroke an image with a 1px or 2 px stroke to make an ok looking border

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like those ? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
yes.
and thanks asrael.

ThoraX

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or you could give that layer the 'soft lgiuht' property. with soft light, the white will give a lighter shade of the background color, and the black will give a darker shade of the background.

Mr_Headcrab

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The nightvision plugin, by deactivating color, feedback and distortion, you get perfect adjustable rasterlines, i use it often.

Autosalesman

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Fury

no worries ..

only one thing

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its arael <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

close, but no cigar... obviously you havent seen evangelion .. pft <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Mastodon

lol. sorry.

Maybe all this time in front of a monitor has finally done my eyesight in.

Venmoch

Just so you know I used the Nightvision plugin to make my avatar.....

Jimmeh

To make a border, select the bit you want the border around, go to edit->stroke select colour and width

Or double click the layer and do it there