{"id":2023,"date":"2012-12-28T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/test\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2013-01-12T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:32:41","slug":"free-brushed-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Free brushed border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I made a tutorial for my friends over at Tip Squirrel on how to use the mixer brush to create three borders with a painterly feel. You can read the article and watch the video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsquirrel.com\/3-mixer-brush-border-effects\/\">clicking here to visit tipsquirrel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FF-Mixer-Border-final1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"FF-Mixer-Border-final\" alt=\"FF-Mixer-Border-final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FF-Mixer-Border-final_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"318\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Great as the effect is, there is a problem. You\u2019ll need access to the Mixer Brush to make the borders but the Mixer Brush is only available in Photoshop CS5 and CS6. So what happens if you have an older version of Photoshop or for that matter, any version of Photoshop Elements?<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is you\u2019re out of luck but that doesn\u2019t sound 100% fair to me, so I thought I\u2019d share one of my ready made brushed borders in a way that anyone can use.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the border from here:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/free\/FF-Mixer-Border.zip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/free\/FF-Mixer-Border.zip\">http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/free\/FF-Mixer-Border.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a zipped file of around 300kb in size so shouldn\u2019t take too long to download. You can then unzip it and open the jpg border image in either Photoshop or Elements.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Please read the terms of use at the bottom of this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How to use the border<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nTo add your own photo, first open the photo you want to add. Then select all (CTRL+A) and copy (CTRL+C) . Now jump over to the border image, select a grey rectangle with the Magic Wand tool and choose Edit \u2013 Paste Into (Edit \u2013 Paste Special \u2013 Paste Into in Photoshop CS5 &amp; CS6)<\/p>\n<p>You can then resize the photo before pressing Enter to committing to the changes.<\/p>\n<p>The space for each photo is just under 4000 pixels on the longest edge, so if you\u2019re using smaller images you might want to resize the border or photo before starting.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Usual rules apply.<br \/>\nThe action is copyright Gavin Hoey 2012. You may use it for personal, non-commercial purposes only and please do not redistribute without permission.<br \/>\nThank you and enjoy.<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I made a tutorial for my friends over at Tip Squirrel on how to use the mixer brush to create three borders with a painterly feel. You can read the article and watch the video by clicking here to visit tipsquirrel.com Great as the effect is, there is a problem. You\u2019ll need access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free brushed border<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[23,25,24],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friday-freebie","tag-featured","tag-freebie","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}