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One Night in Paris, Pt 3.
Spatter Border
   

You should have already completed One Night in Paris, Part I and One Night in Paris, Part 2 before embarking on this tutorial, but it is not necessary.

In this tutorial we'll create a slanted, spattered border for our composition.
 
 

If you are only interested in how to create a slanted, spattered border, and are not following the multi-part tutorial, Right Click / Control Click on this image and save it to your hard drive.
 
Spattered Borders  

If it's not already open, open your final *.psd file from the previous tutorial (or the image above).

1. Channels Palette > New Channel > Name it Border.
Double click on the new channel to name it.
   

2. Target the Border channel > Rectangular Marquee (M) > Drag a marquee like mine.
   

3. Select > Transform Selection > (Right Click / Control Click inside selection to access the transform menu) > Skew.

Click + Drag on a mid point of the bounding box to create a parallelogram shape selection. Press Enter / Return to apply the transformation.

Center the selection (use your arrow keys to move the selection sideways).

Default Colors (D) > Fill selection with white (Alt + Backspace / Option + Delete).

Note: When in the Channels Palette, your default colors are reversed so White is the foreground and Black is the Background.
   

4. Target Border Channel > Filter > Brush Strokes > Spatter > Spray Radius 13 > Smoothness > 5.
   

5. Target Border Channel > Load channel as selection > Invert Selection (Ctrl + Shift + I / Command + Shift + I).

Layers Palette > New Layer > Fill selection with white (Alt + Backspace / Option + Delete) > Name the new layer Border.

Clear Marquee (Ctrl + D / Command + D).

Save your *.psd file.

You are finished Part III. Things are shaping up nicely. We are just about there. We'll add text and graphics to finish this up in Part 4.

Part IV >>
 
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