How I Like To Do Borders (Lasso + Guides)

This is pretty much a conceptual tutorial. I’m not including screenshots because the ideas have already been covered in the Beginner Borders and Advance Borders (Lasso) tutorials. Also check out the Lasso Guide if you’re unfamiliar with that tool.

First set your guides like in the Beginner Borders tutorial.

Then use the Polygonal Lasso to create a selection around your panels. You can do one panel at a time or you can do them all at once, it’s up to you. Since the Lasso will snap to the guides, this part should go really quickly.

Stroke the selection and choose Inside. Outside and center will give you crappy corners, so make sure you choose inside.

Also, make sure you don’t draw a border around panels that go right up to the edge of the page. This is covered in the Beginner tutorial if you don’t understand what I mean. When using the Polygon Lasso, you can actually click in the ruler or the scroll bar to place a point off the page.

I honestly think that this method is better than the Beginner method, but I also think it’s slightly more complicated. That’s why I’m saving it for after you can do perfect borders. Better to start off simple and start off right, ne?

5 Responses to “How I Like To Do Borders (Lasso + Guides)”

  1. January 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pm colonjay Says:

    mehn, you should’ve said this before!….but yeah, I understand this since I started with the basic. :3

  2. August 26th, 2009 at 4:26 pm jenny Says:

    When I place a point off the page to make the borders around panels that go to the end of the page, they still end up selected. Is there a way to make a side unselected?

  3. August 27th, 2009 at 7:35 am chiresakura Says:

    Which version of PS are you using? I think I remember hearing someone mention that the lasso tool has changed with regards to borders, but I’ll ask around again.

  4. January 16th, 2010 at 12:32 am toptea Says:

    To thoughs who have a newer version of photoshop (CS3 and CS4 I think);
    If you want to draw borders for panel that goes out to the page edges, you must first extend your original scan by cropping it.
    After you finish drawing your borders, just crop off the extra bits.

    (Extra: press Ctrl+; to hide the cyan guide lines)

  5. February 2nd, 2010 at 3:01 pm ordin Says:

    @jenny: i think you simply select the Full screen mode with menu bar (short key F) then click 1 point outside the page, then end up the selection, the border side will unseclected :D
    http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/797/29489647.jpg
    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8895/vd2.jpg

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