Border Edits

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1. Edited Light Birds: 2-14-09; Rexburg; f 2.7; 1.0; Sony CDMavica; Shutter Speed Priority
2. Edited Lanterns- see previous post for image details
3. Edited Light Painting- see previous post for image details

For the first shot, I added a flexible brushed-on effect. I did this by adding a new white layer underneath the original image. Then I added a black layer mask to hide to image layer. I used thick, heavy brushes and white paint at various opacities to paint portions of the image back in. On Shot 2, I created a flexible vignette border by placing a new layer on top of the original image in Photoshop. I filled this layer with black and used the Rectangular Marquee tool to cut out the center of the black layer. I then reduced the opacity of the black border and added a 10px white stroke. For the text, I used Skia font and beveled it. For Shot 3, I added a double fade border. To do this, I cropped the image to 7x9 and increased the canvas size to 8x10 with a black extension color. Then I used the Rectangle tool to draw a pink rectangle on top of the image. I added a mask to this layer and drew a black rectangle inside the pink rectangle, using the Fill Pixels option. I reduced the opacity of the pink layer to 60% and used the Motion Blur filter to blur the edges.