Photoshop technical question. Using CS4 if it matters.
Making some graphics that look like tarot cards, and I created a border template to drop on top of all of them so they match. Template works great except in one spot.
On the right side of the border, the template has a small white edge to it. Top, left, bottom… all work fine. But that right side, as soon as I drop it on top of another graphic, has a white edge where the matte ends.
I have no idea how to get rid of it. Would love to fix in template before I drop it on the other cards, obviously, so I only have to fix it once.
Any photoshop gurus out there know how to handle this?
I’m not 100% sure I can visualize this (do you have a copy of the file I can play with). But my thought would be to take an eraser* and erase the white edge so that it’s transparent. Is that something that would work?
*To make it nice and clean, instead of the eraser use the rectangle marquee tool, put it at the top right edge, drag it down to the bottom right edge and then open the marquee to the right, creating a rectangle around the white part, then hit delete it.
Create a mask and use the white and black brushes to clean up the white. When you’re satisfied with the results, you can apply the mask layer to delete the white or just leave the mask. As Joey said, it’s tough to really give good advice without having a copy of the file. If you want me to take a crack at it, PM me and I’ll tell you where to send the file.
does the template have a transparent border? If so, you could crate a new layer on top, and option(alt?)-click between the new layer and the template (in the layers palette) to mask the new one from the one beneath.
Now, use the clone tool, or brush… whatever, to paint away those white pixels.
Depending on the situation, there’s a billion ways to skin this cat.
Under the Layers menu, there’s a Matting entry, giving you a chance to “defringe” or just get rid of black or white matte lines.
Technically it’s intended for imported images created in other software, which can create matte lines when they are rendered against clean backgrounds.
Thanks everyone. I’ll take a stab at this tomorrow. If I can’t get it to work, I’ll send out a PM or two and see if anyone can do this quickly. Hate to use someone else’s time like that, but I think it’s the sort of thing someone who knows what they are doing can fix in 3 mins flat. That said, gonna try the suggestions first before I bug anyone directly.