[Tutorial] Edges

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Ok, i get from time to time a lot of messages with how to make these borders around an avatar or sig, so i decided to make a tutorial.

-My GIMP 2.6 version is german so i tryed to translate it to english (not perfectly :p)

To answer the question about the edges, this is MY way i invented to make these borders - i dunno any other that is better, faster or easier:

4-Round edges: *Follow these steps*

Select/rounded recktangle/<50>
Select/border/<4>
*Fill out the now chosen part with colour*
Select/select nothing
Select/rounded recktangle/<54>
Edit/copy
Edit/insert as new picture

2-Round edges 2-Square edges: *Follow these steps*

Select/rounded recktangle/<50>
Select/border/<4>
*Fill out 2 corners with a colour of your choice and the whole straight way to the next corner. BUT not the round one (of the edges u want to be square)!! Now it should look like this:
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Select/select nothing
Tool Box/square selection
*make lines with the breadth of ur coloured lines up to the top and fill them with colour*
Like this:
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Select/select nothing
Tool Box/free selection (also called lasso)
*now the "handjob" begins: use the free selection tool (lasso) to round the overlaying borders to get the same breadth as the other borders*
-->(the round edges should be bigger than the straight lines right now)
Close the part u choose and delete it
It should look like this:
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-->(i marked the part u deleted by lasso in the colour YELLOW here)

///EVERY VALUE CAN DEVERSIFY | DEPENDS ON THE BREADTH U WANT///

_-~ FINISHED ~-_
 

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cool tut.
ty^^ i tryed my best

Well its somehow a very noobish tut^^ but many people doesnt even know the basics.
nice Tutorial guess this will help many people
u making fun of me xd ?

When someone knows a better way for bordering in GIMP 2.6 tell meh plz :D
 
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ty^^ i tryed my best

Well its somehow a very noobish tut^^ but many people doesnt even know the basics.

u making fun of me xd ?

When someone knows a better way for bordering in GIMP 2.6 tell meh plz :D
i think he was serious :) this will help people with less skill/imagination xd

you could also do round edge (without the handwork)
on new layer choose circle brush as big as u want that ege to be press few times (so its sharp) select it with wand and contract by how much u want borded to be, delete. and u have round border (gausian blur 1 if u want it smoother), just move it over your rectangle border and delete parts you dont need (3/4 of circle and corner of rectangle) .. same can be done in photoshop
don't hate on me pls you asked xd

ups its pretty old thread :/ didnt check
 
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