Hello, i'm trying to have this effect:
http://phpgogh.altervista.org/test.psd

but i don't know how to have it. I tryied many effect with psd but it was
useless. Can you tell me step by step how do i get it?
Thanks

"Portek" <no_spam@portek.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, i'm trying to have this effect:
> http://phpgogh.altervista.org/test.psd
>
> but i don't know how to have it. I tryied many effect with psd but it was
> useless. Can you tell me step by step how do i get it?
> Thanks
try posting in an internet format like jpg

not going to download and open strange files

KatWoman wrote:
> "Portek" <no_spam@portek.com> wrote in message
> news:47d57a85$0$10617$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it ...
>> Hello, i'm trying to have this effect:
>> http://phpgogh.altervista.org/test.psd
>>
>> but i don't know how to have it. I tryied many effect with psd but
>> it was useless. Can you tell me step by step how do i get it?
>> Thanks
> try posting in an internet format like jpg
>
> not going to download and open strange files

It's a PSD file.
That's a photoshop document. Not so strange for a photoshop newsgroup.

To the OP, there are dozens of different ways you could do this.
Personally, the method I would use is as follows...

Set up a new layer in your image.
Now using the rectanguelar marquee tool, draw a rectangular selection.
Next click Select > Modify > Smooth, and enter a number that corrsponds to
the number of pixels you want your radius to be. Click on Okay.
Now your selection will have radiused corners. Use the paint-bucket to flood
it with whatever colour you want your line to be.
Next click Select > Modify > Contract, and enter a number that corrsponds to
the number of pixels width you want your line to be. Click on Okay.
Now hit the delete key on your keyboard.
Lastly, click Select > Deselect.

That will replicate the effect you have shown us, but this is only one of a
dozen or so different ways of doing the same job.
You'll get loads of other answers suggesting different methods. Each one as
valid as the last one. The trick is to try them all and find the one that
you find easiest.

Good luck.

"(not quite so) Fat Sam" <samandjanet@knox.orangehome.co.uk> ha scritto

> Set up a new layer in your image.
> Now using the rectanguelar marquee tool, draw a rectangular selection.
> Next click Select > Modify > Smooth, and enter a number that corrsponds to
> the number of pixels you want your radius to be. Click on Okay.
> Now your selection will have radiused corners. Use the paint-bucket to
> flood it with whatever colour you want your line to be.
> Next click Select > Modify > Contract, and enter a number that corrsponds
> to the number of pixels width you want your line to be. Click on Okay.
> Now hit the delete key on your keyboard.
> Lastly, click Select > Deselect.
>
> That will replicate the effect you have shown us, but this is only one of
> a dozen or so different ways of doing the same job.
> You'll get loads of other answers suggesting different methods. Each one
> as valid as the last one. The trick is to try them all and find the one
> that you find easiest.

Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. I have read with attention and i have
done all you have described, and the result is a little different from my
example. Infact in my example the two lines, one black and one white, in the
*curvature* mix themeselves and exit inverted. Infact i think this is an
effect like a object impressed by light. The final impression of this effect
is that the lines seem to be a track impressed on the background.

regards Portek

"KatWoman" <spamfree@hotmail.com> ha scritto

> not going to download and open strange files

This is the file in jpg format:
http://tinyurl.com/3av8x3

Please, read the answer to Fat Sam. Thanks

regards Portek

Portek wrote:
> "(not quite so) Fat Sam" <samandjanet@knox.orangehome.co.uk> ha
> scritto
>> Set up a new layer in your image.
>> Now using the rectanguelar marquee tool, draw a rectangular
>> selection. Next click Select > Modify > Smooth, and enter a number
>> that corrsponds to the number of pixels you want your radius to be.
>> Click on Okay. Now your selection will have radiused corners. Use the
>> paint-bucket
>> to flood it with whatever colour you want your line to be.
>> Next click Select > Modify > Contract, and enter a number that
>> corrsponds to the number of pixels width you want your line to be.
>> Click on Okay. Now hit the delete key on your keyboard.
>> Lastly, click Select > Deselect.
>>
>> That will replicate the effect you have shown us, but this is only
>> one of a dozen or so different ways of doing the same job.
>> You'll get loads of other answers suggesting different methods. Each
>> one as valid as the last one. The trick is to try them all and find
>> the one that you find easiest.
>
> Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. I have read with attention and
> i have done all you have described, and the result is a little
> different from my example. Infact in my example the two lines, one
> black and one white, in the *curvature* mix themeselves and exit
> inverted. Infact i think this is an effect like a object impressed by
> light. The final impression of this effect is that the lines seem to
> be a track impressed on the background.

Aaaah. I didn't notice first time round that there was a white line too. I
thought you were asking how to radius the corners on a square shape.
Adding the white line to it is a trivial task.
Just copy the entire layer with your shape on it to a new layer.
Now click Image > Adjust > Invert
You should now see two versions of the same shape. One in black, and one in
white.
Just move the white one so it's offset from the black one by onepixel
horisontally and one vertically.

Of course, you might not want the second shape to be white...That's no
problem...We can make it any colour we want to...
Ensure that your new offset layer is selected, then click on Image >Adjust >
Replace Colour.
Now select the colour that outline currently is and in the bottom part of
the window, select the colour you want it to change to...
Couldn't be simpler...

Or.....There's yet another possible way to do it....

With the original layer you made with your shape on it selected, click on
Layers > Layer Style > Drop Shadow.
Now use the following settings....
Blend mode = normal.
Set the colour to white or whatever you need.
Opacity to 100%
Angle to 135 degrees or whatever you need
distance = 1
spread = 0
size = 1
contour set to the convex grey quadrant shape.
anti alias = unticked
noise = 0

Click okay, and you ha're done.