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Adding keyline around an image

Adding keyline around an image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding keyline around an image

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- [Instructor] I'm often asked how to add a simple keyline around the edge, or near the edge, of an image, and I think the most flexible way to do this would be to use the rectangle shape tool. So, I'll take the U key, and I want the rectangle tool. But before I draw it, I need to know where to draw it. So, I'll use the View menu, and choose New Guide Layout. I'm going to add a 60 pixel margin to the top, left, bottom, and right, and then click okay. Now I know where to drag out the rectangle, so let's set the options. If I only want a single stroke around the image, I'll click on the Fill and be sure to set it to none. Then, I'll click on Stroke, and select a color either from the recently used color or from the swatches, or we can click here in order to access the color picker. For now, we'll leave it set to black, and then we can determine how thick of an edge. I want to make sure that we can see this on screen, so I'm going…

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