Creating borders in adobe

Click Open If you don't have an existing project, you can simply select a photo to get started. On some versions of Illustrator, you may first have to click File before selecting Open Click the "Typography" drop-down box. It's in the upper-right side of the page. A drop-down menu will appear. This box may also say "Start".

If this box says "Essentials" in it, skip this step and the next one. Click Essentials. This is near the top of the drop-down menu. Select your content. Click the photo, text, or other element on the page that you want to outline. Click the Window tab. It's at the top of the window Windows or the screen Mac. Click Appearance. You'll find this near the top of the drop-down menu. The Appearance mini-window will open near your project. It's in the top-right corner of the Appearance window.

This will prompt a drop-down menu. The icon here actually has four horizontal lines instead of three. Click Add New Stroke. It's in the drop-down menu. The Stroke menu will open. Double-click the "Stroke" icon. It's a box wrapped around a smaller box in the lower-left corner of the window.

This will open the Stroke Color window. You should see a white box with a red slash through it either behind or in front of the "Stroke" icon. Select a color. Click and drag up or down the color bar on the right side of the window to change the overall color, then click a section on the gradient to select a specific iteration of that color. Click OK. Frames that are connected in this way are threaded. Text that flows through one or more threaded frames is called a story.

When you place import a word-processing file, it comes into your document as a single story, regardless of the number of frames it may occupy. Text frames can have multiple columns. Text frames can be based on, yet independent of, page columns. In other words, a two-column text frame can sit on a four-column page.

Text frames can also be placed on parent pages and still receive text on document pages. If you use the same type of text frame repeatedly, you can create an object style that includes text frame formatting such as stroke and fill colors, text frame options, and text wrap and transparency effects. When text is pasted, a plain text frame is automatically created. You can also create an empty plain text frame manually and input text. Select the Type tool , and then drag to define the width and height of a new text frame.

Hold down Shift as you drag to constrain the frame to a square. When you release the mouse button, a text insertion point appears in the frame. Using the Selection tool, click the in port or out port of another text frame, and then click or drag to create another frame.

Using the Type tool , click inside any empty frame. If you want to move or resize a text frame without switching from the Type tool to a selection tool, hold down Ctrl Windows or Command Mac OS , and then drag the frame.

If you hold down the mouse button for one second before you begin dragging, the text will recompose while you resize the frame. See Scale type. To quickly fit the frame to its content, use the Selection tool to select the text frame, and double-click any handle. For example, if you double-click the center bottom handle, the bottom of the frame snaps to the bottom of the text.

If you double-click the center right handle, the height is preserved while the width narrows to fill the frame. Tip : You can also double-click a handle on an overset text frame to expand the height or width to fit all text in the frame.

The bottom of the text frame fits the contents of the text. To resize using the Scale tool , drag to resize the frame. This frame has the column and margin attributes specified in the New Document dialog box. Set primary text frames when you want each page in your document to contain a page-sized text frame into which you can flow or type your text. If your document requires more variation, such as pages with different numbers of frames or frames of different lengths, leave the Primary Text Frame option deselected, and use the Type tool to create text frames on parents.

Whether or not you select the Primary Text Frame option, you can add text frames to a parent page to act as placeholders. You can thread these empty placeholder frames together to establish a flow. Flow text into primary text frames using the same procedures you would use with frames created on document pages. Then click in the frame using the Type tool and begin typing.

You can use Smart Text Reflow to add or remove pages automatically as you type and edit text. By default, when you type text at the end of a threaded text frame based on a parent page, a new page is added, allowing you to continue typing in the new text frame. You can edit Smart Text Reflow settings. If you change the page margins, text frames adjust to the new margins only if the Enable Layout Adjustment option is selected. Selecting the Primary Text Frame option does not affect whether new pages are added when you autoflow text.

Use Text Frame Options to change settings such as the number of columns in the frame, the vertical alignment of text within the frame, or the inset spacing , which is the distance of the margins between the text and the frame. If you need to use the same text frame properties for multiple text frames, create an object style that you can apply to your text frames.

See Object styles. How do you add more lines in different colors? I am using PS7. Thanks again, Tammy. Hello Tamara, If you want a border that went red, green, blue you could first make a blue border 9 pixels wide, then make a green border 6 pixels wide, then make a red border 3 pixels wide.

Recording a Photoshop Action is the easiest way to do this on a routine basis.