1 Pixel Black Border in Photoshop

[Steve]

one of the most asked things around here, and its probably the easiest thing to do.
this is how i do it, but there is loads of ways to do it.


make sure black is the foreground colour
create a new layer and make sure it is the top layer

ctrl+a (selects all)

edit > stroke
1px , inside
ok

ctrl+d (deselect all)

[.ringer.]

or:

1px, center

[Sal UK]

I always do a 1px border like this.

if im making a 400x100 sig I will create the sig with 398x98
then when I finish I save the psd and flatten the image then resize the canvas to 400x100 so it keeps the image 398x98 then just fill the 1px border with the color I want.

But thats just the way I figured it out, So I always use this method.

[Rider]

that seems like alot of extra work there sal

[.ringer.]

why whould you do all of that work?

[Stu]

'cause he likes doing all that work

[Sal UK]

Its the only way I worked it out ages ago.lol
Maybe I should have asked too.

[Stu]

lol, maybe, just maybe
I suppose everyone has a style of making sigs, i haven't quite worked out the style of mine, but that could be ure style