Make a Simple Border & Record the Action for Later Use

I discovered scripts the other day. You can record your actions, and anytime, apply them to another photo by clicking a photo. Don’t worry about finding the effects again, or what settings you used. For this example we’ll make a nice, simple border for our images.

Step 1

Load your image in Paint Shop Pro. Then go to File > Scrips > Run.

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Step 2

Next go to Image > Add Border and use these settings:

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Repeat it twice and change the settings accordingly.

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Step 3

Now go to File > Script > Save Script and choose a name for it (save it in the default directory for scripts). Now, anytime you want to add borders, go to File > Script > Run and select your file.You might have to click OK on some dialogs, but it goes much quicker then doing it manually.

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Conclusion

Recording scripts can make things really easy later, if you have a lot of photos you want to, for example, add borders to. And you can also batch edit them with the File > Batch Process dialog. Select all the photos you want, select a script, and it applies that script to ALL the photos. So you can have a script that resizes your photos to web-safe sizes and adds borders, and you can do this with a hundred photos if you wanted.

Examples:

Here are images I’ve used the borders on.

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Craig Snedeker
My name is Craig Snedeker. I am a teenage web designer, graphic designer, video editor, and I do some game design, photography, and videpgraphy. And I also love playing video games, listening to music, watching movies, and reading books! Read my blog at craigps.info

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