Advanced Tech Borders

Result:

Alright, since i hear a lot of people asking me about how i make those smooth nice looking techy-ish borders on my work. Well i would like to pass on my skill on to you people by doing a tutorial on it! :D

1. First, open photoshop, File>New. Pick how big you want your sig to be ( i chose 400 by 150).

2. In this tutorial I'm going to use a Black background. Here's what i will use, you can use this too, if you want:

3. Now time to add in those nice borders, first click on the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L).

4. Now use the Polygonal Lasso tool to select out where the border and the size of the border you want it to be.

5. DONT DESELECT! Keep the selection there, and press ctrl+shift+I or you can right click and click on "Select Inverse" once that is done, it should look like this:

6. Still not deselecting, keeping the selection there, fill the spot with black.

7. Next, deselect (ctrl+d) Now we add color/texture and all that. So right click on the layer that you just filled in and click on Blending Options. Now the Layer Style Window Comes up and this is what your settings should be:

8. Now click ok and there's you nice smooth border. Now you can finish off here but if you want to add more detail and have a nicer look you can continue by doing the next step.

OPTIONAL STEP

If you do not wish to do this step, you can skip it.

9. Now that you have the smooth border, you can add detail by:

*Using the Single Row Marquee Tool

* Using the Single Column Marquee Tool

To get these tools, you have to hold and click on the Rectangular Marquee Tool

To add detail with these tools, you click the tool on your design and then press delete.

10. You can also use the Elliptical Marquee Tool and cut out circles by selecting a spot and then pressing delete:

You can download the tech styles from the following links:

AK-TechBorder1

AK-TechBorder2

AK-TechBorder3

This concludes our tutorial, you should have something similar to this: