Photoshop Finishing Touches

Technique #52. Creating a Filmstrip

Create this filmstrip once using Shape layers and you’ll have a template you can reuse—and that can easily be scaled to different sizes.

key concepts:

free transform

adjustment layers

Step One.

Create a new document that’s larger than you need. My document was 7×5" at a resolution of 200 ppi (using Shape layers means that you can resize the filmstrip later if you need to). Press D to set black as the Foreground ...