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Border Tips And Tricks

Let's have some border bustin good fun and learn the niftiest tricks to making borders change their shapes and sizes without loosing their original design.  We are going to cut and paste, color and paint with the tools you already have on your computer.  We don't have to go south of the border to have a border party.  It is time to play around with borders. 

1. What to do if your borders are too thick for your project.
2. The Red Candy Cane Border Trick Using Windows 95/98 Paint.
3. America's Ranch Brands
4. Christmas tree art from p_deco.bmp border trick.

1. What to do if your borders are too thick for your project.

You might find that these borders are just too thick.  The horses and riders are nice but you wanted to put more words in between.  In a Publisher program, you can do marvelous things.  On a vertical page lay down four borders two across and two down and shrink them by 50% like the borders you see here.  Then lay a text box over top of the borders hiding the center graphics.  Now select the text box and  import your text.

If you only have a word processor and it will let you shrink graphics, then go to a paint program like Windows Paint or Windows Paintbrush and cut and past these borders to a screen that has the image attributes set to 1280 x 1746 in pixel size.  You will have to select [view] [zoom out] to select that large of a graphic in the paint program.  Then you can hope that the word processor will let you shrink a graphic that is that big.  Better yet, make life easy, get a publisher program. 

If you are trying to do a horizontal page set your image attributes to 873 x 1280 and paste two borders side by side in the paint program or a publisher, how ever you wish.  These are ideas of what can be done.  I will cover this in a step by step instructions in another package.  Have fun  learning the exciting things your paint program can do.

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3. The Red Candy Cane Border Trick Using Windows 95/98 Paint.

NOTE:  The  " P_CANDY.BMP"  file is found in the Western Holiday Volume #2 package.  This trick will work on other graphics as well.  OK, So where is the magic eraser in WINDOWS 95 PAINT program?  It is hiding under your right mouse button.  Select the color you want to erase with the left mouse button and select the color you want it to become with the right mouse button then go erase something with the right mouse button.  Those candy canes don't have a chance they are going to be red in Windows 95 Paint too.  Here is how to do it.
1. Select [File]then select [Open] & select the P_CANDY.BMP border.
2. Select [File] then select [Save As] & give this border a new name before you start to edit.  Let's call it REDCANDY.BMP. Then Select [256 Color Bitmap] in your [Save As files of type] box in the lower left corner of the Save As Window.  Select [OK]. 
3. You are back in the paint program and the palette bar at the bottom now has colors in it.
4. At the bottom of your screen is a palette bar of colors on the left is a white box on the bottom with a black box on the top. 
5. Here is the trick.  Place your cursor on the color red and click the right mouse button.
6. Place your cursor on the color black and click the left mouse button
7. On the left side of the screen there is a tool bar a couple of erasers and some other tools we are interested in the eraser just above the paint roller.  Place the cursor on the eraser and click the left mouse button to select it.
8. Now here is the fun part.  Place the cursor box on the candy border and press down on the right mouse button and move it over the candy.
9. To make each piece of candy a different color by changing the color of the bottom box.
10. The top box is the color that we want to change.  The bottom box is the color it will become.
12. When you are done select [File] select [Save] you have already changed the name so you don't need to do a [Save As] unless you want to place the graphic in a special directory.

May your Holidays be filled with sweet things & good looking candy.

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4. America's Ranch Brands

Did you ever try reading the ranch brands in Western Clipart Volume #1?  Tell me that you didn't get a kick out of some of those brands in Western Clip Art Vol. #1, in the columns, line graphics and borders, when you figured out what they said.  Did you ever find the Christmas brand in the Western Clip Art Vol. #1 and the naughty brand?  What about the brand that said Too lazy to __?  That was a real ranch brand I saw on a ranch sign while driving around the country it was really pretty funny when we first saw it. 
 

Americas Ranch Brands A brand is the Rancher Mark and Family Crest in America, just as the Coat of Arms is the Family Crest in Europe.  Please Respect the Mark of the American Rancher.  Brands should be read from bottom to top from left to right and lastly from out side to center.  At lease that was how my grand father said that they should be read.  I will name a few and you can see if you can find them.  The Y Triple Ott, Flying K, Box T, the Rocking T, Slide 37, the Looking Glass Ranch, the XT,  Half Circle T,  the Flying Bar V, Snake River Ranch, the Walking A,  Circle A, Bar X Bar, Double Gable, Morning Ray,  3 Strikes, the Spur, the G Bar Tell, and the Crows Foot to name a few.  Some of these brands are very old and some are still in use today.  If you are looking for a brand for your ranch you can not just copy one of these and say it is your brand.  Make up your own and the talk to the Department of Agriculture in your area they should be able to tell you how to register a new  brand just like the ranchers did years ago.

 

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Christmas tree art from p_deco.bmp border trick.

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