How to get vintage "deckle edge" border?

[enxio27]

How can I get a vintage "deckle edge" border, similar to photos 100 or more years ago? (See example below--you will have to look closely at the photo to see the actual edge. It should look like a ragged line.) Ideally, I would like for the border to be dynamically sized, similar to what the Add Border filter does now.

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[Wallace]

How can I get a vintage "deckle edge" border, similar to photos 100 or more years ago? (See example below--you will have to look closely at the photo to see the actual edge. It should look like a ragged line.)

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Ideally, I would like for it to be dynamically sized, similar to what the Add Border filter does now.

I made this image, by first making a rectangle selection.
Then going to Select > Distort and using the setting seen below.
Play with the Distortion setting, to get the kind of distress you're looking to recreate.

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This is my resulting image, after adding a drop shadow and filling it with black.

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Below is the xcf file I used, to create this image.
Which should contains the selection I made and save to the Channels dialog.

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[Wallace]

I've used various setting, using Distort Selection.
To show the different degrees, which can be achieved.

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[oldmangrumpy]

Wallace - real good explanation.

[Wallace]

Wallace - real good explanation.

Thanks OMG.

[Issabella]

Thank you so much Wallace. Helpful answer and shots with settings.

[Wallace]

Thank you so much Wallace. Helpful answer and shots with settings.

Thanks Issabella.
I hope it is close to what enxio27 was trying to achieve .

[rich2005]

There is another way, use a grayscale brush as a stamp using the eraser tool. A photograph deckle edge was typically symmetrical. I have one or two with diferent patterns this screenshot is a repeating rounded one.

Books would have that torn deckle edge and Wallaces example is as good as you get. I could never get a good result with select-distort and eventuall scanned a strip of torn paper. Can't get more realistic than that, still using it. That was in Gimp 2.6 days & needed both horizontal and vertical. No rotate brush then, all you need now is one.



When you make your own, make them big, two sided for top/bottom, left/right set spacing to 100. Then size the brush down to suit the image, and of course you can erase in straight lines with shift-click or nibble away at the edge.

[enxio27]

@Wallace and @ric@rich2005 , thank you both SO much!! I can't wait to play with these!

[Pat625]

Wallace, I am missing something. How did you get the torn edging on the outside of the border, not the inside. Can you make it on the inside and outside of the border?