How can I deit a Borderart (.brd) file?

[mlk]

I am trying to change the background colour on the torn paper borderart with
little to no success. I have placed this around a text box and provided a
yellowed colour to the text box, but I am presented with a white gap before
we get to the actual black of the torn border - this is sending me insane! I
have searched the World Wide Wait to no avail, is there nobody else that is
trying to do this?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Select the border, copy, paste special as a .wmf (Windows Metafile), ungroup,
click yes, ungroup again, delete everything but the border, you will have to
adjust the corners. Select all, group, put your text box in the back.

 

[mlk]

Thanks for this Mary, this is way too involved and complex for me... surely,
there must be some way to create a new brd file from scratch. In the end, I
went around the problem by creating a "torn paper" effect in Photoshop as the
whole piece of paper and then used it as the Picture background for the Text
box. In the end, I feel it has turned out a much better result, but for ease
of use and flexibility, I would much prefer either the ability to set a
background colour for BorderArt, or to simply edit the things... ah, well,
suppose we cant all have what we want.

Again, thank you for your expert and quick response.

 

[mlk]

Thanks for this Mary, this is way too involved and complex for me... surely,
there must be some way to create a new brd file from scratch. In the end, I
went around the problem by creating a "torn paper" effect in Photoshop as the
whole piece of paper and then used it as the Picture background for the Text
box. In the end, I feel it has turned out a much better result, but for ease
of use and flexibility, I would much prefer either the ability to set a
background colour for BorderArt, or to simply edit the things... ah, well,
suppose we cant all have what we want.

Again, thank you for your expert and quick response.