: How can I go about designing this border? It's thicker in the middle and gets thinner on the left and right.

@Heady304

The simplest way would be to create the line in Illustrator first then import into photoshop to finish.


Create a line and add a 1pt stroke
Using the width tool - expand the centre of the line to your desired width.
Copy, paste in to photoshop
Gaussian blur to desired effect
Create layer mask and erase edges for added bleed.

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@Deb5748823

What I normally do for those is make a short horizontal line as thick as you want in the center of your document, rasterize it, then use motion blur on it with a horizontal angle as long as you need it to be.

Make a line whatever thickness you want



Convert to Smart Object



Go to filter > blur > motion blur



Make the angle set to 0 and add as much blur as you need to make the effect work



It's not necessarily thinner at the sides, but the fadeout makes it look this way.

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