: How do I make the White outline border How do I make the outline as pictured?

@Holmes874

Assuming you're in Photoshop:


have your shape as a layer without any background
select your shape by Magic Wand (tolerace=255)
expand the selection to the wanted size (Select > Modify > Expand)
create two more layers - White and Grey - below the shape
floodfill the selections in layers: White by white, Grey by BLACK
remove the selection (you can get it back using the shape)
Gaussian Blur the Grey layer(black spreads as grey)


It's well possible that you must a little bit smoothen the edge in the White layer to remove the jaggies and to make it overall less offensive. Then, select the white shape, invert the selection, feather it and press DEL.

See a screenshot; this is a MS Word clipart cow



Assuming you're in Ai or otherwise work in vector domain


make a copy of your shape
if it's a group, then Ungroup all
merge all subshapes together as an union
stretch the result to wanted size
select white fill and grey outline; alternatively select no outline and insert effect Outer Glow, set glow color=grey
put it under your shape


Assuming you're composing in a DTP application: Explore the available object effects. It's well possible to find a suitable glow or shadow or a combination of them.

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