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how can i add a simple black border to a photograph i took in photoshop?

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EDIT: .....and welcome to the forum..........

wmaburnett wrote:how can i add a simple black border to a photograph i took in photoshop?

Is that what you meant to ask? Or did you mean to ask how you can add a simple black border in Photoshop to a photograph you took? The difference is subtle: not many people take photographs in photoshop.

The simplest answer would be to use
Image->Canvas Size...
Select "Relative", select "Black" as the Canvas extension color, then if you want to add a 3-pixel border specify 6 more pixels for the height and width. The default will be to keep the original image in the centre, but you can play with the Anchor if you need to.

Or you can for simple borders use the Canvas Size option.

Hi

Another way that I use a lot is using combination of the Drawing Rectangle and Styles on a Canvas.

1. A create a new canvas larger then the image that has to have the boarder
2. I move the image to the canvas
3. I draw a Rectangle around the image using the Drawing Rectangle tool (note you can resize the rectangle to fit smugly around the image or with a bit of space to give a thicker boarder or a white space depending on the Style used in the next step.
4. Using Layers/Arrange send the new Layer (the boarder) to the Back - this bring the image to the front.
5. Using Styles and colours, change the style of the boarder till I find one I like. Note changing colours to black will give a black boarder that is wanted (click on the colur rectangle on the top of thescreen).
6. Then flatten and save as JPEG or Tiff to print.

This give me versitility in the boarder creation

CS2 has some greate Styles which covert into great look alike boarders.

I agree with all of the other methods provided in this thread as well which are a bit easier then this method I admit.

Steve

Hopefully still on the theme of this thread!

I often crop from a photo, using a frame that will give me a 10*8 print.

How do I add a border and still maintain the same ratio of height to width, so that when I fill the page in CS print, the photo uses all the printed page

I think that you will find that there is a scale to fit option in Print with Preview.

Another option: which I often use...

- start with your image
- change b/ground colour to BLACK
- Ctrl+C (copy)
- Ctrl+N (new), then enter
- Ctrl+V (paste)
- Ctrl+E (flatten layers)
- Ctrl+C (copy)
- Ctrl+N (new)
- add 20px to both height & width (which will give a 10px border)
[change above step to whatever border width you require]
- make sure "background contents" has background colour selected
- press enter
- Ctrl+V (paste)
- Ctrl+E (flatten layers)

You should now have a black border around your image.

This usually takes me about 10-15 seconds to do manually...

Using these same steps, you can record your own PS Action, so this will become a one click process.

Hope this helps....

select all, stroke with black foreground, inside, and select the amount of pixels you want