211 framing your digital photos

Framing your digital photos

You can enhance your digital image by putting a frame round in it in photo shop or other photo editing software

                                 A simple video showing how to putt a border on your image

I have chose 4 simple borders to try on my image to see which one will look best on my digital blog

                                                       my original image with out a border

The first border is a simple black border with a thin inner white border
to do this you open your image up in photoshop

First to make sure your inner border is white press d

Then you make your image smaller to make it easy to work something like 10 " on the longest side

To make the thin white inner border you you go to image and canvas size and putt in a small size i tyred 00.7 inch's to show a very thin white border so press OK and you will See a very slim white border around your image

Now to make the larger black border you need to change the background colour back to black so press x

Then you go to canvas size and putt in how big you want your bigger outer border i putt in 2 incs then press OK and there you have simple black border with a inner white border

You can see the inner white border and the larger black border

Experiment with different sizes of borders in till you think the photo is shown to its best

The final image with black inner white border

Another border you can try is a round border

First of all make sure your image is a workable size and choose a colour for your border

Then go to canvas size and putt in your border size like before

Now you go down to the round rectangle tool on the left and choose a radious size for your rounded border

Then you go to the top and pick the path option in the middle of the 3 squares and pick a radius for your rounded border i used a size of 25 pixels

Then all you do is drag the cursor from the left of the image to the right and and you go to select and press inverse and then make sure your foreground colour is the right colour and go to edit and fill and you should have your rounded border

Final image with black rounded border

Now I'm gonna try the image with a drop shadow effect

First i duplicated my layer and i used white as my background colour

and done the same as above by going to canvas size and making a white border

i then i went to layer and choose layer style and i went to drop shadow and worked on the

The levels in till i got the best result

Final image with a drop shadow

I also tyred a simple brown border

Final brown border

I also watched this video on borders

                                          

And came up with this border

So there are many different options on putting a border on your particular image sometimes just a simple border will work best or depends on the image .