Adding borders around images

[StephenM]

Hi all,

I'm using a fairly old version of Photoshop (PS7), and would like to add black borders around some of my images. I was thinking of pasting the image as a layer on top of a dark frame, and then reducing the size of the image by about 5%. Is this the best approach or is there another trick that I'm not aware of? Adding a thin white line within the border would be nice too, but perhaps this is complicating things too much?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Stephen

[renormalised]

Go here....Noel Carboni's Astro Tools (http://actions.home.att.net/Astronomy_Tools_For_Full_Version.ht ml). That should be all you need (and then some):)

[spearo]

Stephen,
The cheap and easy alternative to buying software if you're already using PS is this:
when you've finished working on your image

click on "image " at top left
click "canvas size"
select "percent" from drop down
enter a value of say, 1 or 2 percent (experiment with this), ensuring "relative" box is ticked
you have the option to select a different color by clicking on the color box at the bottom,,and if you do you can even select from a sample from your own image,
(again experiment, its easy).

click "ok"
that's it
too easy
and free
frank

[Phil]

Just use the crop tool. Make the crop the size of the frame you want to use around the photo and press enter. Thats it.
Phil

[Clarry]

I make a new layer on top of everything, fill it with your desired frame colour, then control-click on the layer in the layers menu. It will now have marching ants around the outside of it. Now, in the top menu bar, go select-modify-contract, depending on your image size, about 20px will do (play around with it). Now press delete. Voila, a neat and easy frame.
To add a thin line as well, while the ants are still marching, go select-modify-expand. Maybe 5px will do. Swap to your Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee Tool, right click on the screen, you will get a menu option. Choose stroke, now you can decide on the colour & pixel width of the line you want. Lets say white & 1px. Press Ok then Control-D to deselect the line.
Don't forget, at any stage if you're not happy with the results, Control-alt-Z will take you back 1 step at a time to adjust things.

[StephenM]

Thanks very much guys!

Cheers,
Stephen