A Simple Touch To Make Professional Looking Pictures

Borders
Requirements: Photoshop or Gimp
Level of Difficulty: Easy

Ok, so what this does is add a simple black or white(or whatever color you want) border to your pictures. This creates that professional touch to just about any picture! Here's what you need to do: (Full article http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Computer_Center/Software/852.php

For photoshop: By far the easiest method to add a simple border is by using the ‘stroke' command in Photoshop. To do this, begin by selecting the entire photo (Select>>All), then choosing the stroke command (Edit>>Stroke). You'll be asked to choose how wide you want the border to be in pixels, as well as what color. The more pixels, the wider the border will be. I usually stick to one or two pixels wide.



You can leave the rest of the settings alone, but feel free to fool around with them! Using a different blend mode can yield interesting effects. For instance, by using "soft light" here with a navy blue color, I was able to create a border that still showed the photo underneath.




For gimp: The filter to add a border is in Filter > Decor > Add Border. (Note: for newer versions there might not be a decor option, but there is still an add border option in one of the other filters, just look ) There you can adjust the thickness and color of your border and viola!

Very nice Peter