Creating Frames and Borders in Luminar 4.3

[@robertavery8002]

Many thanks Gary - as a newcomer to Luminar 4, your very helpful videos are much appreciated.

[@twopoolpeople]

Thank you Gary. AGAIN! Your videos on making "photos" really helped me learn Luminar and keep creative & busy during these times.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Thanks for watching Henry, glad you are finding them useful😀👍👍

[@georgedemetriou1496]

Many thanks Gary. As always very informative and very generous of you to provide the downloads.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Thanks for watching George and you are very welcome😁🙏👍

[@richsq1]

I am a beginner and I just watched your video and it is fantastic. I use to go in Photoshop to do that. Finish now. Luminar all the way. Thank you very much.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Glad you enjoyed and found it helpful Rich. Thanks for watching😁🙏👍

[@davidjames1817]

Thanks Gary. I've only just started using Luminar and your videos are helping tremendously with the learning process. Cheers!

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Many thanks David glad you are finding them helpful 😀👍👍

[@hervedolat4473]

Nice tutorial, i will use your method to adding a border on my images. Thanks Gary !

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Many thanks, glad you found it useful, thanks for watching😁🙏👍

[@kevinharding1181]

Thanks for this excellent tutorial - I was pulling my hair out trying to achieve this in either ON1 or Luminar !

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Glad you found it helpful Kevin, thanks for watching 😁👍👍

[@leksasdf]

Great video! Many times I've wanted to add a 4x5 image to instagram to follow a 1x1 image but couldn't be arsed because I didn't know a way to add borders in Luminar :D

[@Kit2Canada]

Excellent demonstration, thank you.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Thanks for watching Kit. Glad you found it useful 😁🙏👍

[@shirishpandey3503]

Very interesting Gary, thank you

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Glad you enjoyed it Shirish, thanks for watching 🙏😁👍

[@JohnHPettigrewFujishooter67]

Will use this for sure in my videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@Ilene1020]

Very helpful, Gary! Thanks!

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Very welcome Ilene😁👍🙏

[@IanElson28]

Tried it , done it, love it!! Thank you very much!!

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Glad it worked for you Ian, thanks for watching 🙏😁👍

[@vaschro]

Very very useful video, especially as borders seem to be trend on instagram at the moment, but I think they also can really accentuate a photo. I've downloaded the files also , with thanks John Fitz

[@jimfok4343]

Something new to try. Thank you! -Elaine

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Thanks for watching Elaine, glad you enjoyed it🙏😁👍

[@victorcarmelo8606]

Hi Gary, thanks for another great tutorial. In PSE 14 and earlier I could do this with the line brush. I used to like to add shading of light and dark grey inside the frame and give the it more depth. Assume can do this with more layers of these grey shades and stack them on top of each other although the tricky part would be getting top and left in light grey and bottom and right in dark grey.without obscuring either shade. Maybe another video from you will sort this conundrum ha ha!!! Over to you Master. Regards.

[@rogerwalton8160]

Very useful thank you.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Very welcome Roger😁👍🙏

[@larryfitzpatrick4673]

Thank you, I download and used the templetes

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Very welcome Larry, hope you find them useful. Thanks for watching 🙏😁👍

[@charliejeong839]

Thanks for great video !

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching 😀👍👍

[@dudelow95]

Thank you !!!

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it 😀👍👍

[@PaPaMoSSi]

Hey Gary, thank you for this tutorial, very useful. One question. The saved new ones with black border are 192 KB vs the original jpeg at 8.9 meg. Is that normal? Many thanks

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

No it shouldn't be but perhaps my files are low re for download I actually cant remember sorry. If they are and you place your files withing them it will take up the base file size. That sounds like it may be the issue 😀👍👍

[@332211max112233]

I have a question. I want to have a 5:7 pic with a frame of 2 Block each side. But every Time,I try to do this, it always has more block on one side. If I use the free crop, it change automatically the Size of the Picture.Do you have any suggestions?

[@ikbenchris1]

Love this. How do I make a grid in PS? Thanks

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Hi Chris and thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. To create a grid in photoshop : File new > 50 x 50px Draw two lines through centre > 1 vertical and 1 horizontal Combine/merge these two layers together. Turn off background layer goto Edit>Define Pattern (name the pattern) Create a new blank document of any size. Goto the paint bucket tool and along the address bar at the top, instead of foreground change that to pattern. select your newly created pattern and click anywhere on your new document. Hope that helps😀👍👍

[@ikbenchris1]

@@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer Thanks Gary

[@colorline4]

Big thanks

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Thanks for watching 😁👍👍

[@cadencecreeker]

Hi Gary, I just got an email from Skylum saying that they are coming out with a new product Luminar AI. It is not an upgrade to Luminar 4, but a new product that they are releasing to replace Luminar 4. It looks like it is just an improved version of Luminar 4. It is supposed to be easier and faster. I was wondering if you have heard anything about it? Do you think that it is worth the upgrade? I am curious to hear your thoughts. Dean

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Hi Dean, its a completely new software all AI powered under the hood. It's definitely not an upgrade to Luminar4.3 although they are continuing with updates for 4.3 for another year. I attended the briefing about it and am definitely very interested to see what it can do ie not test driven it yet though from a users point of view. But from what I've seen it looks good. It provides you with quicker results and no more layer editing, which I was unsure about but there's a tool brush that has the flexibility of layer editing (hard to explain that one without seeing it in practice) so it would make it easier for users that struggle with layers to get the same results quickly. I'll do a video on it once I have test driven it but at the moment they are giving you an early bird offer plus a 30 day money back guarantee if its not for you so I think that's a fair deal 😁 Post processing changes and evolves all the time so it'll be great to see what it can do in the hands of users. Plus with the money back guarantee you can't go wrong😁👍

[@cadencecreeker]

@@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer Thank you Gary for the information. I am looking forward to hearing what you think about it when you get your hands on it. I did purchase it...with a discount (which is only available for limited time) and a 30 day trial period, I would be crazy not to. Thanks again. Take care. Dean

[@berniemoskowitz1438]

great thank you. One question. In the second picture, you started with the image and then covered it and then brought the image again. What ever happened to the first base image? Also when do you work on the picture? before you start the border and then save it? Thanks. Really fantastic and creative

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Hi Bernie and thanks for watching. To answer your 2nd question first, I edited and saved it earlier. As for the base layer in the 2nd image thats underneath the white and was measly added to create the overall dimensions of 7k x 4k pixels. Hope that answers your questions 😁👍🙏

[@berniemoskowitz1438]

@@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer Thank you !!

[@DavGilmPF]

Can I save it as a sort of template that I can use it by more images.

[@ahmetanak]

Hello, this video has been very useful. But there is something I want to ask. You first started by adding a new image layer and added an edited jpeg. Can we edit RAW and do this at the end, or is yours the only option? Thanks.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Glad you enjoyed it. You would be able to in L4.3 & Luminar AI just by adding a border at the end but you would lose the width of the border of your image. Thanks for watching 😀👍👍

[@ahmetanak]

@@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer I already asked to Skylum. They said that only at the beginning put a new white image layer and second put the photo. How can we put the border at the end? Thank you.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

@@ahmetanak Yeah it's using the method I've shown or only by adding it as a texture but as I mentioned you will lose some of the image unfortunately

[@ahmetanak]

@@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer I guess you mean put a texture at the end and apply masking the texture, right? Or any other way you say?

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

@@ahmetanak yeah but remember you will lose the border amount of your image if you apply it at the end :)

[@regansalamander8185]

Excellent! Now...here is the next challenge: how to add a thin, black border around the image to simulate full-frame printing. So the end result would be an image with a thin black border printed on a white paper. THANKS! in advance.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

Hi Regan, hope this helps... Edit your image and then add a pre-created thin edge image layer( as per last video except thinner) then export your image. Then follow the steps in 2nd image of this video. Does that make sense? Thanks for watching🙏😁👍

[@regansalamander8185]

Gary McIntyre Photographer thanks, Gary! I’ll give it a try.

[@phlotographer]

@@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer you mention "last video" maybe I missed it so if you can put the yt link into the top comments about this video that would be helpful to all of us and new viewers. Maybe in the first video, also link to this video. TIA. Saved this one and the templates to a couple of folder locations for just when I need them. Again thanks.

[@GaryMcIntyrePhotographer]

@@phlotographer glad you enjoyed it and here's the link to the last video kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3yqeIWwjL58jJo