Three Simple Ways to Add Image Borders in Photoshop

Here are three simple ways to add a border in Photoshop.
In this video, I share three simple techniques you can use to add a border to a photo using Photoshop. Use the first method to add a simple black, white, or coloured border to an image. The second method can also produce the same result, or you can refine it to produce a “Burned Edges” border effect. The third method is a great way to add a border in order to create an image with a set aspect ratio like 1:1.
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[@trentb4631]

Great short instructional video that delivered exactly what I was looking for, thank you.

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad it was helpful. Thank you

[@georgetran1766]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.❤

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@heddybell]

This was a great help to me. Thank you.😀

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. It's great to hear it was useful.

[@SurferKroky]

So clear and precise . Fantastic tutorials man 🙏

[@RobinWhalley]

I'm glad you like them. Thank you.

[@SurferKroky]

@@RobinWhalley very welcome , the way you edit and explain everything slowly and clearly is so refreshing , thanks again

[@b1txh]

thank you so much! as the others have said, your instruction is short yet very clear! i used your 3rd method to do mine

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. That's exactly what I'm aiming for. I don't want to waste peoples time with long videos that could be much shorter.

[@b1txh]

@@RobinWhalley very cool indeed, there's not many people here in youtube who make youtube videos with that mindset anymore

[@RobinWhalley]

@@b1txh Thank you. Yes, there are too many people making 18-minute videos in an attempt to get the algorithm to love them. I would rather you watch three 6-minute videos instead. Time is valuable, and we need to respect it.

[@framethemoment.photography]

Thanks for sharing such a detailed video. Adding borders in Photoshop never looked this easy.

[@RobinWhalley]

You're very welcome. Thank you.

[@JehZHD]

If anyone is trying to this for iPhone, the Instagram app no longer has an option to change mode from light to dark, you can change it in the iPhone settings although it changes it for every app that supports the feature, you can't change it for individual apps as far as I know. IPhone settings > Display & Brightness.

[@cukcan]

what if we have a scanned file which includes 2 images and we want to add borders for each of these 2 images. how can we do it? Thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

That would really depend on how you wanted the finished image to look. Are both images still in the same file ir do you want to separate them? DO they have the same border or different borders? I would probably start by separating the two images using the Rectangular marquee tool to copy them to new documents. You can then process each as you want to. After that, you can combine them back into a single image if that's what you want.

[@cukcan]

@@RobinWhalley That's the point. First of all thank you for the reply. Actually what I need is, I have around 4000 scanned files which each file has 2 images. I want to save these images seperately. For this, I have tried "Crop and Straighten Photos" feature under Automate. However it didn't crop some of images correctly. Most probably is because edges of images are not clear and near the background color (white), so I think PS cannot recognize edges. For this reason I decided to make dark color border, so that I will be able to use Crop and Straighten Photos. BUT If you have any better idea how to seperate these images, please do share with me. Thank you so much

[@RobinWhalley]

Try the Select Subject feature. It might pull out both images with one command.

[@IAmJustSaying6]

My layer style box is different than this tutorial.

[@RobinWhalley]

When I recorded this (not long ago) I used the latest version of Photoshop CC. This is the standard Styles dialog, although you may see different controls if you have a different style option clicked.