Borders - When do you use them?

[scuby]

Just wondering...

I've noticed that a lot of pictures that people post on here have borders, which strikes me as rather unusualvas i haven't noticed them much elsewhere on the web in the past. I accept that it may just be that, now i've noticed one, i always see them, where as i might have just ignored them in the past. But anyway, do people tend to add them only for specific circumstances, like forums where you can't necessarily control the background against which they're viewed, or do you add borders by default to all of your photos? For example, if you were doing a full-screen slideshow on your home PC, would you have a border then? Or on your own website / gallery - or is the fact that you can control the overall appearance of your own website enough to mean you don't feel you need one?

Just curious - it's not something i've ever bothered with before, but then not really considered it as an option either.

Cheers,

David

 

[nigpd]

100% use them, 100% of the time

 

[AnnaV]

I think they look great on the tinterweb. I actually print quite a lot of my photos and always frame them properly with an appropriately coloured mount, and the difference it makes to the photo is huge.

 

[Kerioak]

Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. It depends on the image and my mood and perception of it at the time. If I happen to be experimenting with borders then probably 100% at that time will have them, if I am not then only a few

 

[Damian Brown]

I used to use them a lot too, keyline border style with my logo in the corner. But I stopped a while back and find it fresher without now. But it's down to personal style I think.

 

[AJQS]

No and never. Depending on image some pics look best mounted in a traditional frame and some look best frameless or on canvas. But I never use digital borders when displaying pics on the internet.

 

[Deleted member 34016]

Not as yet- Ive only just bought Photoshop Elements 9 & still going through the tutorials to see how its done

They look good on B&W images though


Les

 

[TwentySixDays]

I use simple black edge borders some of the time. It depends on the image, some images need framing otherwise they blur into the webpage background and you lose the focus.
I use PSE7, and there is probably a proper way to do it, but I just resize the image to say 794 on the longest side, then up the canvas size to 800 and use paintbucket to fill the blank edge.

 

[boliston]

I definitely don't like web photos with borders as it just seems a bit fussy and pointless, but some people seem to just love them for some reason.