Quick help - adding a white border in PS?

[kitschenalia]

Hi there, my bride has requested a few couple shots with a white border, for thank you cards. I've never added a border before and being a tech dummy, can't work it out. Anyone know?

 

[jcoutts]

There are two ways, either quick Edit>Stroke making sure you have the White colour set on your Foreground/Background palette.

Or if you don't want to lose any of the picture, then modify the canvas size, and expand it.

http://www.turningturnip.co.uk/phot...torials/tutorials-2/photoshop-canvas-size.php

Practice with a throwaway picture first.

 

[Sloper]

There's another way.

Use the crop tool to select the whole of the picture, then use the corner grab handles to extend the crop larger than the pic. This increases the canvas size, which is filled with your selected background colour when you hit Enter.

 

[Markk]

There's another way.

Use the crop tool to select the whole of the picture, then use the corner grab handles to extend the crop larger than the pic. This increases the canvas size, which is filled with your selected background colour when you hit Enter.

But you might not get a perfectly symmetrical border as this is user dependant.

I change my background colour to white, and then go into canvas size, and increase height and width without selecting any arrows.

 

[Sloper]

But you might not get a perfectly symmetrical border as this is user dependant.

That's true, but it's a very quick way, and I find if it looks right, it usually is

 

[kitschenalia]

thanks so much everyone! I couldn't use "stroke" (not highlighted) for some reason, I went with Marrk's way as I wanted precise.

 

[Sloper]

thanks so much everyone! I couldn't use "stroke" (not highlighted) for some reason, I went with Marrk's way as I wanted precise.

If you make a selection, say with the rectangular marquee tool around your image, you should find the Stroke command is then enabled.

 

[swanseamale47]

CTRL+A (select all) first then edit/stroke.