Simple black and white border in photoshop?

Lyndsey

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Hi there everyone, this is my first post on this forum, apologies if the subject has been covered already - I have done a quick search and not found the answer as yet! I'm new to photography and the madness that is photoshop, slowly dragging myself along a very steep learning curve!

I want to add a simple black and white border to my photos using Photoshop CS2. I have looked online and found that I can do this using "stroke" and "internal glow" layer effects, and saving this as a layer style - all good for the first image I tried it on...

However, the problem I'm finding is that because I'm defining the width of the border in pixels, I'm getting a different sized border on each subsequent photo, depending on how much I've cropped from the original image.... Quite obvious now I've thought it through, lol!

I size most of my photos at 8x6 inch, and want to be able to apply the same thickness internal border (approx 1/16th inch wide) to each image, irrespective of how many pixels long the sides are, if that makes sense??!! So that when I print my photos the border size is consistent throughout my album, and I dont alter the size ratio/canvas size of the image so it won't print properly....

Any assistance with what is probably very simples (but not to me at this moment!) would be gratefully received!

Thanks,

Lyndsey
 
You could create a plain black or white template at the size you need, then reduce your photo to (say) 95% before dropping it onto the template.
 
8x6 images should be 2400 pixels by 1800 pixels to print at 300dpi... if that helps...
 
Many thanks to you both for your replies - will see how I get on!
 
Select all, then go to edit then stroke, in the pop up box chose around 40px and colour black, option inside and then apply
Then same as above but chose 10px and colour white and apply.......and hey presto....a frame. (as long as I've remembered correctly ;) )
Other way round if you want larger white and smaller black.
 
Thanks for taking the time to reply chaps - it seemed like such a simple thing to want to do, but got me quite confused! My 'vision' has well exceeded my technical ability, lol! But as A. A. Milne wrote “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” Cheers again!
 
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