Adding a Frame - Part I

A frame can give the photograph a smart and professional look. Frames can also be used to separate the picture from the background when image borders are not clearly defined. You can create great looking frames for your images in Photoshop or with other photo-editing software - I will add a Photoshop tutorial in one of my future posts.

1) To be as flexible as possible don’t add a border to the picture itself in Photoshop - instead the framing happens in the HTML-Code or in the CSS-Stylesheet.

no border	border 2px, padding 4px

2) Some easy-to-use image editors such as a Paint Shop Pro and Picnik allow you to directly add a frame.

For example, Picnik allows you to add different frames with Create -> Frames. Then you can choose between a number of different styles. Two are shown below.

Border	Museum Matte

If you use Paint Shop Pro X2 all you have to do to add the border is go to Image —> Add Borders. Type in the size of the borders you want, pick the color and click on Ok.