Borders on Photos - yes or no

[RonH]

Hei Christina ... I bet you did not anticipate such an active response to your question! To add my pennyworth, I like narrow 2 colour borders where the inner one reflects one of the colours in the picture. But as has been said, its all a question of personal taste.
Ron

[Brownbear]

Hola Ron,

Yes, indeed! I actually have a couple of questions on back-hold because I find that whenever I ask a question on this forum, I receive such great informative responses, that I need a little while to digest and try out the new info before moving onto something else... I will likely go with no borders until I figure it all out.

As always, thank you to everyone who replied.

[jcuknz]

At the risk of boring people with my adoration of Paint Shop Pro I would mention it has an 'add border' tool which permits one to add a border of any colour or B&W in any proportions on any side ... which seems a much simpler and flexible tool than the way John M apparently has to do it with his editor, no names, no pack drill

[John Morton]

At the risk of boring people with my adoration of Paint Shop Pro I would mention it has an 'add border' tool which permits one to add a border of any colour or B&W in any proportions on any side ... which seems a much simpler and flexible tool than the way John M apparently has to do it with his editor, no names, no pack drill

Sometimes I can follow 'step by step' Photoshop instructions; sometimes, I can't. Sometimes, instructions written by people who know what they are doing are a little too opaque for people like me who haven't a clue yet about what to do; and 'creating custom frames' was one of those ongoing "why isn't this working" moments for me.

Eventually, I settled upon a duplicate layer, a very narrow white stroke, and then a black stroke the width of the frame I wanted to create. I select the black stroke, buffered as it is from the image by the thin white stroke, and then I can "layer style" to my heart's content with textures, fills, gradients, bevels, or whatever else I want to apply.

When I first purchased my digital film scanner, I was using Paint Shop Pro initially because I found a free copy somewhere or other and, it support 16 bit TIFFs. I liked the program; but I did switch to Adobe before long, purchasing a student copy of Photoshop 7 through an Introductory Photoshop college course.. which allowed me to upgrade at a reasonable purchase rate into the Creative Suite range of applications when that was released (and I am a big fan and user of InDesign).

I won't try and fool anyone into thinking that I always (or even, often) find the best route to a desired photo processing end; but I usually do find my way there eventually, even if the route is somewhat long and convoluted! Always interested in hearing about and learning any "simpler is better" approaches, that is for sure ;-)