How to Create your Own Photoshop Borders

Posted on: Sunday, 20 November, 2011
 
 


 

This is the basic tutorial for creating Photoshop borders. Through this tutorial you will learn how to frame your digital photo with Photoshop borders in easy and simple steps.

  1. Open photo or image that you want to frame.

    Sample Photo that will be framed with Photoshop

  2. Go to Layer menu → New → Layer From Background and name it “Photo”.



    Naming layer in Photoshop

  3. Go to Layer menu → Layer Style → Blending Options.

    Photoshop Blending Option

    On the Blending Option style, check Inner Shadow and give the setting shown on the screenshot below.

    Adjusting Photoshop Inner Shadow Style

    Now the photo has been framed by a solid black border.

    The sample photo thats bordered with solid black color

    You can change both color and size of the border by adjusting the color and the size of shadow.

    Setting color and border size in Photoshop layer style

    Photoshop Bordered Photo

    For more realistic view you can apply bevel and emboss effect to the border.

    Setting Photoshop Bevel and Emboss style

    And here is the final result.

    Here is the final result of bordered photo we achieved with Photoshop

That’s all for now! Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

 


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