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Rus Trawler
 

Getting thin black borders


All of the "processed" digital images I see everywhere have an automatic thin black border around them. I use PhotoSuite and there is no editing function for this. Anyone know how I get the border?

Thanks.

Rustie


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September 05, 2007

 
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  I'm not familiar with that software, but perhaps it has a similar feature as Elements... If you can enlarge the Canvas size (not the same as enlarging the Image size)---set your background fill color to black, and enlarge your Canvas size say, 2-4 pixels in width and height. That will (again, in Elements) create a black "border" at the perimeter of your image. You can control the thickness by simply enlarging by more pixels.


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September 05, 2007

 

Rus Trawler
  Thank you. This may very well work however it is too slow to process dozens of pictures. Practically every photo I see, even on the front page of a print newspaper, has a little black border. There must be some automatic program or feature that can do a whole file full of pictures to get this effect?

I take about 35K photos a year for real estate related work with Sony DSC cameras, and would love the little black border.

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Rus


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September 05, 2007

 

Alan N. Marcus
  Hi Rus,

Corel Paint Shop Pro, a low-cost competitor to Photo Shop, you can down-load a trial copy at www.corel.com, has a tool “add borders". You select width and color and presto-chango you get a border of your choice. Likely Photo Shop and it’s variants have a similar function.

Alan Marcus


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September 05, 2007

 

Rus Trawler
  Many thanks Alan, will try this.

Rus


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September 06, 2007

 
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