For your regular old, run-of-the-mill simple border:
1. Creat a new layer
2. Select all
3. Edit > Stroke. Select pixel width.
4. Resize however you’d like it and done!
Photoshop: Easy border October 21, 2008
This is a really fun and easy way to create a cool border for your photos to jazz them up and ready for printing.
1. Make a new blank document: 12×7 inches, 100dpi with a white background
2. Make new layer
3. Select the lasso tool (regular, not the magnetic lasso) and simply scribble a rectangle. Really, scribble.
4. Fill the selection with black using the paint bucket.
5. Open an image you are creating the border for.
6. Drag the black scribbly “border” over your image. Note, it will not look like a border yet. Stretch it out and/or rotate it so that it covers most of your image.
7. Double-click the image layer (background layer now) to make it a regular layer and drag it above the border. The border will disappear behind it now.
8. Option+click between the two layers to create a clipping group. Now your border will appear.
9. Create a new layer on the bottom (hold command+click the new layer icon in the layers pallet) and fill it with white.
10. Double-click on the border layer to add a drop shadow and adjust it to your liking. Done!
I jazzed up the photo and added some text for this corny, yet memorable photo!
