Lightroom and Photoshop both will add any color or width border you choose. In
the menus and options, it’s called Stroke. In LR, it’s in the print panel,
right at the top. In Photoshop, it’s under the Edit menu, right below fill.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mar 29, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'm sure there are many ways to add a black border like this with
> different pieces of software but, if using PhotoShop (and probably PS
> Elements and Lightroom as well) I would do it by using the "canvas size"
> option. For example, if the image was already sized for a print of
> 16x20" and you desired to add a 1/4" black border all the way around you
> would resize the canvas to 16.5x20.5". Select the canvas color as black
> and the resizing to be done from the center and you'll get a 1/4" black
> border all around. If you then wanted to add a 2" white "matte"
> surround do the same thing by specifying the size as 20.5"x24.5" with a
> white canvas color.
>
> I don't recall if using the canvas size option allows you to choose
> other than black or white for the canvas color (but suspect that it
> does). I'm sending this on my wife's new laptop which does not have any
> image processing software installed at the moment so can't check it.
> I tried to install FastStone on it today but it would not install for
> some reason. I suspect an odd permissions problem since install
> couldn't write any file but need to check into that.
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/29/2014 10:35 AM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> a photograph by a local photographer, Russ McLean.
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=12067
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> However, more specifically, I notice that somehow he has added a
>> darker hue to a rectangular zone around the margin of this print.
>>
>> Can anyone here advise what software will do that?
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