How to Make Pictures With Colored Borders
A picture without a border may appear bare and incomplete, while a border makes your pictures feel complete. When deciding on a colorful border for your pictures, select colors and styles that will complement your pictures. Sample non-dominant colors from the image for your borders. Use of dominant colors on the border may appear to compete with the dominant colors in the image.
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Instructions
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Adobe Fireworks
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Go to "File" and "Open" the picture to create a colored border.
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Select the Rectangle Tool from the vector section of the Tools Panel if your image is square or rectangle. If the image is circular, click on the Ellipse Tool from the vector section.
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Click on the corner of the image and draw the rectangle to fit each corner of the image. If the rectangle fills with color, turn it off in the Properties Panel located at the bottom of the interface. Click on the square to the right of the paintbucket icon and select the square with a line through it.
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Click on the Stroke Tool to the right of the Fill. The stroke appears as a pencil icon.
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Select the square next to the icon. The Eyedrop Tool will instantly appear, allowing you to pick a color for the border.
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Click the down arrow to the right of the Stroke icon to change the Tip Size of the border to at least 30.
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Give the border a pattern using the Stroke Category next to the Tip Size. Fireworks provides several patterns for border options.
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Go to "File" and "Save As" to save your image. PNG is the default format for Fireworks, but you can also save the image as TIFF, EPS, GIF or JPEG.
GIMP
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Select "File" and "Open." Find the picture you want to apply a color border to. Go to the Layers Window located on the right side of the interface. In the lower left corner, click the paper icon to create a new layer above the image.
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Click "Foreground Color" in the Layer Fill Type section. Where it reads "Layer name," name the layer "Color Border." Click "OK." A color-filled rectangle covers the entire image. Don't worry about this for now.
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Select the Foreground/Background color tool from the Toolbox Window. Select a color for the border. Click "OK." Click the Bucket Tool and click on the colored rectangle to change the color.
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Click the Rectangle Selection Tool from the Toolbox Window, which is on the left side of the interface. Use this rectangle to cut a square that will leave only a narrow border around the image.
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Move the cross hairs of the rectangle to the top left edge of the colored rectangle. Click and drag the cross hairs from the top left corner to the bottom right corner and release the mouse. Hit the delete key on the keyboard. The selected portion of the colored rectangle will be deleted, leaving a colored border on the image.
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