Create Cool Photo Edges with Photoshop

This is a simple tutorial to show you some techniques on how to create some nice borders for your images.

To start off, open the image you want to edit (be sure to make a back up of it first, we dont want to lose the original)

Press "D" to reset your color palette back to black and white.

Now go to Image->Canvas Size.

For the width and height, add 30 pixels to the current size. If your current size is 400 x 500, you'll add 30 to the width: = 430, and for height = 530. What we are doing here is making the canvas bigger than the current image, hence, enough room for the border.

Now click OK. You should have a white border.

Now use your rectangle selection tool and make a selection of your image, about 10 - 20 pixels smaller than the actual image.

Now go to Select->Inverse to inverse your selection. Now what you got selected is the outer border of the image.
Now go to Select->Feather and enter 4. This will soften the edges.

Now it's time to add some cool edging effects.

Go to Filter->Sketch->Torn Edges.

Now what you enter here is totally up to you. I set mine at: Image balance: 50, Smoothness: 5, Contrast: 20.

You can play around with OTHER filters to get different edging effects, here are a few:

Filter->Distort->Ocean Ripple

Filter->Sketch ->Chalk &Charcoal

Just experiment with the filters, maybe combine a few different filters to get some awesome borders.


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