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Simple Border For Your Photos

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Now select the rectangular marquee tool and draw a box around the same size as mine.

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Now you need to make the border. Go to Select>Modify>Border and set the Border to 7px or any size you prefer. Now fill that area with white. Press CRT +D to remove the marching ants.

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You are now left with a full square with a border. Get your eraser tool out and rub out the entire border on the right and the bottom.

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On the ends of the remaining lines set the opacity of the eraser tool to 56 and just blend out the ends.

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After you have don't that duplicate the layer by going to layer>duplicate layer. This will make it a bit brighter and more effective.

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Nearly there! Make sure you select the top layer and then press crt+E to merge the border layers into one. Now duplicate the layer again and press crt+T to select free transform turn the border round till it is inline with the other border.

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Now select the move tool and move the image to the bottom of the picture.

This would look allot better on a nice blue background i.e. an underwater photo.

And you are done!

Simple Border For Your Photos

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