Adding White Borders To My Photos

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[visualsbypreet]

I love white borders too, I personally use Lightroom Print module for borders, since I am already editing in Lightroom I don’t need to use any external Apps. It’s all within LR and white border preset can be made too

In LR print module, page setup as needed, Add white border to taste in layout section and finally print as jpg file to desktop instead of an actual print

[joshua]

Have you seen how Lightroom supports this, even on mobile? It’s pretty cool…also allows you to choose the overall ration of the final white bordered image and whether the borders are even or asymmetrical depending on the orientation.

[SedmogJula]

Think it is way easier to select all and just create white colour stroke (inside), desired amount of pixels. That way the frame is even or equal everywhere :)

[amtee]

This is great. I like the way I do it but I wasn't aware of the actions function. Thanks!

[franklinaguilarmatos]

Nice tutorial, also you can check a free software named darktable, import an image and activate a module named "frame" then you can chose a whole group of dimensions, and the possibilities to create your own styles and saved as presets. Greetings.

[paulcrutchley]

Hi Mitch, Thank you for the video. After adding the white border, do you do any further resizing to the image for social media? Best regards Paul

[RichardMathieu-fslh]

thank you, is there a way to do the same thing but with a square white border?

[joris]

In Lightroom (on tablet or smartphone) you can easily export and add a border (and change the size of the border).

[paulm]

Helpful tutorial, a keeper👍. Pls clarify one thing. When batch processing, to get correct border results must all images be the same size and orientation? Thanks.

[GingerPhotographer]

Quick question, I followed your tut for creating an action for multiple photos but now the border is black instead of white - any ideas how to fix? Thank you.

[AustinListingPhotos]

When i follow these instructions, the border on my photo is black - not white. How do i change the border to white? Thanks

[thedanwriter]

For some reason this only work before you edit the image in photoshop, but once you start adding a bunch of other layers, you don’t get the white borders anymore, is there any way around this do you know?

[natalija]

Do you crop in lightroom or photoshop?

[JakeFouracre]

What do you do with landscape images you want to post to IG? Do you fit the landscape into a 4x5 canvas?

[supdota]

I swear we have telepathy or something mitch. the DAY I switch to Fujifilm, you post a Fujifilm video, the DAY I start adding borders, you post a video on borders. 😂

[Miroslav_Urban]

Hi Mitch, is it possible to implant your presets into camera raw??

[mathieucaron]

I've noticed it creates a distorsion of the picture proportions...

[ministerstein]

There is also an easier way for nerds with the command line 😄

[rebours]

Being expressed as a percentage of the image's width and heigth, the border is uneven which is not satisfying...

[stew_redman]

It's a subjective, personal choice. I'm not a fan of white borders myself, with the only exception being for genuine Polaroid shots. Love your pics though.