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How do I place 2 borders around an image ? - Clueless - 04-14-2025
Hi
Please can anyone tell me how do I place a white border around an image that has a white surrounding area, and then another coloured border ?
I thought it would be as easy to insert a white border first and then another larger coloured (colored) border, however the white border has a differently shaded area along 2 sides with a mitre in one corner.
thanks in advance
RE: How do I place 2 borders around an image ? - Tas_mania - 04-15-2025
There are any many ways of doing this. Possibly the easiest is look at the size of you image in the layers with 'Scale Layer'.
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Then add your border in pixels and add to the width and height with a calculator. Say you wanted a 25px border all round your image? Make a new image of size 1330 X 1009.
Go back to original image, select the layer and press ctrl + C. This is copy.
Go to the new image and do Edit > Paste as > New Layer. This puts your image right in the middle.
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Merge you pasted layer down and its done. For another border use the same method.
RE: How do I place 2 borders around an image ? - denzjos - 04-15-2025
Use 'Filters / Decor / Add Border' and set 'Delta Value on Color' to 1. You can also change the color, to do so click on the square color next to 'Border Color'.
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RE: How do I place 2 borders around an image ? - rich2005 - 04-15-2025
Many ways, Add Border (as denzjos) twice and merge layers.
If you have large images and wide borders consider Image -> Canvas size. It does "arithmetic", remember to add 2xborder size to width/depth.
example: https://i.imgur.com/q19Sda3.mp4
RE: How do I place 2 borders around an image ? - Clueless - 04-15-2025
Many thanks for your replies. I used denzjos method - it worked perfectly !!
RE: How do I place 2 borders around an image ? - sallyanne - 04-17-2025
I also see your problem. You need a (color of outside border) canvas behind your picture that is larger than it then select your picture using alpha to select then Selection > Border (according to the size of your picture) then do a white fill. Then you can crop your picture to make your second border around the picture. Otherwise there are many scripts/filters that will do it.