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Creating a Border

Before you go to print a photo, you should have a small border around the image

incase the colours bleed, or you need to mount the photograph. In this instance, I

created a 10mm border around the image.

You firstly need to go to Image > Image Size. This will bring up a dialogue box

showing the dimensions of the image and its resolution. For print the resolution

should be 300dpi. To alter this setting the resample box should be ticked.

Once you have set up the dpi, you need to un-tick the resample box and change the

smaller edge of the photo to the desired size. For an A4 print this would be 19cm

because you need to take off 2cm (1cm either side) to allow for the border.

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Now that you have setup the shorter edge of the photo, you now need to change the

side of the longer edge. To do this, you should go to Image > Canvas Size. Here you

need to change the longer edge of the photo to 27.7, which will allow for the border.

Once you have selected the size, another box will appear asking if you want to

proceed with cropping. Accept this request.

You now need to go back into Canvas Size and change the sizes to 21 x 29.7 (A4 size)

and accept.

This method will leave you with a perfect 10mm border all around the image.

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The other method you can use to create a border doesnt require any mathematics,

but can take longer to do. You firstly need to create a blank A4 document. From here

you can rotate it landscape by going to Image > Image Rotation > Rotate 90*

Clockwise.

You then need to make a new layer for your frame to go on.

Once you have done this, you need to get the rulers and click and drag a marker

from both the top and bottom ruler to form a 1cm line from the edge of the

document. If yours are not there, hit cmd-R (ctrl-R for windows).

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When you have drawn two lines, drag the marker located at the start of the X and Y-axis on the rulers to the bottom right hand corner of the page. This will put rulers on

the opposite side of the page, so you can draw the other two markers. When you

have done this, draw two more lines on the remaining edges.

When you have all four lines, you need the Square Marquee tool, located in the tool

bar on the left hand side. Draw a box in-between the lines marked. Once you have

done this hit SHIFT-cmd-I (SHIFT-ctrl-I for windows) to invert the marquee.

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Now you have the border selected hit alt-delete to fill the border in white.

Then import an image into Photoshop, and position to size making sure the image is

in-between the frame and background layer.