How To Add a Border in Photoshop

Be it an image, shape, or text

In graphic design, a simple way to make something stand out is to add a border around it. In this article, we’ll show you how to add a border in Photoshop to images, shapes, and text.

The best way to amp up your Photoshop skills is topractice,practice,practice. Try adding a border in Photoshop by following the steps below.

How To Add a Border Around an Image in Photoshop

Imagine you have a photo or image that you want to add a border around in Photoshop. You’re planning on printing the image and getting it framed. Adding a border to the image will make it look like you’ve added an interior matte.

Let’s also imagine that you don’t want the border to cover up even one pixel of the image itself, so first you’ll need to increase the size of thecanvas—the workspace around an image within an image window—and then add the border in that extra space. Fortunately, this is simple to do in Photoshop.

To add a border, select theCreate a New Fill or Adjustment Layerbutton in the Layers panel and chooseSolid Colorfrom the list.
In the Color Picker window, choose the color you want the border to be and select theOKbutton.
Finally, in the Layers panel, drag the color fill layer you just created below the image layer.

Now your image should have a border around it. You can save it, but remember toSave as…so you don’t save over your original image.

Play around with the color of the border by double-clicking on the Color Fill layer and choosing a different color, and try changing the thickness of the border by readjusting the size of the canvas (Image>Canvas Size). Enter negative numbers to make the canvas smaller.

How To Add a Border to a Shape in Photoshop

Next, let’s learn how to add a border to a shape in Photoshop.

Be sure toSave as…so you don’t overwrite the original image.

How To Add a Border to Text in Photoshop

In Photoshop adding a border to text is called outlining. The process of outlining is similar to adding a stroke to a frame like we did in the example above.

Photoshop is packed with features and functionality. To continue learning, check out our article onhow to mask in Photoshopand then put your new knowledge to use by doing aface swap in Photoshop!

Maggie Marystone is a freelance technology writer, human rights worker, and storyteller based in Chicago.Read Maggie’s Full Bio

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