Photoshop - How to Create Different Brick Borders Around Your Photos

For Beginners and the Advance

Photoshop allows you to create many different borders for your photos. In this tutorial I will show you how to create three different types of brick borders. The first part of this tutorial is written for beginners. I know how frustrated I was when I was trying to learn Photoshop and couldn’t understand what the tutorials were saying. So I have broken this tutorial down and explained it step by step for beginners. If you are not a beginner then please skip down to the Advanced Part of this tutorial. You can use any photo that you wish to add the brick borders to.

How to Create Different Brick Borders Around Your Photos in Photoshop for Beginners

Brick Border 1 – See Image One for the Ending Result

Open your Photoshop program. Create a new file by clicking File > New at the top of your Photoshop window. Click File > Open to open the photo that you want to use. Once you have located your file on your hard drive, click on the file and then click Open. Now you should see your photo in your Photoshop window.

Look for your Layers Panel. If you do not see your Layers Panel, click on Window > Layers at the top of your Photoshop window. That will bring your Layers Panel up. In your Layers Panel you will see three tabs. Click on the Channel Tab. At the bottom you will see a little icon that looks like a sheet of paper with the corner curled. Click on that to create a New Channel. The New Channel will be name Alpha 1. When you create your New Channel your photo will turn black so don’t panic.

Select your Rectangular Marquee Tool in your Toolbar. It is the first icon in your toolbar. If you see a circle then click the circle and hold it down until the box drop down. Then click on the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Now draw a rectangle around your photo. Make sure that you leave enough room between your rectangle and the edge for your border to show.

Now click on Select > Inverse at the top of your Photoshop window or press Shift + CTRL + I. Now you will see two rectangles around your photo.

Select the color that you want the border to be by changing the Foreground color. The Foreground color is the color on top in your Toolbar.