Photoshop - Creating Fancy Borders Around Your Photos

In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you how to create three Fancy Borders around your photos. I will write the first part of this tutorial for beginners and the second part for the advance users. I do not have a name for these borders so you will have to look at the images to see how they will look. I was just playing around with these borders and come up with the three fancy ones. So I thought I would share them with you.

How to Create Fancy Borders in Photoshop for Beginners

Fancy Border 1 – Please see image one for the end results

Step 1
Open your Photoshop program to begin. Click File > Open at the top of your Photoshop window to open the image that you want to work with.

Step 2
In your Layers Panel you will see three tabs. If you don’t see your Layers Panel, click F7. Click on the Channel Tab in your Layers Panel. At the bottom of the panel you will see a little icon that looks like a sheet of paper with the corner curled up. Click on that to create a new channel. The new channel will be named Alpha 1.

Step 3
Click on the Rectangular Marquee Tool in your toolbar. It is the first icon in the toolbar. If you see a circle instead of a rectangle, then click the circle and hold it down until the box drops down so that you can click the rectangle. Draw a rectangle on your photo. Leave a little room between the edge and your photo so that you can see your border.

Step 4
Go to the top of your Photoshop window and click Select > Inverse.

Step 5
Change your foreground color to the color that you want your border to be. To change the foreground color, click on the top color square in your toolbar.

Step 6
Go back to the top of your window and click Edit > Fill. Now you will see the color that you selected for your border around the edge of your photo.

Step 7
Press CTRL + D on your keyboard to deselect your photo.

Step 8
At the top of your window click Filter > Artistic > Fresco. When the Fresco dialog box pops up, enter the following into the fields.

Brush Size – 3
Brush Deatil – 0
Texture – 3

Then click OK.

Step 9
In your Layers Panel click on the RGB Channel. It should be the first channel. This will show your original photo in the Photoshop window.