Add Borders to Images in Photoshop

This tutorial, "Photoshop for Starters: Adding Frames and Borders to Your Images in Photoshop" was submitted by Olga Bogatyrenko of www.chasingmoments.com

Olga writes:

original imageThis tutorial offers two basic strategies to add borders to your images. The two strategies represent two distinct logics of achieving the same result: (1) creating a mat above your image and cutting out an opening in it to see the underlying image, or (2) modifying the canvas that underlies your image. The choice of the option depends on the image you have.

 

ipad Effortless Photo Searching

Sort Shots - iPad Edition 2.0, is the first and only iPad app that utilizes metadata information from photographs for easy image searching. Additionally, the latest release retains original image qualities including full resolution.

 

Fun Photo Decoration

Pimpy could be just about the most fun new photo decoration app for iPhone and iPod touch. Pimpy is the latest application for photo decoration and it is the only one that gives access to your Facebook photos and to the photos of your friends.

Underplot Apps, the authors of this app, added the possibility for logging into your Facebook account, browsing all of your friends and their albums. It is possible to search by name and adding friends to your favourites. Besides the easy access to all of your friends, you can also use your iPhone camera.

 

iPhone Foto Brush

Foto Brush Pro 1.2 is an Apple featured program for the aspiring artist and those who want to make their photos extra special. The app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users allows users to take a photo canvas and apply creative touches before saving, emailing or sharing with social networking friends on Facebook, Twitter or Flickr.

The application offers a wide range of creative features, incorporating more than one hundred and eighty stock elements that can be combined or used alone to create custom, personalized pictures. Users choose an element and apply brush strokes with their finger.

Building a grid in Photoshop

J.R., a Photoshop 911 reader from Oklahoma writes :

quoting I've been reading tutorials online for a grid, but none of them really work out the way I want

      can you help me do a grid that works out evenly to the image montage I've got?  end quote

Building a grid in Photoshop

This is the kind of grid mosaic photo we will buildGenerally speaking, most of those tutorials are quick and basic, just to generate ad revenue, and never really take into account the intended purpose of the piece. When planning a photo montage to fit into a grid -- if you want the grid to come out accurately -- you've got to do a little math and planning before Photoshop.