Ceating a thin white border wihin the canvas

[nathan_rigg]

<p>can anyone tell me how I put a thinner white border within an already blalck canvas?</p>

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[leicaglow]

<p>Nathan, if you are using PhotoShop, what I do is put a border around the image by selecting the background color I want, then changing the Canvas size. So if your image is 400x600, you could make the background color pallete white, then go to Canvas Size and change the image size to 402x602, for example, and you'd have a 1 pixel border around your image.</p>

[mike_stemberg]

First select the image only (minus the black border) with the Rectangular Marquee Tool and with it selected go to Edit > Stroke. Choose your colour, width, location, blend option. Clicking OK on your options will do what you want.

[KenPapai]

<p>Like Mike said, Edit/Stroke is the way to go. Like this maybe: ?</p><div></div>

[nathan_rigg]

<p>Thanks for the tips.<br>

I have managed to get a black border and white inner border, but now i want to ensure the borders are the same size accross all shots.<br>

I tried setting a standard size i.e. 300 cm, but the thickness of this varies as each shot is a different size.<br>

I thought maybe using a percentage but this keeps cropping the image?<br>

any ideas?</p>

[KenPapai]

<p>300cm? 3 meters? </p>

[nathan_rigg]

<p>300 cm. I am also setting the thin white stripe at 30 pixels, but this varies as well on each image!<br>

The result is slightly varying lines, which is not what i want!</p>