I just started putting borders on my fractals a short while ago, but now I'm a firm believer in it. My reason is that I do my borders in colors from the fractal, so I think the frame complements the fractal. But tjames makes a very good point; without a border, it can be hard to see where the fractal ends and the background begins. With my gallery at zanografix, the problem is twofold. Two of the images are old, from before I started adding borders, and when I uploaded to the gallery I couldn't find the bitmaps for those two from which to add the borders. So if I want to add borders I'll have to re-render, which I may very well do. The other problem is that one of them, the emerald one for anyone who has looked, already has a frame, but it's essentially the same color as the fractal, so it hardly counts. I consider that fram an experiment that didn't really work. So even if I re-render the others, that one will keep its apparent lack of a frame. I guess all I'm saying is that I agree, it's a hard problem. Some people never frame their images, so what should the gallery owner do then? I know the gallery software that tjames is using is very user-friendly, but I don't know if it allows different galleries to have different background colors.