Hello fellow photographers!

Some of us like to add frames, borders title to the picture...I am one of them! Any rule or law comcerning what do and what not to do?  
I am framing my shots by my liking what I think is look good or macthing with a picture but I have a hunch I am not realy doing good with it on a field. I am realy intersted in colors, what goes with what...like black border with white text regardless a theme of the picture. ( like red flower or green bushes...) I like to here your opinion advise critique on a matter.....or just simply what makes you pick a frame what you using to present your work here or somewhere else. Sample shots welcome if a " Modies " agree...thank You! (I am not sure how much we allowed to load up... pictures per tread)

Would be great help and muchly appriciated!!

seeya  Tunde

Feel free to upload as many images to this thread as you wish..

Your not the first person to ask this question either !!

I'm at work now, and can't show you screen shots of some of the methods I use to create mine..
Not that I'm that great at it..

I generally go with black or white - any other colour makes it extremely difficult to get right, although sometimes a thin line of colour between the main "border" and the picture can work. say if you have a picture of an orange amoung other non-orange coloured fruit - put a thin orange line between the pic and your main border and the eye is drawn to the orange ;)

White is good for "happy" shots and black for more "technical" shots... generally whatever takes your fancy at the time i dont think there is an exact rule to follow.

As for how i do them, well i make sure i dont have a "background" layer, then i increase the canvase size by 12% on the long side and 18% on the short side (if the pic is a 3:2 ratio) and then increase the height by 4% if portrait and 5% if landscape from the top (gives room to put the title etc).  Then just put a layer under the pic and play around with ctrl+backspace or alt+backspace (shortcut in PS to fill the selected layer with either foreground of background colour - make sure you have it set to black and white (shortcut: D) to see which option you think fits well.

Sometimes another thin line needs to be put in (especially when there is a large area of black or white on the borders so that the border "blends" with the photo... then it is just a simple layer style -> Stroke and play around in there to get the thickness/colour/effect you want.

Attached Link: Egmont

Good tips Rich. As a general rule of them, the border should compliment the photo but not overpower it. It serves to isolate the photo from distracting elements around it. Egmont is one of our members who makes a very professional looking border presentation, take a look at his gallery.

Hello Tonde...

I agree with all of the three replies! Simple always gives you a pro results.. And the black or white frames are always been winners! Unless the contents of your photo/shot won't support them.. In this case use either a light shade or darker of your main background colours! Got what i mean? Thank you and have a nice day my friend... Hugs to you to, sigh

JOE

Thank You guys.....very helpfull what is put in. 
@Rick....great method I do it very similar to yours, good to know roughly I am on a right track.
@Kort, Thanks for a link to Egmont galery I will try a few picture using his border type, also Geert doing a nice clean frames/borders too. Those shot so nice to look at.
@Joe....Makes a lot of sense your oppinion, well normaly if I am stuck on framing go check up on your work...LOL

Thanks again....seeyus  Tunde

Are you using Photoshop?

http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm#Frames

Love that link! Lots of wonderful lil goodies there.

Thanks TerraDreamer.  :^)

TerraDreamer...thanks for a link...candy shop for Adobe users.

seeya  Tunde

I almost never use fancy or complex frames, even though I see many here on galleries.  Yes, the finely done frame is a compliment to the image and I appreciate the good ones.  I also go for simple...for me.  I generally use a thin line, perhaps 2 or 3, with one of the colors from a definite color in the image.  The outside line is generally black.

Without knowing the bg color on the viewers monitors, a frame of some sort is needed, even if a one liner.       Tom.