Borders

Adding borders to photographs is a simple yet effective technique completed within photoshop with digital images. Here are the images which I edited within photoshop to have a boarder around them. 

This is the first image i added a boarder to. for this image as I had not had much experience with creating borders before, I was mainly just experimenting with the technique and getting used to how this technique. This means that when creating this border, i chose to keep it simple and stick to  a plain black border around a photograph taken within City Park of the clock tower and one of the sculptures within city park. This photograph shows juxtaposition between old and new and this is the main reason i chose to use as part of this project. This boarder was left quite simple however i experimented more with boarders as i created some more images with borders.

This is another photograph i edited to have a boader surrounding it. This time, i used the same photograph as before and this time chose to change the width of the border slightly and made it a little bigger meaning i was then able to experiment with the colour of the border. to create this border, as the border is made up using the background layer within photoshop, i experimented with changing the colours and for this one i decided to get creative and use a wide range of different colours to create this rainbow effect border. This boarder is not relevant to this image however, this was not a main concern when creating this border as I was mainly focused on experimenting with this technique and showing the creativity which was possible when creating borders.

Again, i have used the same photograph as before in order to add a border to it. I stuck to using the using the same photograph as it meant there was a little bit of consistency within my work while i was simple experimenting the use of this technique. to create this border i simple hid the image which would later end up being the photograph which is surrounded bu the boarder and then fulled in the entire lower later with black and with the drawing tool on photoshop, i chose a colour i liked and started to draw random scribbly lines all over this entirely black layer. this created a very abstract pattern in which i concentrated most of the overlapping lines towards the edges of the image as this meant that when the top later of the image was shown again, the border would be black with abstract lines running through it. Again, this border does not relate to this image too well but when creating this image i was more focused on the creative experimental aspect of this technique.

this is another image i have added a border to using the photoshop technique. This image is my favourite out of all of the border images i have created and this is because i feel that the border for this image relates the most to the image which i chose to use. when creating this image, I chose to use a photograph i previously edited in a colour pop fashion meaning that the only colour within this photograph was pink with the rest of the image is made up of various shades of grey. This meant that deciding on the colour of the border for this image was relatively easy for me. When creating this border, i made sure the faded into the image itself and when choosing the colour fot the border, I chose a pink colour which was the closest shade to one used within the photograph and filled the border with this colour. I then went to the brush tool and changed the brush to a spray type effect and enlarged the size of the brush. i then chose a grey colour and added some grey specks onto the pink background. doing this meant that when the photograph was added back onto the background to create the border, the border would be the same colours, pink and grey, as the image itself. i feel that this works well and i feel that it works best out of all the bordered images i created when experimenting with this technique as the colour scheme matches the best and i feel that this border ties the image together nicely. overall i am very happy with the way this image has turned out.