How to Great Great Looking Borders

[RStone]

Any ideas on how to create great looking borders around Digital photographs? I found two examples and have attached to this email. Would like to know how to do these.

Thanks for any help.

[Halliday]

Interested in hearing any replies too :)

[queenbee288]

It is hard to say without knowing what kind of editing program you have. If you have photoshop then I suggest www.goodtutorials.com or google for photoshop tutorials borders. If you don't have PS then I am sorry, I don't know anything about tutorials for the other image editing software.

[fortinaa]

Seems that Photoshop is going to be the most popular. Both of these look like they were just done with 2 simple layers. On the first, one of the blur filters was probably used on the background layer. The actual image might have had a stroke added to it, or the canvas extended to get the white boarder. The second shot just has two images layered. The background image looks like it was desaturated a bit and had the opacity dropped below 75% or so, while the foreground image has a frame treatment and is left 100% opacity.

[valerism]

In Photoshop this effect could be achieved with layers and a radial blur using the "zoom" instead of "spin" method