To border or not to border?

I keep wondering if I should be adding borders or not, so people I have shown like them, and some don't.. Is it just a thing to add for the internet? People take them off when they print right?

Am I just wasting my time by adding them?

It is a image by image thing for me. Tiny borders do help an image stand out on the internet. They can be only 1 or 2 px. But it works. But it really is up to you. Its your image....How do you want it to be seen?

But nobody adds them in when printing right?

Not when printing, no. It's a good way to give the finished effect on the Web though.

I print borders sometime. Certainly with event and performance work. Try it. If you like the results great. If not, you tried.

Sere81 wrote in post #6343516
But nobody adds them in when printing right?

Wrong. To give one example, on some images, a thin border inside the frame looks nice on a print.

Sere81 wrote in post #6343516
But nobody adds them in when printing right?

I think it is still an image by image choice. At times it will finish the image. Others it may spoil it. I know this does not really help. You just have to try it a few times and you will get it.

Yes

I asked this question a couple of weeks ago, as I bought Mikes Framer for CS3 so I could add borders easily (and have a large choice)

And I have since found it is very much an image by image choice, but again that is down to personal preference, but family etc like them more with a small frame/border round the one ones they have seen as it finishes the images off nicely (for the web)

I wouldnt print any with frames/borders though, as any I have printed I have put into real frames

borders definitely. it ties the whole picture together.

I tape my A4 prints each to an A3 black (album page quality) cardboard to be displayed on a tabletop stand I made, no glass.

I always print with a 3-4mm white border (to avoid overspray) which I trim off if the picture border tones are light enough to separate well from the cardboard black.

Peano wrote in post #6343812
Wrong. To give one example, on some images, a thin border inside the frame looks nice on a print.

That border is really bright, most monitors won't be able to see it if they haven't calibrated their monitors. My monitors calibrated so I can see it .

Swift1 wrote in post #6347799
That border is really bright, ...

It's white.

Peano wrote in post #6347813
It's white.

Yeah, I can see that.