Connie December 9th, 2007

ACDSee Pro 2 & ACDSee 10 can be used to add a white or black border to a photo. If you’d like to get creative & nest the borders, that is possible too. This tutorial shows how to change the color of the border also.

Special thanks to JD for explaining how to do this! I just added the steps here.

This would be much easier in ACDSee Photo Editor. (If you’d like to a tutorial for that, let me know).

1. Click on the thumbnail of the photo that you’d like to put a frame around.

2. Under the Palette icon, Choose Edit Mode

3. Click on Selections on left & the window below opens.

4. Click on Marquee. Make the inside selection. Try to keep it even all around.

5. If you need to do it again, click on Clear & redo it. When satisfied, click on Invert.

6. Click on Done (on bottom left).

7. Click on Exposure.

8a. To make a black border, click on the top right & drag it down the right side to bottom.

8b. To make a white or colored border:

Click on the top right of the line & drag it to the left along the top as shown.

9. Click on Done.

10. On left side, choose Color

11. Under the RGB tab, move the sliders to adjust the color of the border.

12. Click on Done.

Now repeat from Step 3 on to create a black border.

(You can add as many borders as you’d like, just work towards outside.)

When you get to Step 8 use 8a.

Click Done. Click on Finished.

Close window on top right & Save as new file to protect original.

If you use this tutorial, please link to your creative work! I’d love to see it.

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