Realism is Overrated: For a friend: How to add a border to images, using irfanview.

Adding a border to an image is a very easy process, and while it may seem daunting at first, it's really very simple. There's a great free tool available for Windows called irfanview, and it's very good and opening image files, and allowing very basic editing, like cropping (cutting an image down), or resizing an image, or saving it as a different file format.

For these instructions, you're first going to want to download irfanview, which you can do by clicking this link: http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/irfanview,1.html

Once you load that page, the file should begin to download. Once saved to your computer, run the installer, and then run the irfanview program.

The following steps will help walk you through adding a 1 pixel, grey border around your images.

open the image.

select Image > Change Canvas Size..

Set the four "Method 1" side numbers to -1. -1 left, -1 right, -1 top, -1 bottom.

make sure that "if negative values are used: add canvas to inside" IS CHECKED.

Click the "Choose" button

enter "205 205 205" in the Red, Green, and Blue slots on the bottom right of the color picker (ignore the other slots, they'll change as you add your numbers in.

Click "add to custom colors" and Irfanview will remember this color in one of the 16 squares on the lower left.. next time you do this, you can just click the saved color.