Border in Lightroom v2

[OldClicker]

I would like to put a simple border like in the pic below and not have to go to Photoshop just to do this. Anyone have a good way in LR? - TF

[SmartWombat]

There's a way you can save it as an action from photoshop and then have lightroom apply it.
But I don't know PS well enough to create a droplet to try it.

http://www.lightroomqueen.com/lrqdroplets.php may help.

[OldClicker]

There's a way you can save it as an action from photoshop and then have lightroom apply it.
But I don't know PS well enough to create a droplet to try it.

http://www.lightroomqueen.com/lrqdroplets.php may help.

This looks like I will be opening up two new whole cans of worms. Thanks, I think. TF

[drg]

There are a couple of solutions to this that don't require Photoshop every time or at all.

By using the Slide, Print, or Web modules, various treatments can be added to photograph(s) and saved (or printed to JPEG). Even drop shadows. Now there's a catch.

Some of those images will need to be re-imported in to Lightroom to crop off extra border or background. Still if you are running on a slower machine or don't have PS available it will work. I'll get details if you want on these. The second image below is a 'combined' image with two treatments performed. This is all Lightroom functionality!

The vignette tools provide by sliding the controls to an extreme a border that looks not unlike a film frame border. These can also provide a variety of mask like effects and washout effects. Then you can watermark over them in one step. Easier but not a simple line/pixel oriented border.

The vignette samples are from earlier posts and reviews:





The second one is a combined image (two step process)

Then, in another post from 2008 user NoKnees also posted how to use frames with an overlay technique (there are a couple variation on this too!) in the post linked below:

Lightroom 2 - Advanced Watermarking

Be sure to scroll down to the entry from NoKnees for their method.

NoKnees solution requires an image to be created elsewhere and then overlayed. That's a good solution to have a standard border ready to go and then it can be applied to any number of images! This technique can be easily used to provide a line/pixel type of border. One warning is that the exported images will need to be the same size to fit the 'frame' or it may stretch or distort depending upon options. Benefit of not having to 'shell out' to Photoshop.

The upcoming Lightroom 3 appears to be poised to be more integrated with Photoshop in not yet released ways, but that may require the newest and costlier version of Photoshop.

If you have a question let me know as I've played with all of these techniques from a little to a lot!