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When you’re happy with the positioning, hit the Delete key on your keyboard or go to Edit > Clear to delete a window from the white layer. After releasing the mouse button, you can click inside the selection and click and drag to re-position it if necessary. You want the side and top borders around the selection to appear equal, as near as possible, with a broader margin at the bottom. Now place your cursor over the image somewhere towards the top left, hold down the Shift key and then click and drag to draw a square marquee. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Tools palette – if you can’t see it, click and hold on the second icon in the Tools palette to open the fly out menu and you can select it from there. In the final step to make our Polaroid frame, we need to knock out a window through which the image on the background layer can be viewed. Make a Square Selection to Make an Image Window We need to fill this layer with a solid white as the first step of making the frame border, To do this, go to Edit > Fill and in the Fill dialog that opens, set the Use drop down menu to White and then click the OK button.Īt this point the image looks as if it may have been rather heavily over-exposed, but we’re not finished with making our frame just yet. To add a layer, go to Layer > New > Layer and, if the Layers palette is open, you’ll see a new layer has been added above the Background. Now we can add a new layer that we will use to produce our Polaroid style border frame. Finally, hit the Return key to crop the image. In my case, I adjusted both the top and bottom drag handles. You will either need to drag one of the central grab handles on the side of the crop box inwards or drag one of the central drag handles at the top or bottom outwards to make the crop selection slightly rectangular. However, while the image area of a Polaroid shot is square, the print itself has a wider border at the bottom, so we need to adjust the shape of the crop box. Note that holding down the Shift key ensures that you draw a perfect square. Now hold the Shift key on your keyboard and then click on the photo and, while holding the mouse button down, drag across your image to define the area that you want to crop. With your photo now open in Photoshop, click on the Crop Tool in the Tools palette to activate it. When you’ve decided on the photo that you’re going to use, go to File > Open and then navigate to the image file and click the OK button. Select Your Start Photoįirst up you’ll need to select a photo to work with and if you’re also going to produce a frame that looks like a Polaroid shot, you’ll need an image that is suitable for cropping to a square shape. I’m going to add a simple white border frame that is reminiscent of an instant print from a Polaroid camera, but the techniques can be easily adapted to produce a result more akin to a traditional 4×6 print. In this nice and easy tutorial, I’ll show you how easy it is to add a simple frame to a photo and even if you’re a complete newbie with Adobe Photoshop, you’ll have no trouble following along with this simple project.

It’s also a quick way to give your images a nostalgic feel by presenting them rather like printed photos or Polaroids of yesteryear. Adding a border frame to an image is very easy in Photoshop and can help to add a little interest to your photos.