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john beardsworth
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Community Expert
June 16, 2011
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P: In the Export dialog, provide the option to add a simple borders

In the Export dialog, provide the option to add a border. Nothing fancy - any colour so long as it's black - and give control over its width in pixels. And of course, make sure too that it is added after any sharpening.

People simply shouldn't need to rely on plug-ins for this, not after 3 versions of the program.

John

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danielm49702136
Known Participant
October 20, 2026

You can use Borders plugin from LightroomToolbox:
https://lightroomtoolbox.minsky.com.ar/en/bordes/

It lets you to add simple and complex frames. There are three types of frames:

  • internal: they partially cover your photo (you define the border thickness, color, transparency)
  • external: arround your photo (you define the color, transparency and thickness in any direction)
  • frame: they are around your photo. it is used to complete a defined aspect ratio for instance if you like to export photos with different aspect ratio and want to get all exported files with a 4:5 aspect ratio or whatever you want. (you define the aspect ratio, color, minimum thickness and whether the photo will be centered)

 

  • All those types can be combined and used together
  • external and frame borders can use you photo for its definition. The photo is expanded to cover the border, and you chooso a blur, desaturatioin and transparency that will be used. This creates a border that combines with your photo
  • All those types have inner and outer contourns you can define
  • You can also add shadows in order to create volume (for instance a countour representing the wooden part of the frame project shadow so you get volume)
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Bob321
Known Participant
August 31, 2022

"Export" please allow us to add borders. (Feature request!)

 

Meanwhile, may be this plugin can help (I have never tried it.)
Export plugin "LR/Mogrify 2": https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php

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Bob321
Known Participant
August 31, 2022

Even better: Add this feature "Add Border" to the Develop Module!

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Known Participant
October 4, 2020

You might be interested in the LR/Mogrify plugin which "... allows you to add outer and inner borders, watermarks and text annotations to your images." The plugin is available as donationware here. Read the Quickquide for a description of its features.

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Inspiring
October 4, 2020

In the Print module you can add a stroke border to the image and then print (export) to a JPG file.  In the Export dialog you can modify the image sizing.  It would be wonderful if you could add stroke border to the Export options and add resizing to the Print module.

 

Currently you have to print to JPG with a stroke border then Import back into lightroom.  Then Export and select the resizing options. It seems like you should be able to do both in either module.

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Participant
February 19, 2020
Thanks for the tip. This works really well, except when I have applied a crop to the image. If I have, then this will produce lop sided results and still requires Photoshop to perform a Canvas resize under Image. 
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Bob Somrak
Legend
February 16, 2020
Just go into the Transform panel and lower the scale value from 100.  A white border will appear.  Unfortunately, white is the only color choice you have but in your case it will work perfectly.
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M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
Participant
February 15, 2020
Add option to create a key line around an image in Lightroom. I do find that sometimes the only reason for taking an image into PS from LR is so I can add a white border around it. It would be very useful if this could be possible in Lightroom.
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Inspiring
December 7, 2018
Yes i know that but my point is why cant we have a simple process in the develop module like Picasa used to have. From a software coding viewpoint this would be incredibly easy to acomplish
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Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 7, 2018
Set up a Print preset, then it becomes very easy to "Print to File" multiple images from the Lr Print module with a simple Stroke border.

Set Paper Setup for Borderless, (image to 'fill' cell)
Set Stroke width & color
Use 'All Filmstrip Photos' or 'Selected Photos'
Set 'Print To:"  as JPEG File
[Print to File...]
Save the Preset Template.
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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
Inspiring
December 6, 2018


Why can't we just get this feature added its not rocket science even Picasa used to provide it
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