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.
If you're going to do any width, why not any color?
If you're going to do any color, why not any texture?
If you're going to do any texture, why not any gradient?
If you're going to do any gradient, why not bevels and other treatments?
I'm just trying to get ahead on the feature request timeline here. 😉
I'd suggest that it's one of a number of basic features that should be a priority but whose continued absence from LR has led us to reduce our expectations....
I think they're both in the same category of "basic features that should be a priority but whose continued absence from LR has led us to reduce our expectations.... "
If you have Photoshop select the edge of your frame and stroke it. You can control if the stroke goes inside, outside or in the center of the selection. You can also control the hardness of the stroke with the feather setting.
Lets not mess around, just do the job properly and make it a "Add Picture Frame" feature. While your at it, make it available as an update for LR3 users now, instead of having to wait for a future LR4. I am suprised this wasn't put in ages ago in LR2.
It would be very useful to be able to add key-line borders to images when exporting them from Lightroom.
for example my photo-blog has a black background, so dark images often look "lost" unless I can frame them somehow.
I am using Mogrify, but honestly don't find it great (a bit clunky, and not well integrated) and this idea seems so straightforward for Adobe to build in.
I wrote a fairly extensive javascript to do this between Bridge and Photoshop a few years ago, and I think the documentation covers what I would like to see in Lightroom.
This feature exist in print mode and is interesting. It should be nice to have the same frame feature in develop mode. Or frame option in exporting module !
PLEASE, can we have the facility, in Lightroom, to put a border around an image and then export it to file. It is too complicated in the Print module - and then the border never seems to be with the exported file. I need to project digital images and I'm feed up with having to export to Photoshop to use the stoke tool.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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