Border or No Border?

[M@lew]

For photo's, do you take the time to put your photo into an extra application (e.g. Photoshop) and give it a nice little border? Or do you just upload it as is? (Including any adjustments made)

 

[Scarlet Fever]

i don't, but i'm thinking i will. It frames the image nicely, and gives more room for signatures, etc.

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

No border. It looks cheesy with that around images. If I want to see a border on my photos, I'll print them out and put a matte around them.

 

[mkrishnan]

I like the way it looks, so I take the time to matte them.

 

[Westside guy]

I don't add borders to photos that are part of a group; but I do add them to individual photos being used as part of a web page (much, not all, of the time). However I generally use simple borders that are put in place with CSS rather than modifying the image.

 

[EastCoastFlyer]

I often use borders, drop shadows, and cut-outs to provide contrast to a whole image or offset portions of an image for emphasis or effect. Many examples on my flickr site (link in signature, below)...

 

[-hh]

It really depends on what you're doing and what impression you're trying to achieve. Generally, for webpages, I rarely use borders, but for prints to hang on a wall, I invariably frame them with matts.

For example, all photos had borders back in the 1960's and earlier. As such, if you're trying to reproduce a "period" look (particularly with B&W), then you'll want that on a webpage or whatever:

Similarly, sometimes a shot can benefit from sort of added border by creating a contrast:

When you're only spending electrons, it pays to experiment.


-hh

 

[jayb2000]

I voted no.
Partly because I don't have PS and partly because for posting in the POTD thread, it seems like overkill.

I think if I was doing a print or a "showcase" webpage, I would do it.

 

[nutmac]

I hate borders. To me, borders cheapens the photo... reminds me of photos that IKEA/Walmart sells.