Tutorial: How to add borders using Paint.Net
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- Make sure your color palette is shown (else go to window and enable)
- Set Primary color to Black and secondary to white
- Image -> Canvas Size -> choose by percentage - 95%
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- Image -> Canvas Size -> choose by percentage - 105%
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- Now you should see a white border on your image like this:
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Step 2
- Set your secondary color also to black
- Image -> Canvas Size -> choose by percentage - 99%
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- Image -> Canvas Size -> choose by percentage - 101%
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- Now you should see a black border on your image like this:
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Next tutorial tomorrow would be: How to add drop shadows to images. We will take this last image and add a drop shadow to it. Stay tuned!
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