Add a Border to an Image

Each preset is a starting point you can adjust:

The frame is built from the outside in: the border line, then the padding (the mat), then your image.

• Border Width: 0 to 200 px. Set 0 for no line.
• Padding / Mat: 0 to 500 px of solid colour between the line and the image.
• Colours: any colour for the line and the padding, or a swatch: black, white, gold, silver, wood or navy.
• Corner Radius: 0 to 500 px, for rounded corners.
• Drop Shadow: a soft shadow falling slightly downwards, with a blur of 5 to 200 px.

Every setting is in pixels, and the image grows by the border and padding on every side. A 1,600 × 1,200 photo comes out 1,620 × 1,220 with the Default preset and 1,664 × 1,264 with White Mat. The same 10 px line is bold on a small image but thin on a 4,000 px phone photo, where a mat needs 100 to 300 px to stand out.

The live preview is drawn to scale, so each thumbnail shows the frame as it will look on that image: the presets’ lines are hairlines on a phone photo and bold on a small graphic. After Apply Frame, the thumbnails show the real result: click one to enlarge it.

For social media, resize the photo first, for example to 1,080 px wide, the width commonly recommended for Instagram. Then a 50 px mat is about 5% of the width, clearly visible. The border is equal on all sides, so a landscape photo stays landscape.

For prints, think in print pixels. At 300 pixels per inch, a common print resolution, 1 cm is about 118 px, so the largest mat here (500 px) is about 4 cm. That suits a white edge or a slim mount; a wide gallery mount is better added by the print shop.

With square corners and no shadow, a framed image keeps its format: a JPG stays a JPG, saved at a high 92% quality and named like photo_framed.jpg, a PNG stays PNG and a WebP stays WebP. Browsers can’t save GIF, AVIF or BMP images, so those come out as JPG.

Rounded corners and drop shadows need transparency: outside the corners and around the shadow, the image is see-through, so it sits cleanly on any web page background. JPG can’t store that, so those are saved as PNG (a WebP keeps its own transparency). A photo as PNG is much bigger: 2 MB for a 1,600 × 1,200 test photo that’s 210 KB as a framed JPG. If you need a JPG anyway, run it through the image converter: transparent areas become white, so a shadow shows as grey on white.

Transparent parts of your own image are filled with the padding colour.

Phone photos stored sideways with a rotation tag come out upright, and iPhone HEIC photos work too. The framed copies have no EXIF metadata, so camera details and GPS location aren’t included.

Add as many images as you like, or use Add more images to top up the list; the same frame goes on every one. Two or more download together as framed_images.zip, and if two files share a name, the second gets “-1” on the end, so none are lost. Settings aren’t saved between visits.

Your browser draws the frame, on your own phone or computer, so your images and the framed copies are never uploaded or sent anywhere.

To check, open your browser’s developer tools and watch the Network tab while you apply a frame. You’ll see only this site’s own code and anonymous counts (a page view, and that files were added and downloaded), described in our privacy policy. After your first visit, the tool works offline too.