Borders that make photos look finished
A simple white border gives photos a gallery look, keeps edges from blending into a white web page and makes prints easier to frame. This tool adds a border sized as a percentage of your photo, so it looks balanced on any image.
Instagram and other apps crop tall and wide photos into their own shapes. Choose Square, 4:5 or 9:16 and the border extends to that shape, so your whole photo fits without anything cut off. Fill it with a colour, a gradient, or a blurred copy of the photo itself, and add rounded corners, an inner outline or a soft shadow.
How to add a border to a photo
- 1
Open a photo
Choose, drag in or paste an image.
- 2
Set the border
Pick the size, then a colour, gradient or blurred-photo fill.
- 3
Choose the canvas shape
Keep the original shape or fit the picture into square, 4:5, 9:16 or 16:9.
- 4
Style and download
Add rounded corners, an outline or a shadow, then save at full resolution.
Key features
No-crop Instagram fit
Whole photos in square and portrait posts.
Three fills
Solid colour, two-colour gradient or blurred background.
Rounded corners and shadow
Modern card-style framing.
Original quality
Your photo is framed at its full size — never shrunk or cropped.
Common uses
- Instagram posts: Share landscape photos without losing the sides.
- Prints: Add a white margin for framing or mounting.
- Presentations and websites: Separate photos from the page background.
Tips and good to know
- Blurred-photo fills work beautifully for portrait photos on a 16:9 YouTube or presentation canvas.
- For framing several photos together, use the Collage Maker.
- Need an exact size afterwards? Use the Image Resizer.