Edit · Frames & matting
Add Border
Solid or gradient borders, breathing-room padding, and aspect-ratio matting for the gallery white-frame look.
Borders that make photos feel finished
A border is the cheapest upgrade in photography. The same photo that looks like a loose screenshot in a feed looks deliberate — curated, even — inside a clean frame. This tool layers three classic treatments that you can combine freely: a border (solid colour or two-colour gradient ring), a mat (the padding between photo and border, like the cardboard mat in a picture frame), and aspect matting, which extends the mat to hit an exact ratio.
That last one solves a real problem: Instagram crops anything that isn't 1:1 or 4:5. Instead of letting the platform guillotine your composition, mat the photo to the target ratio — the full image floats inside a white (or any colour) frame at exactly the shape the feed wants. Photographers have used this trick since the first square-crop era, and it never stopped looking good.
Combinations worth trying
- Gallery: white mat at 6–10% padding, thin black border. Timeless.
- Feed-ready: 4:5 aspect mat in white, no border — maximum size in the feed, zero cropping.
- Album cover: 1:1 mat in a colour sampled from the photo (grab it with the color picker), plus a gradient border.
- Polaroid-ish: generous white padding, slightly heavier at the bottom — okay, we only do even padding, but pair it with a caption and squint.
Everything renders live at preview size and exports at full resolution, with the photo's own pixels passed through untouched. Like every tool here, the work happens on your device — no upload, no account, no watermark.
Common questions
Are border sizes in pixels or percent?
Percent of the image's smaller side, so the frame looks proportionally identical on a phone photo and a 50MP scan.
Can I round the corners too?
That lives in the round image tool — run it after framing for rounded frames.