clipped from www.ephotozine.com How to create a black border in Gimp Creating a black border in Gimp - Michael Bates shows us how to use Gimp to create a black border. It's impossible to look through the photo gallery here on ePHOTOzine without coming across a photograph that has a nice thick black border around it. Obviously a lot of you know how to do this, but for those who are new to the software and want to learn how, here's the basic procedure for you to use and adapt to suit your purposes. This method allows you to create a thick black border with a simple white pinstripe around the edge of the image to keep things interesting, and can be adapted to images any shape as long as you can create a selection that shape.