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This tutorial demonstrates how to enlarge images to create borders, utilising the Canvas Size command.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your choice of image onto Photoshop’s workspace, and resize it (top menu then Image the Image Size), my lesson Here explains how to resize images.
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From the top menu, choose Image then choose Canvas Size and you will see the following Canvas Size dialogue box.
Now, change the the border measurement to Pixels by clicking the little arrows - opposite Width and Height. Ensuring Relative is ticked, click the centre (blue) button shown above; additionally, change the border colour to your choice, I have chosen White. Note: set the Height and Width to your choice, for this lesson I am applying a white border around Ben, and the border width will be 20 Pixels, and because I have ticked Relative, the border size will be equal on all four sides. Click OK and a white border will be applied, as shown below.
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Now you have created a white border, you can fill it with absolutely any filter, colour, pattern or gradient you wish, to do so, from the toolbar, activate the Magic Wand Tool and set the Tolerance to 10.
Now left-click once inside the white border and it will be surrounded by a selection marquee (moving dotted lines), as shown below.
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Your border is prepared for the fill - I am going to apply a (free) Ulead Art Texture filter; however fill your (selected) border with whatever you wish. From the top menu choose, Filter then locate a filter of your choice and apply a drop shadow from Eyecandy Textures, Nature or Impact if you wish - then from the top menu, choose Select then choose Deselect and your frame is complete.
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To create a Kodak-type border, apple the white border as we did previously, then (again) from the top menu, choose Image then choose Canvas Size - this time, change the Pixels to the following and click to activate the top centre button - click OK and your outer canvas is changed to a Kodak-type frame.
To apply a fill of your choice to the white template, surround it with a selection marquee (tutorial). Then fill it with a filter of your choice. Learn how to save the white template - as a .psd file here!
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