Making borders a certain percent of a photo?

[Mundu]

I just realised that adding the same size border to every photo I've taken or cropped means some borders are going to look bigger on cropped photos and was wondering if there was anyway to make a borer a certain percent of the photo in photoshop?

 

[rpstewart]

Automatically, I don't think so but I perfectly willing to be proved wrong! What you could do is set up your border action to ask you how much to extend the canvas by (assuming this is how you do it). In the actions palette if you check the box to the right of the tick mark (the check mark is a stylised dialogue box) the action will present the appropriate dialogue box for the action step and therefore you can select a size for each image.

 

[Day03]

It can be done very easily. Go to 'Image' then 'Canvas Size' then change the default measurement from centimete to percent and that is it. You can make it into an action to batch process all your pictures

 

[Lostkat]

It can be done very easily. Go to 'Image' then 'Canvas Size' then change the default measurement from centimete to percent and that is it. You can make it into an action to batch process all your pictures

I've been wondering how to do this for ages!! Thanks

 

[Amp34]

You have to remember though that the border won't be the same on all sides The longer side will have a smaller border than the shorter side.

 

[Mundu]

You have to remember though that the border won't be the same on all sides The longer side will have a smaller border than the shorter side.

Just realised that so that idea won't work. All I want is a border on all my photos that is the same size in comparision to the photo.

 

[Day03]

You can set the percentages of each side to watever you want so by doing some calculations you can get the same border all the way round. This will not work if each of your photos is cropped differently.