# Add Border

## Overview

Example for the Add Border filter

Original image

Border added

This filter just does what its name says: it adds a border to the image. You can specify the thickness of the border as well as the color. The four sides of the border are colored in different shades, so the image area will appear raised.

The image will be enlarged by the border size, it won't be painted over.

## Activating the Filter

This filter is found in the main menu under Filters Decor Add Border… .

## Options

Add Border options

Border X size
Border Y size

  Here you can select the thickness of the added border, in pixels. X size (left and right) and Y size (top and bottom) may be different. Maximum is 250 pixels.

Border color

  Clicking on this button brings up the color selector dialog that allows you to choose an average border color (see below, Delta value on color).

Delta value on color

  This option makes the border sides to be colored in different shades and thus makes the image to appear raised. The actual color of the respective border side is computed for every color component red, green, and blue

  See image types or .

  from the average Border color as follows (resulting values less than 0 are set to 0, values greater than 255 are set to 255):

  - Top shade = Border color + Delta

  - Right shade = Border color - ½ Delta

  - Bottom shade = Border color - Delta

  - Left shade = Border color + ½ Delta

  Delta examples

  Add Border filter applied with Delta value 25, then with 75, 125, 175, and 225.

  Example: the default color is blue (38,31,207), default delta is 25. So the shades of the borders are: top: (38,31,207) + (25,25,25) = (63,56,232), right: (38,31,207) + (-13,-13,-13) = (25,18,194), etc.

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Add Border