Some pictures look great with ornamental borders. If you want to manipulate speckled edges around your image in Photoshop, this tutorial is for you. There are many ways in creating spectacular borders for pictures, here you will learn one of them. Instructions for designing a speckled image borders in Photoshop >>
Open an image in Photoshop that you want speckled borders around. The tutorial use this 425 x 425 pixels image for example.
Create a new file; File > New. Make it the size slightly larger than your loaded image enough to make a border. Use any color you want for the background and foreground. Set the resolution to 72dpi. Click OK.
Image here is 500 x 500 pixels.
With the new file still selected, go to Filter > Artistic > Film Grain. On the Film Grain dialog window, apply these parameters to create rough outline for the speckles:
(1)Grain: 8
(2)Highlight Area: 3
(3)Intensity: 3
Click OK.
To smooth the speckles, go to Image > Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast. Apply 54 to the Brightness, and 48 to the Contrast.
Select again the Image, then go to Adjustment > Color Balance. Set Cyan to 100%, Green to 32%, Blue to 100%.
Combine the speckled background image with your open image in Step 1. To do this, left-click Step 1 image and drag while holding the key; placing it on top the speckled image.
Merge all the layers, Layer > Merge Layers to decrease file size. Save and we are done.
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