I’m going to share some tips and techniques for taking and posting beautiful photos for your blog or website. If there is one thing that being a business owner (and more importantly, a consumer!) has taught me, it’s that appearance is everything.

Now, we’re told over and over to look past the surface; not to judge a book by its cover; beauty is only skin deep… but you know as well as I do that sites like Pinterest are popular because it’s a catalog of visually stunning things.

That being said! With the technology that’s available today (and oftentimes for free!), there’s no reason *not* to have an amazing looking blog or website. I’m going to show you how!

Blog Photo School: Borders 101

One way to give your website a more streamlined, professional look is to maintain a certain theme when you style your photos. A great way to do that is with borders around your photos! Here’s an easy way to add a scalloped border (or anything, really) with Photoshop.

(Note: If you don’t have Photoshop, there’s an amazing free program called The Gimp which is very similar. I used it for a long time before I even touched Photoshop. It has most of the same capabilities and a lot of functions are performed the same way. Give it a try!)

Click on any photo to enlarge:

I hope that made sense! Feel free to share this, but please link back here and give me credit!

What do you think? Yay or nay for the tutorial style? Comments and constructive criticism are more than welcome!

Tags: border, editing, photo, photoshop, scalloped, tutorial

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