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In this article, TipsMake will show you how to create borders for images with the Illustrator tool.

Method 1: Create a border for the image with the Rectangle Tool

The Rectangle Tool is a tool to create drawings in Illustrator and with a few small tricks you will easily turn the Rectangle Tool into a tool to create borders for images.

Step 1: First, open Illustrator and add the image you want to create a border into the software.

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Step 2: Then you proceed to select the Rectangle Tool (shortcut M).

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Step 3: Next you need to draw a rectangle with the Retangle Tool, the size of this rectangle must be larger than the size of the image.

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Step 4: When you have finished drawing the rectangle, right-click on the rectangle and select Arrange -> Bring Forward.

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Step 5: Now you have the border for the image, but the border is still deviated and you need to re-align them to be more complete. You select the Selection Tool (V) and proceed to create a selection including the image and the border.

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Step 6: When you have selected the image and border, the Align tool set will appear, choose Horizontal Align Center and Vertical Align Center respectively to align vertically and horizontally.

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And this is our result after finishing creating the border and aligning the border for the image.

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Method 2: Create a border for the image with the Pen Tool

Pen Tool is the pen tool in Illustrator and this way, you just need to use the Pen Tool to draw contours around the image.

Step 1: First, open the image and select the Pen Tool (Shortcut P).

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Step 2: Then you set the thickness of the border in the Strock section of the Appearance section, usually the thickness of the border is 0.03 cm.

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Step 3: Next, you draw borders around the image, the first point of the Pen Tool you put in the corner of the image so that they drag themselves.

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Step 4: After drawing the border is complete, you will get the result as shown below, if you do not want to contour the border, here it is finished.

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Step 5: If you want to curve the border, select the Selection Tool (V) and click on the drawn border. Next, you press Ctrl to show the contour buttons and drag them to create the curvature.

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Step 6: Once completed, you will get a result similar to the image below.

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In this article, TipsMake has shown you how to create borders for images in Illustrator software quickly and effectively. Wishing you all a nice day!

Samuel Daniel

Update 11 July 2021