Add Border

1What is Add Border?

Add stylish borders with custom color, width, style and corner radius.

Add Border is part of the Pixly suite of professional image tools. It runs entirely in your browser with no software to install, requires no design experience, and delivers results in seconds — whether you are processing one image or an entire batch. Every operation is applied on the full-quality decoded image, so the output preserves the fidelity of your original file.

2How does Add Border work?

The border engine expands the canvas by your chosen width on all sides and fills the new frame with the selected color, solid, dashed or double style. The original pixels are never resampled — the canvas grows around them, so image quality is untouched. Dashed borders are drawn with anti-aliased segments at a fixed dash rhythm proportioned to the border width.

Output dimensions grow by exactly twice the border width, and the engine can optionally keep the result square by padding the shorter dimension — handy for consistent social galleries.

3How to use Add Border — step by step

Using Add Border takes less than a minute from upload to download. The tool card at the top of this page is the live editor — everything below explains exactly what happens behind the scenes.

1. Step 1. Upload an image.
2. Step 2. Pick border color, width and style.
3. Step 3. Download the framed image.

4Key features at a glance

• Custom border color
• Adjustable width
• Solid, dashed, dotted styles
• Corner radius control

Each feature is designed to solve a specific, real-world problem — from page-speed optimization for developers to platform-perfect sizes for social media managers. Together they make Add Border a dependable part of any image workflow.

5Pro tips for the best results

A few professional habits will get noticeably better output from Add Border:

• A 10–20 px white border makes product photos look catalog-clean.
• Match the border color to your page background for a framed, editorial feel.

6Who uses Add Border?

Web developers rely on it to keep pages fast — properly prepared images are the single biggest performance win most sites can make. Designers use it for the last mile of production work: format handoffs, corner rounding, frames and exports that match the platform they are shipping to.

E-commerce teams process entire product catalogs to consistent sizes and weights, which measurably improves load speed and conversion. Content creators and social media managers depend on it for daily platform-ready assets, while students and office teams use it to shrink scans and photos so they fit comfortably inside emails, forms and presentations.

7Supported image formats

Add Border works with all widely used image formats. Each format has strengths that make it the right choice for a particular job:

8Privacy & security

Your images stay yours. Files are transferred over an encrypted connection, processed on secure servers, and automatically deleted within 24 hours — nothing is shared with third parties and nothing is used for training or advertising. Because Pixly works in the browser, you can also process images from any device without installing software or creating an account.

9Frequently asked questions