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Add White Border to Photo

Add a clean white border around any photo in your browser, free.

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Frame your photo with a crisp white edge, ready for a feed or a print.

Why use our Add White Border to Photo tool?

A white border gives a photo room to breathe and makes a feed look deliberate. Add one, pick the thickness, and download, free.

Built for the browser

Works right in your browser, free, with no software to install and no watermarks.

Thickness you control

Go from a hairline edge to a wide gallery frame.

Square it up for social

Pad a portrait or landscape shot into a square without cropping anything out.

Quality preserved

Cloudinary keeps your output crisp and true to the original.

Do it at scale

Process one file or thousands with our free API and add a white border automatically, with no manual steps.

Format versatility

Works with all major formats, so your result fits right into your workflow.

How to add a white border in 3 steps

Add your border in 3 simple steps. Upload your photo, set the border, and download.

Upload your image

Drag and drop your image into the browser, or upload it from your device.

Set your border

Choose how thick the white frame should be.

Download

Save your result, with no watermarks.

Go beyond a white border

Frame and finish your images with more free tools: Add Border to Image, Add Shadow to Image, Square Crop Image.

A woman and a golden retriever in the mountains. They're sitting, facing away from the camera while the dog noses the woman. They're surrounded by natural splendor including majestic mountains, puffy clouds, and evergreen-studded hills.
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A woman and a golden retriever in the mountains. They're sitting, facing away from the camera while the dog noses the woman. They're surrounded by natural splendor including majestic mountains, puffy clouds, and evergreen-studded hills.
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Frequently Asked Questions

It adds a white frame around your photo, right in your browser, with no software to install.

Upload a photo, choose how thick you want the border, and the tool pads the image with white and gives you the result.

Yes, it’s free to use online. Just upload your photo and download the framed version.

No. The border is added around the image, so nothing is cut off. That also makes it an easy way to fit a photo into a square frame.

Yes. Developers can add padding and a background color with the Cloudinary API, so every upload comes out framed the same way.

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