Step 17: Delete The Solid White Layer ("Layer 2")

To make our image look a little more interesting, let's first delete our solid white layer. Click on "Layer 2" in the Layers palette and drag it down on to the trash bin at the bottom of the palette:

You'll be left with only two layers in the Layers palette, and the Background layer will be selected:

Your photo border will also seem to have disappeared in your document window, but don't worry, it's still there. We just can't see it at the moment.

Step 18: Select The Eyedropper Tool

We're going to sample a color from the image. For that, we'll need the Eyedropper Tool, so select it from the Tools palette:

Step 19: Sample A Color From The Image

With the Eyedropper Tool selected, click on a color from the image that would work nicely as a color for the border. I'm going to sample a light brown color from the woman's hair:

You'll see the color you've sampled appear in the Foreground color swatch near the bottom of the Tools palette:

Step 20: Add A "Hue/Saturation" Adjustment Layer

With the Background layer selected in the Layers palette, click on the New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the palette:

Then select Hue/Saturation from the list of adjustment layers that appears:

When the Hue/Saturation dialog box appears, select the Colorize option in the bottom right corner. This will colorize the border around your image using the color you sampled a moment ago. I'm going to darken my border as well by lowering the Lightness value in the dialog box down to around -60. Finally, I'm going to reduce the saturation of the border color just a little by lowering the Saturation value to around 20:

Click OK when you're done to accept the changes and exit out of the dialog box. If we look at our Layers palette now, we can see our Hue/Saturation adjustment layer sitting between the Background layer and "Layer 1":

And here's what my final border effect now looks like after colorizing and darkening my border:

And there we have it!

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