Step 11: Trim Away The Excess White Space Around The Photo

Once you're happy with the photo border effect you've created, you'll probably want to clean things up by trimming away all the extra white area around the photo. To do that, go up to the Image menu at the top of the screen and choose Trim. When the "Trim" dialog box appears, make sure you have the Top Left Pixel Color option selected in the Based On section at the top, which is going to tell Photoshop to trim away everything that's the same color as the color of the pixel in the top left corner of the document. Also, make sure you have all four options at the bottom - Top, Bottom, Left, and Right - selected:

Click OK to exit out of the dialog box and have Photoshop trim away all the extra white space, leaving only your image and the photo border effect around it:

And there we have it! There's just a few examples of how easy it is to create interesting photo borders in Photoshop using nothing more than a simple layer mask and Photoshop's filters!

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