1K+ Border Clip Art Images for Making Photo Frames
Applying digital frame or border to an otherwise flat image can make it more interesting. That is why digital artists, scrapbook enthusiasts, photographers, bloggers, and graphic designers are always on a lookout for digital frames and borders. If you are using Adobe Photoshop to edit your images, applying frames or borders can be done in four major ways: through vector border clip art and graphics (eps, cdr, ai files), Photoshop brushes (ABR files), Photoshop custom shapes (CSH files), and Photoshop actions (ATN files).
In this post, we compiled all the best available free border clip art designs for creating digital frames in Adobe Photoshop. The resources below are grouped based on the types of graphics. To download the border clip art designs that you want simply click on the preview image and it will take you to a new page where you can get more information about it as well as the download link. I hope you will find these resources useful in your design projects.
I. Vector Border Clip Art and Frames
Using vector border clip art graphics, you can easily frame your photos to make them look more interesting. Simply place the .eps, .pdf or .ai file in your Photoshop window, apply masking and presto! you have a framed photo. Below we listed some vector frames and borders that you may get for free.
01-8 Awesome Vector Frames via Vecteezy
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02-Antique Vector Frames from Freevector.com
Here is a pack of detailed vector border clip art decoration templates, labels, and design elements. These vintage images pack is in Adobe Illustrator format and features floral details, swirls and abstract decorations.
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03-European Gorgeous Classic Frame Vector
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04– Vector Borders With Leaves Ornaments
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05-Vector Floral Frames, Borders & Corners
This set contains 7 free floral frames, borders, and corners in vector format. Use these floral frames, borders, and corners creatively to make your designs and photos more attractive and lively.
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06-Art Nouveau Floral Design
A set of two floral decorative frames in vector format to frame your designs and images.
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07-50 Free Vector Grunge Corners by Bittbox
Here is a pack of 50 vector grunge corners for framing your designs. Since these are vectors, you can stretch them to any size you want without losing any pixel.
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08-Gorgeous Vintage European Frame Vector
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09-Vintage Golden Frames by Dezignus
A set of vector frames featuring detailed floral ornaments, some grunge scratches, and retro circles. Colored in golden style gradients.
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10-Simple Borders Vector
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II. Border Clip Art Photoshop Brushes for Creating Frames
Perhaps, the quickest way to create frames for your photos in Photoshop is through the use of brushes. When using brushes, all you need to do is create a layer in Photoshop on top of the photo that you want to frame. There are actually plenty of frames brushes that you can download for free. These frames Photoshop brushes range from simple shapes to decorative borders like flowers, swirls, hearts, among others. Below, we listed 10 of what we think are the best free brushes out there that you can use for framing your pictures in Adobe Photoshop.
01-Floral Frames Brushes
8 beautiful frame Photoshop brushes compatible with Photoshop 7 and later versions.
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02-Border and Frames
A total of 100 medium-resolution brushes composed of borders and frames of various shapes and decorations. These brushes are intended for web-related designs because of their sizes/resolutions.
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03-Comic Strip Starter Frames by ~psologist
Here are 15 comic strip starter frames. Ideal also for making a collage of your pictures.
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04-Flower Frames from Lileya
This frame Photoshop brushes pack was made in Photoshop CS and is also guaranteed to work in higher or later versions of Photoshop.
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05-Fancy Frames
Includes 6 decorative frames brushes and an image pack.
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06-Journal Tags Label Frames
There are 5 journal tags/bookplates/label frames and borders in PNG format with a transparent background in this set. There are 3 – 4 layers for each item, 1 background, 1 frame border and 1 file with the frame and background together. The files are high-resolution, ranging from 6-12 inches.
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07-Electrify Frames
Set of 53 brushes for frames, in different shapes and size (from small to large). Brushes are made in PS CS2.
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08-Grunge Edges, Borders, Frames by Dezignus
Here is a new set of grunge Photoshop brushes featuring edges, borders, and frames. You may use these brushes to spoil any image and create really stunning eye-catching graphics.
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09-Bri’s Picture Frame brushes
There are 9 picture frame brushes. Some are very big in size but some are very small.
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10-Retro Frames
Set of 9 retro frames for framing your photos and images.
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III. Photoshop Custom Shapes: Border Clip Art
Another useful tool that you can use for framing images is Photoshop custom shapes (with file extension CSH). Since these are vector shapes, you can actually use them in large designs and layout without worrying about resolution. Using custom shapes you can easily frame your pictures. Simply put your shape below the image that you want to frame and apply “image clipping” for a perfect fit. Here are 10 useful frames and border Photoshop shapes that you may download and use for free.
01-Free Oval Frame Shapes Vectors and PNG Clipart
Here are 8 journal tags, bookplates, label oval frames in EPS, AI, SVG (vector graphics). This set also comes with custom shapes for Photoshop and brushes that may be used in Photoshop and Gimp. There are also transparent PNG clip art files in this set.
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02-Free Label Clip Art Bookplate 4
There are 6 decorative and oval-shaped frames in this set that you may use for free.
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03-Distorted Frames
This set consists of 13 different frames in grunge style that you can use for scrapbooks.
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04-Doodle Frames Custom Shapes and PNGs
A set of doodle frames drawn in Illustrator. There are 10 frames in .csh for Photoshop/PSE and individual PNG files.
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05-Frame and Border Custom Shapes
This .csh file (custom shapes) file for Photoshop contains frames and borders in doodles and decorative designs.
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06-Free APS Frames Custom Shapes by Adobe Photoshop Secrets
This set contains 24 frames and 31 borders segment custom shapes for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
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07-Bracket Frames and Mattes CSH
A set of bracket custom shapes intended for digital scrapping but you may find other uses for them.
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08-Free Frame and Border Custom Shapes for Photoshop and Elements
These free custom shapes by Shelby Kate Schmitz can be used in Photoshop 7 and up and Photoshop Elements 2 and up.
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09-42 Square Frames Custom Shape Set
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10-Free Edgy Shapes for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
A variety of edgy frame shapes for use in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. The small samples shown are just a portion of the shapes in this set.
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IV. Photoshop Actions: Create Frames and Borders in A Single Click
Photoshop actions are also used to create frames and borders for your images in Photoshop. With just a single click, you can apply frames with various effects to your photographs. If you still do not know how to use Photoshop actions (with file extension .atn), you may refer to our earlier post, which discusses how to use Photoshop action step-by-step
01-Photoshop Frame and Mat Actions
This Photoshop frame action set contains around 20 actions which can create a variety of virtual frames and mats for your web-sized photographs in colors of your choice.
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02-Vintage Photo
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03– Photographers Toolkit 1 by Wall
This pack includes a number of fast and good-looking frames as well as some eye-candy that you can use for free in editing your photos.
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04-Border and Bend Photoshop Actions
This set contains 7 free Photoshop actions that produce seven variations of the effect. The final photo is presented as being curved vertically or horizontally. The border and the casted shadow add to the overall impression. The actions let you tweak the border color.
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05-Stickers and Tapes Photoshop Actions
The “Stickers” action turns your image into a round sticker, which you can use with your scrapbooking projects, etc.
The “Clear Tape” action, on the other hand, turns your image into a Polaroid photo and adds sticky tapes on the top edge. You can even add sticky tapes or on each photo corner. In addition, the action creates trapped air bubbles under the tape!
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06-Polaroid Generator
A set of Photoshop actions for creating the polaroid effect in your photographs.
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07-Framing Actions Double
These Photoshop actions add an outer frame to your image. Everything is done in layers so it is quick and easy to tweak it (e.g. change the color of the frame).
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08-Framing actions- Soft Effect
These Photoshop actions add an inner frame to your image. Everything is done in layers so it is quick and easy to tweak it.
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09-Film Strip Photoshop Action
This free Photoshop action adds a film strip frame to your images. The film strip action has three versions; a simple film strip and two film strip templates saved as smart objects with some effects applied. The film strip layout is created using a pattern that you can find inside the ZIP file.
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