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Adding a border to photos, movies, and widgets

You can add a decorative picture frame border or a stylized border to photos, movies, and some widgets that appear on your webpages. The instructions below apply to adding a border to any of the following:

  • Movies or photo albums that appear on the My Albums index page

  • Individual photos that appear on any webpage, including photos added using the iSight Photo widget

  • Photos that appear on photos pages

  • MobileMe Gallery, YouTube, and Google Maps widgets

To add or change a border:

  1. Select the album, image, or widget by clicking it.

  2. If the Graphic inspector isn’t open, click the Inspector button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the Graphic button.

  3. Image of the Graphic Inspector button.
  4. Choose Picture Frame or Line from the Stroke pop-up menu.

  5. Image of Stroke settings in the Graphic Inspector
  6. Do one of the following:

    • If you chose Picture Frame, click the blue box and choose the style you want, and then drag the slider left or right to modify the thickness of the frame.

    • If you chose Line, choose the style of line you want. Click the color well, and then choose a color from the Colors window. To change the thickness of the line, choose a point size from the pop-up menu to the right of the color well.

You can also change the frame of photos on photos pages, or the border around albums on albums index pages by using the Photo Grid window and the Media Index window, respectively. For more information, see Related Topics below.


Related Topics

Changing the layout of photos on a Photos template

Changing the layout of an albums page

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