Updated to add individual border width controls. 8/9/09

Updated to fix some glitchy results in the border drawing. 29/10/08

This is another reincarnation of some code that I used for a DVE plugin that I pulled together a few years ago for Star TV, the Hong Kong based pan-asian satellite TV network where I worked as a staff editor for a time. Long buried and probably better left that way I hauled the code kicking and screaming out of the darkness when a few folks seemed to be clamoring for an easy way to add a border that followed their crops. I think the salient point here is “easy”.  Rather than fleshing it out into a picture in picture generator or similar, it seems much better suited to one trick pony status. Far from the most polished of my freebie plug-in offerings, it fills the gap when needed.

NOTE:  This version apparently includes a “Feather” option ... but it’s an option that actually shouldn’t be there. It was something that was going to be added way back when, but in the meantime my buddy Alex Gollner (aka Alex4D) already released his own free crop plugin to allow exactly that.  It’s a superb plugin and you can grab it directly from his website /blog, over here: http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/alex4d-crop/ ... certainly no need to replicate what he’s already done, so if you want to do the border thing then by all means grab mine, but if it’s the feather thing you need then you should definitely go get Alex’s.