Quote Originally Posted by Qbista View Post
About Your question about border style - I know, that You're working with GIMP - but do anybody of Your friends/co-workers have Photoshop? You could easily gain wanted effects using one simple Layer Style - Inner Glow.
Tell me, if You'll have way to use Photoshop, in that case I'll write You some tut how to give your borders fancy 'antique' fading style (I just need to choose appropriate settings).
Gimp has such a plug-in, you just have to go get it and drop it into the correct folder and restart GIMP.