How to add border for an image?

Question

I use \includegraphics command to insert image to the document. But how can I add a border around this image w/o any margin between border lines and image? It seems to be very easy, but I can't find it in the documentation.

Answer 1

You can add a frame around it by placing it inside a \fbox{...} command.

\fbox{\includegraphics[options]{image}}

The distance can be set by changing the \fboxsep length and the line width with the \fboxrule length, e.g. to draw a tight 1pt thick rule around the image use:

{%
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\fboxrule}{1pt}%
\fbox{\includegraphics[options]{image}}%
}%

Using a recent version of my adjustbox package you can use:

\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
% ...
\includegraphics[<your options>,frame]{image}% tight frame
% or 
\includegraphics[<your options>,fbox]{image}% Like normal \fbox

There is also cframe and cfbox for colored frames. All of these allow for multiple optional values, e.g. frame=<rule width>. See the manual for more information.

Answer 2

I've found that \frame{\includegraphics{image}} command works for my case.

Answer 3

You need more fancy frame? The settings that you can adjust:

\fboxsep=10mm%padding thickness
\fboxrule=4pt%border thickness

and

%\fcolorbox{bordercolor}{paddingcolor}{image}
\fcolorbox{red}{yellow}{\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{foobarbaz}}

\documentclass[demo]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}


\fboxsep=10mm%padding thickness
\fboxrule=4pt%border thickness

\begin{document}

\blindtext

\begin{figure}[hbtp]
\centering
%\fcolorbox{bordercolor}{paddingcolor}{image}
\fcolorbox{red}{yellow}{\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{foobarbaz}}
\caption{This is a black box for demo purpose.}
\label{fig:foobarbaz}
\end{figure}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Answer 4

A tcbox (or a tcolorbox) were missing in this list. Some simple examples:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\begin{document}
    \tcbox{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{frog}}
    
    \tcbox[colframe=green!30!black,
           colback=green!30]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{frog}}
    
    \tcbox[sharp corners, boxsep=5mm, boxrule=1mm, 
            colframe=green!30!black, colback=white]
            {\includegraphics[width=5cm]{frog}}
\end{document}

Update

An alternative to tcbox is tcbincludegraphics command:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\begin{document}
    \tcbincludegraphics[width=5cm]{frog}

    \tcbincludegraphics[colframe=green!30!black,
           colback=green!30, graphics options={height=2cm}, width=.25\linewidth]{frog}

    \tcbincludegraphics[hbox, size=fbox, graphics options={width=3cm}, sharp corners, colframe=red]{frog}
\end{document}

Answer 5

Somebody tell me if I've missed an answer already covering this, but my favourite way to do this is using efbox and this is my go-to image-framer for simple framing.

\documentclass[border=9pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{efbox,graphicx}
\efboxsetup{linecolor=green,linewidth=10pt}
\begin{document}
  \efbox{\includegraphics{cath-gadael-chartref}}
\end{document}

[Disclaimer: code for the image is somewhere on this site, but it's mine so I don't feel obligated to find it.]

Answer 6

For someone who wants to achieve a similar affect in ConTeXt, \externalfigure accepts all the options of \framed, so one can draw a border using:

\externalfigure[file][frame=on]

Answer 7

I use this command.

 \usepackage{graphicx} 

 \setlength{\fboxsep}{0.005pt}
 \newcommand{\tmpframe}[1]{\fbox{#1}}
%\renewcommand{\tmpframe}[1]{#1}

use example:

  \begin{figure}
      \centering
      \tmpframe{\includegraphics[width=0.99\linewidth]{images/pathToImage.png}}
      \caption{Some caption text).}  
      \label{fig:myRef}
  \end{figure}

If you want to print a picture without a frame, use renewcomand in comment.