Design

Add Border to Image

Add customizable borders to images with various styles, colors, and widths

file· File resultOpen tool

Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/image-add-border' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/imageFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-add-border' \
  -F 'imageFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'borderStyle=solid' \
  -F 'borderWidth=10' \
  -F 'borderColor=#000000' \
  -F 'borderOpacity=1' \
  -F 'borderRadius=0' \
  -F 'backgroundColor=#ffffff' \
  -F 'outputFormat=png' \
  -F 'quality=90'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-add-border

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
imageFile	fileupload required	Yes	Upload any image file to add border to
borderStyle	select	Yes	Choose the style of border to add
borderWidth	number	No	Width of the border in pixels
borderColor	color	No	Color of the border
borderOpacity	number

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-image-add-border": {
      "name": "image-add-border",
      "description": "Add customizable borders to images with various styles, colors, and widths",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=image-add-border",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "image-add-border",
    "arguments": {
  "imageFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "borderStyle": "solid",
  "borderWidth": 10,
  "borderColor": "#000000",
  "borderOpacity": 1,
  "borderRadius": 0,
  "backgroundColor": "#ffffff",
  "outputFormat": "png",
  "quality": 90
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).