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Borders, Dividers, and Separators

I love to use borders and dividers to dress up my lenses. Borders and clipart can break up long blocks of text to make your lens more readable. They can add a splash of color and some visual interest.

I have three lenses of free dividers. One of them manages to get found but the other two go pretty much unnoticed. I thought if I put them all together in one place they would be easier to find and could provide you with some other options for clipart dividers.

All of these lenses contain instructions on how to get the clip art page borders onto your lens.

All of these dividers are either made by me or derived from public domain sources so they are completely free to use. A link back to my lens would be nice but not mandatory. Each lens has a plexo called "Borders and Dividers in Action." You can add your lenses to show how you used decorative dividers.

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Borders and Dividers for use on Squidoo
GIMP
More Borders and Dividers
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom
Even More Borders and Dividers for use o...

Clip Art Dividers

On this lens you will find techno borders, flowers, fancy borders, food borders, all kinds of things to make your lenses look great! There are holiday borders, dividers and separators too, including Christmas, Autumn and Valentine dividers.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program

If you need a program to work with images and don't want to spend the money for Photoshop you can download GIMP for free. This is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. There is lots of online help for learning this program.
Download it here at The Official GIMP Web Site

More Borders and Dividers

Graphic Dividers

Here you will find beautiful vintage borders and critters such as bugs, crabs, butterflies, horses, chicks, whales and kitties. Farther down the lens there are objects such as royal crowns, a tomahawk, and some typewriters. Leaves and flowers also make an apearance here!

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make your own borders and dividers

Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Old Version

Amazon Price: $1,995.00 (as of 05/29/2012)

* Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop CS4 software offers with a more intuitive user interface and features that put you in control
* Bring your vision to life with industry-leading tools that let you enhance images and create composites that help meet your highest standards
* Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors
* Access the unrivaled power of Adobe Photoshop CS4 software through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements
* Photoshop CS4 features new ways to make image adjustments and create masks, more powerful compositing, improved color correction, accelerated graphics handling, and enhanced raw image processing

Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom

Learn about Photoshop

Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training)

by: Jennifer Smith, AGI Creative Team

Amazon Price: $15.99 (as of 05/30/2012)

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems.

Even More Borders and Dividers for use on Squidoo

More Free Dividers

This lens has vintage borders along with several art deco ones. There are some simple line dividers along with some "The End" graphics.

Border, Dividers and Separators in Action

How have you used Clip Art Page Borders?

Whatever you call them, borders, dividers, separators, filler, or eye candy, they really can spark up your lens! See them in action on these lenses.

Clipart Dividers at work!

See how these lensmasters use graphic dividers.

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I hope you enjoyed this page of free dividers!

Use borders and clipart to make your lenses pop!

I plan to make another lens or two with more borders, dividers and separators, as soon as I find the time. It is quite time consuming to search out the old ones and clean them up to make them presentable. I do still have some in my collection that I have not made lenses of yet so maybe I will start there!

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Millionairemomma May 30, 2012 @ 12:40 am | delete

Helpful resources!

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arperinos Feb 23, 2012 @ 12:21 pm | delete

Great,thank you for sharing !

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arperinos Feb 23, 2012 @ 12:21 pm | delete

Great,thank you for sharing !

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ladykida Dec 25, 2011 @ 10:56 am | delete

Thanks for the work put into this lens! I would have never known about borders and dividers otherwise.

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kiwinana71 Dec 23, 2011 @ 10:00 pm | delete

Thank you for this lens, I wanted to use dividers, on my lens but did not know what to do. While reading another lens-master lens, I came across your lens.Just what I needed Thanks. Blessed