mivox - 6:35 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

I couldn't say for sure, but I'd bet there are Photoshop/PSP plug-ins for a wide variety of text effects, including bordering. However here are two techniques I've used to acheive the same effect in Photoshop:

a. Make a magic wand selection of the blank area of your text layer
b. Create a new layer beneath your text
c. Use your Select menu to "select inverse"
d. Use the Select menu to "modify selection" -> Expand -> X pixels
e. Fill the expanded selection in the lower layer with whatever border color you want to use.

--or--

a. Render your tect layer (or duplicate the layer and render the copy)
b. Make a magic wand selection of the blank area of the rendered layer
c. Use your Select menu to "select inverse"
d. Use your edit menu to "Stroke" around the selection with the desired color and pixel width

That said (now that my fingers are cramped from all that typing... ;) ) I can't help but think there's an easier/faster/better looking way! Anyone?