How to Add Professional EXIF Data Borders to Your Photos on Mobile

If you frequently browse creative social spaces like Threads, Instagram, or Behance, you have likely noticed a beautiful trend among photographers: gorgeous landscape and portrait images bounded by minimalist white borders. What makes these borders special is that they display precise shooting metadata – such as the camera model, lens name, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO value.

These are EXIF Borders (or Margins). EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data is the metadata automatically recorded by your camera when you press the shutter. Adding these parameters on a bottom margin gives photos an editorial, gallery-ready look, while making it easy to share technical settings with other photography lovers.

In this guide, we will walk you through how to add exif border to photos on your phone automatically using Modipix.

1. Introducing Modipix's EXIF Border Feature

Modipix is a powerful offline photo editor designed to make layout and border customisation easy. Instead of writing out shooting parameters manually using heavy graphic design tools, Modipix reads your metadata and handles the process automatically:

A. 24 Built-In Artistic Templates

The app includes 24 beautiful pre-loaded templates, ranging from minimal borders and classic polaroid grids to clean studio layouts. These formats automatically adapt to various image aspect ratios (1:1, 4:3, 16:9, etc.) and will be expanded in future updates.

Select from 24 artistic EXIF border templates in Modipix

B. Unlimited Customisation Control

Beyond presets, Modipix gives you full creative control over the layout to match the exact aesthetic of your photos. You can easily adjust:

Border Colours: Go with standard gallery white, dark black, classic ivory beige, or choose any custom colour.
Fonts and Typography: Select matching serifs or clean modern sans-serif typefaces.
Opacity and Weights: Change the text intensity or border thickness to look bold or subtle.
Direct Content Editing: If your image does not contain EXIF data (e.g. downloaded files) or you wish to override the camera values for artistic choices (such as renaming a phone camera to a Leica), simply tap the text box and edit the values directly.

Fine-tune border colours, fonts, and text content in Modipix settings

2. Step-by-Step Guide to Adding EXIF Borders in Modipix

To style your photos like a gallery print, download Modipix on your device and follow these 4 steps:

Step 1: Open your image and select the Frame tool

Import your photo into Modipix. On the bottom editing toolbar, scroll and tap the Frame tool.

Step 2: Choose your template layout

Modipix will automatically parse the hidden metadata from your photo and populate the fields. Browse the list of 24 built-in designs at the bottom and tap one to see a live preview.

Step 3: Customise colours, fonts, and edit metadata

Tap the settings gear icon to access custom options:

Tap the colour swatches to change the background or text colour.
Scroll through the typography panel to change your font.
Tap directly on any EXIF text labels (like f/2.8, 1/250s, or ISO 100) to rewrite or modify the parameters as desired.

Step 4: Export in high resolution

Once satisfied with the design, tap Export. Select the 2048px preset in the export options bottom sheet to save your photo with crisp details, ready to be uploaded to social platforms without compression loss.

3. Conclusion

Adding an EXIF border is a clean, classic way to elevate your mobile photography. With Modipix's direct metadata reading and 24 preset layouts, creating gallery-quality photo frames takes just seconds.

Download Modipix on the App Store or Google Play today to start framing your photography with professional metadata margins!