Photo borders

[Nedrisely]

Hi folks,
Have several old historical photos that I would like to put a reasonable border around. Once scanned, some will accept a border, others don't - Says "Unable to apply the selected thumbnail's properties to the image."
Am I scanning them incorrectly?
Using PI 10se with Win XP (SP2)

[Jerr]

Quick guess here, CK "image properties", make sure photo is "RGB True Color".
If not change it. Easy Palette border effects require true color.

[Nedrisely]

Thanks Jerr,
Some of the old photos are in sepia. The object of the exercise is to scan them repair & and reprint them to A4 size. Sepia doesn't look so good so was scanning those as greyscale - hence no border available! Thanks again, my 76yo brain has learned once more!