tsBorder allows you to overlay a semi transparent border on block elements. You can choose your preferred border colour, opacity and thickness in pixels.
Adding a 10px black border with 0.3 (30%) opacity
//black 10px border
$('#box1 img').tsBorder({
thickness: 10,
color: '#000000',
opacity:0.3
});
See http://faffyman.github.io/tsBorder for more examples.