Adding frames to images?

ajf · 28 Aug 2013 at 22:37

How would I go about this frame effect on this sample image?
Obviously I've blocked out the original image but I am interested in the frame and 'card' effect surrounding it.

pryere · 28 Aug 2013 at 23:11

Two separate selections then fill as required?

King Damager · 28 Aug 2013 at 23:38

Surely you could just do this in paint?

Cut out inner rectangle, paste in your image?

kd

ajf · 29 Aug 2013 at 00:09

pryere - so something done in photoshop then?
I guess the frame images could just be found off various sites.
my editing doesn't generally extend outside Lightroom so even this whilst basic is not something I am really familar with doing.

I wasn't thinking for printing, rather for using online. The example was one of many by this person and they looked very good, especially for the images I wanted to try it with.

glosrfc · 29 Aug 2013 at 00:58

It looks like they've tried to simulate a mounting frame. If you use Photoshop, it's a basic four-step method:

Resize the canvas to create the frame border - Image, Canvas Size. Make sure you check the Relative option and have selected the centre Anchor point, then add the size of your frame to the Width and Height boxes.
Create two layers containing the frame, and the image - Ctrl-Click on the image in your layer to select the image, then Layer, New Via Copy.
Go back to the original background and Ctrl-Click the image in the layer again. Then select the frame by using Select, Inverse. Add a pattern/texture to the frame using Layer, New Fill Layer, Pattern. Choose the pattern/texture you want and hit OK.
Select the new copy layer you made of the image, click on the Layer Style icon at the bottom of your layers panel, and choose Bevel/Emboss. Style should be Inner Bevel, Technique should be Chisel Hard. Adjust the Depth, and Sizes as you like.

You can also find plenty of Photoshop actions that do something similar automatically:
http://www.digitalblackandwhite.co....ble-matt-frame-photoshop-action/#!prettyPhoto

Don't forget that Photoshop already has a number of actions built in, including for Frames. Open the Actions Window, click on the little downward arrow in the top-right corner of that window, and select Frames. There should be ones for Cut Out and Recessed frames which do something similar to your image.

An Exception · 29 Aug 2013 at 09:35

I think pictures look better without fake frames tbh, although sometimes movie screen shaped black bars can work ok, at least for the right image.

Nexus · 29 Aug 2013 at 09:51

I'd just buy a frame that already has a frame surround for the print to go in. Will look far better than a printed simulated one.

King Damager · 29 Aug 2013 at 12:33

An Exception said:
I think pictures look better without fake frames tbh, although sometimes movie screen shaped black bars can work ok, at least for the right image.

Someone on here I'm pretty sure went through a phase of doing movie aspect ratio with black bars on some HDR shots of London that worked quite well, but I agree that it has to be the right image. Fake frames certainly look a bit tacky, although if you're ordering a frame online I guess it would be useful to give you an idea of what it might look like as a final product.

kd

Raymond Lin · 29 Aug 2013 at 13:47

King Damager said:
Someone on here I'm pretty sure went through a phase of doing movie aspect ratio with black bars on some HDR shots of London that worked quite well, but I agree that it has to be the right image. Fake frames certainly look a bit tacky, although if you're ordering a frame online I guess it would be useful to give you an idea of what it might look like as a final product.

kd

Clown, and in that case, the black bars compliment it.

In general, fake frames online screams people who just got into photography and it is a way of tarting up a photo.

Spend more time shooting the photo, less time outside it. A strong image do not need distractions around it.

In print however, a nice frame is important (you do it to suit the decor of the room it is in) but online, less is more.

pryere · 29 Aug 2013 at 17:56

ajf said:
pryere - so something done in photoshop then?
I guess the frame images could just be found off various sites.
my editing doesn't generally extend outside Lightroom so even this whilst basic is not something I am really familar with doing.

I wasn't thinking for printing, rather for using online. The example was one of many by this person and they looked very good, especially for the images I wanted to try it with.

Yes, or GIMP etc.

ajf · 29 Aug 2013 at 19:50

glosrfc said:
It looks like they've tried to simulate a mounting frame. If you use Photoshop, it's a basic four-step method:

Resize the canvas to create the frame border - Image, Canvas Size. Make sure you check the Relative option and have selected the centre Anchor point, then add the size of your frame to the Width and Height boxes.

Create two layers containing the frame, and the image - Ctrl-Click on the image in your layer to select the image, then Layer, New Via Copy.

Go back to the original background and Ctrl-Click the image in the layer again. Then select the frame by using Select, Inverse. Add a pattern/texture to the frame using Layer, New Fill Layer, Pattern. Choose the pattern/texture you want and hit OK.

Select the new copy layer you made of the image, click on the Layer Style icon at the bottom of your layers panel, and choose Bevel/Emboss. Style should be Inner Bevel, Technique should be Chisel Hard. Adjust the Depth, and Sizes as you like.

You can also find plenty of Photoshop actions that do something similar automatically:
http://www.digitalblackandwhite.co....ble-matt-frame-photoshop-action/#!prettyPhoto

Don't forget that Photoshop already has a number of actions built in, including for Frames. Open the Actions Window, click on the little downward arrow in the top-right corner of that window, and select Frames. There should be ones for Cut Out and Recessed frames which do something similar to your image.

Thanks.
I will have a bit of an experiment with that then and see what I can produce. it wasn't something I want to over use, but like trying new things that I spot occasionally as different way to present images.

ajf · 29 Aug 2013 at 19:53

Raymond Lin said:
Clown, and in that case, the black bars compliment it.

In general, fake frames online screams people who just got into photography and it is a way of tarting up a photo.

Spend more time shooting the photo, less time outside it. A strong image do not need distractions around it.

In print however, a nice frame is important (you do it to suit the decor of the room it is in) but online, less is more.

Don't disagree, but the site I found them on I think worked well.
This is the flickr album that I found but he has several others with various ideas. Not all use, or need, frames.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philcilcain/sets/72157605824305492/

Genoma · 29 Aug 2013 at 20:13

No that is framing overkill.