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[Jarrell Conley]

ISO, I appreciate the information on framing so much. I knew there was a simple way of doing it, I just didn't know how. I'm printing your instructions out. Now, I need to figure out how to make the matte have texture.

You wouldn't believe how much I learn at this forum. I pick up one or two things every day. I'm a big believer in the old adage that there's not a person on earth that cannot teach you something. Not one. If I were to walk up to a Zulu tribesman, out in the bush of Africa, who had never been to school a day in his life... just think of all the things he could teach me.

What you see in most of my work with a camera... WORK! It's not work! How can it be work if you love it! What you see comes from a facination all my life with art. I started drawing as a kid and didn't stop til a few years back. I got fairly good at it... here's a sample, a drawing of a farmer I knew. A drawing meant to be rough and bold like he was.



but, it was good practice learning things like composition, positve and negative space, leading lines, foreground framings etc. Which readily transfers to photography. When you draw, you're really doing most of it from memory, even if you're using a photo as a reference. So, that helps to visualize what a photo will look like.... or rather, what you want it to look like.

Photoshop's canvas feature, you say. Well I'll be darned. I kept wondering what that did. Let me go try that out.
Thanks again,
Jarrell

Hi Char,
I do it in Photoshop. I do it so much, I've gotten quick with it.
If the image is 8x10 and a bit on the dark in tone, I make a "new"
image and leave it white in color and 8.25x10.25 inches at the same
resolution the photo is. I then move the picture over on that
white background and adjust it til it's centered. I then make
another "new" file, this time 11x14 inches, same resolution but I
color sample somewhere in the photo on a pleasing dark tone and I
use the paintbucket to tone the 11x14 file. I then move the photo
with its white border (you have to flatten before moving) onto the
larger file and that's it. You wind up with something like this.

Lol, I can't believe I'm even considering offering suggestions to
one of the masters of craft but here goes...

Jarrell, have you tried your technique for frames by using the
"Canvas Size" feature instead. You don't have to create new images
and do any flatten work, also the original image is perfectly
centered within the new image dimensions (if you increase the width
and height by the same amount).

Here are my steps.

lets say image is 500x375pixels (for email, and posts here for
instance).

Duplicate layer and discard old background layer.
Create a new empty layer and place it underneath the image layer.
Go to Image/Canvas size and increase canvas size to 520x395 lets
say. (20 pixel frame)
The image layer wil now have transparency on the extra canvas
dimensions.
Paint bucket fill the newly created empty layer underneath and
voila! a perfectly centered frame border around your image.

--
CP5000, OM-2n

 

[Jarrell Conley]

Thanks Thomas, I told you guys I do it all the hard way! Hey, I'm learning.

and you can even buttonize one of the borders to add an extra fancy
finish, before or after the next additional border
--
Thomas
http://www.ycsphoto.com

 

[Michael Offe]

Hi ISOMatrix,

I, like Jarrell, always thought that you should be able to do something like you said...

I use Ulead Photo Impact 5 and have often wanted to increase an image's canvas size without enlarging the image. After reading your solution for Photoshop I decided to look for it... well after just 3 mins I found it!

Thanks.

For those of you who have Photo Impact you do this...

Edit > Expand... >
now enter the number of pixels you wish to add to the image in each direction >

Now just select the required colour for the new background/border (right click on the colour selector and click Eyedropper, to choose a colour from the image) >
Click OK.

Now it is all done! Simple eh!

Thanks, ISO for you help, and I hope this helps those of you with Photo Impact.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.

Lol, I can't believe I'm even considering offering suggestions to
one of the masters of craft but here goes...

Jarrell, have you tried your technique for frames by using the
"Canvas Size" feature instead. You don't have to create new images
and do any flatten work, also the original image is perfectly
centered within the new image dimensions (if you increase the width
and height by the same amount).

Here are my steps.

lets say image is 500x375pixels (for email, and posts here for
instance).

Duplicate layer and discard old background layer.
Create a new empty layer and place it underneath the image layer.
Go to Image/Canvas size and increase canvas size to 520x395 lets
say. (20 pixel frame)
The image layer wil now have transparency on the extra canvas
dimensions.
Paint bucket fill the newly created empty layer underneath and
voila! a perfectly centered frame border around your image.

--
CP5000, OM-2n

 

[ISOMatrix]

ISO, I appreciate the information on framing so much. I knew there
was a simple way of doing it, I just didn't know how. I'm printing
your instructions out. Now, I need to figure out how to make the
matte have texture.
You wouldn't believe how much I learn at this forum. I pick up one
or two things every day. I'm a big believer in the old adage that
there's not a person on earth that cannot teach you something. Not
one. If I were to walk up to a Zulu tribesman, out in the bush of
Africa, who had never been to school a day in his life... just
think of all the things he could teach me.

Your quite welcome Jarrell, just glad that I was able to "give back" to this system that also teaches me something new each day! Not only do I get good technical info here, I continually get inspriation and creative juices flowing by hanging out on the finest forum on the net.

As far as your hand drawing........WOW!! Top notch stuff Jarrell! You continue to amaze me with your wealth of talents!!--CP5000, OM-2n

 

[ISOMatrix]

Quite welcome Michael. As I mentioned to Jarrell........just tryin to "give back" something to all the folks like yourself that have helped me so much.

You ever get your images recovered from the flaky CF?--CP5000, OM-2n