Picture frame to surround an image

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jmf3002
Aug 19, 2008
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Isn’t there same clever picture frame app or plug-in that I can use to put around a photoshop image?

I’ve got CS3 and am placing some Photoshop images into an InDesign document. It seems to me that I’ve seen what I need before in either InDesign or Photoshop, but now that I need it, I can’t find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

John
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Jim_Jordan
Aug 19, 2008
What is your concept of a frame?

InDesign can stroke the outside of any graphic.
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jmf3002
Aug 19, 2008
Right.
But I thought I saw something that is actually a graphic of a frame – one with wood texture, etc.

Is there something like that?
JJ
John Joslin
Aug 19, 2008
Look in the installed actions you can load from the drop-down in the Actions Palette.
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Ken_Nielsen
Aug 19, 2008
I make frames the old fashioned way. I find pieces of frame photos that are what I want and then hack them apart and construct them in a PS file using layers. This is the only way to truly get the exact look you want IMHO.
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Jim_Jordan
Aug 19, 2008
You can start your collection by going to <http://www.sxc.hu> to pick up a few free photos of frames.
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Welles_Goodrich
Aug 19, 2008
Human Software has a whole collection of ‘ClassicFrames’ which is a PS plugin with ten different series of frame types. While the frames really are pretty good, there is one major drawback. Even though they offer portrait and landscape versions, as most images aren’t perfectly scaled to their basic proportions, as soon as the sides vary from those, one pair of sides gets thinner than the other. If you are close to 3:4 or 4:3 they work well. If your image differs greatly what you have to do is a bit of makeshift cutting and pasting. I always thought that limitation was a little hokey but still have used the frames on occasion. They have a series of circular and oval frames which work very well.

< http://www.humansoftware.com/pages1200/ClassicFrame/HSclafra m11.html>
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Paul M Norman
Aug 19, 2008
For frames and frame effects I use OnOne’s PhotoFrame Pro. <http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/photoframe.php>

Pricey but a real gas.

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