Darren

If you are using Visualizer Photo FX v.1.51 or later, you can design and share your own picture frames. In the following tutorial you will learn how to slice a frame into pieces and connect them in a Picture Frame Plugin.

Create a designer picture frame for Visualizer Photo FX.

If you want to study more tutorials for Visualizer Photo FX, please click on the link below.

Visualizer Photo FX Tutorials.

Have fun and enjoy

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Paddy

This ability to make your own frames is great Darren. As you probably have guessed, I have had to have a go but sadly I was not successful. I did get a frame but I obviously wasn't precise enough on the selections as I got a bit of white showing through.

The other problem had I got that bit right was the 'resolution' of the frame segments. It looked quite 'messy' on the texture of the frame, as if the pieces were very enlarged. Could you give an idea as to what size the frame needs to be in the original design stage, i.e. would I start off with a new document in PS of 800x600 pix or 10" x 8"? And, as a rough guide, how wide should the strips be?

Thanks for another great 'do it yourself' addition to PhotoFX

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Darren

I had a sneaking suspicion you would be the first to give it a try Paddy Thanks for asking this question, as I am sure others who want to learn how to make their own Picture Frames, might be sitting with the same question but may be afraid to ask.

The size of the document doesn't really matter, what matters is that all pieces are sliced into squares, which means that all sides of the square have the exact same size. In the illustration below I have zoomed in on the design and made a selection that is 0.486 on all sides, which fits perfectly on this frame. Now depending on the width and height of your frame, your dimensions may be different, but always make sure that all pieces are sliced into squares.



As mentioned in the tutorial, crop the selected area, save the slice and go back in the history panel to where you created the selection. Then drag the selection to the next location you want to slice, and repeat this until all 8 pieces have been sliced into squares.

Below you will see the 8 pieces that needs to be sliced into each their own jpg file.

• Left Top Corner
• Top area
• Right Top Corner
• Left area
• Right area
• Left Bottom Corner
• Bottom area
• Right Bottom Corner

When using PS, the info panel is a great help (as shown in the illustration above), as you have complete control of your selection, making it easier to turn it into a square. Also make sure to use the first illustration in the tutorial as a guideline to where to drag your selection, to crop and save.

I hope this will help you Paddy, and thanks for always putting these tutorials into use. This is what they are there for, and hopefully they bring more fun to Photo FX users who wants to go the extra mile

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Paddy

Thanks for the extra info Darren. I will disappear into my 'darkroom' and have another go at it. Really looking forward to getting to grips with this as fully customisable frames are not easy to come by, this is a really good add on feature

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Paddy

Well, here it is. My first custom made frame. Is it spectacular? Well no... Is it fancy? Err no.... Is it mine? Yep, sure is. At the click of a button, well almost, I can repeat this frame on as many pictures as I like and it will be consistent. Now I have the hang of it, I will start to make better frames and borders. What a great tool!!!

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Darren

Outstanding Paddy and congratulations on a great first attempt!!! It's right on the money, and shows exactly how it is done. Great work

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BevB

Brilliant Paddy!!!! and what a gorgeous pair of dogs (right little posers!) i am going to have a go at this but i need a few hours to settle down and go through the tutorial, as im absolutely useless with figures and measurements and at the moment im using a freebie frame software, but its a lazy way and i like the idea of designing your own....so if i dont try i wont succeed!! Brilliant extra piece of software....Applause to Visualizer Group!!!!!

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