Photoshop Elements Big Mat Actions, for Printing AC's Photoshop Elements Big Mats by Adrienne Cleveland

Upgrades     Samples     FAQ     How to Purchase Requirements Works On Photoshop Elements Ver. 1 to 5 on PC Photoshop Elements Ver. 1 to 4 on Mac What about Elements 5 on Mac? Actions for other versions of Elements Note for users of non-English Versions of Elements High-resolution images, for Printing PC or Mac

Need help deciding which frame and mat actions you need? Here's a table that will help you.

This Photoshop Elements mat action set contains actions which can create a variety of virtual mats and backgrounds for your photographs, in colors of your choosing. Here are the mats and backgrounds you can make (some are shown in combination with others, but each can be run individually and combined in any way you want):

• Textured Chiseled Mats
• A Double Mat with Drop Shadow
• A Textured Double Mat with Drop Shadow
• A Double Chiseled Mat
• A Floating Photo effect
• Inner Accent
• Self-Mat with Inner Accent
• Simple Plain Mats
• Simple Textured Mats
• Simple Backgrounds
• If you have both AC's Big Mats and AC's Big Frames

These actions support all aspect ratios: portrait, landscape, and square. Best of all, you can combine them to create truly unique frames of your own design. For instance, use a tiny chiseled mat, followed by a wider chiseled mat. If you have frame actions, you can frame your matted image.

A Few Samples

Textured Chiseled Mats
Double Mat, with Shadow (ShadowMat)
Textured Double Mat, with Shadow (ShadowMatTextured)
Double Chiseled Mat Run the ChiseledMatTiny, and then run one of the wider chiseled mat effects. If you have AC's Web Frames, you can add a frame afterward.
Floating Photo Effect If you apply a floating effect using a background color the same as the paper you will print on, the image will appear to float.
Inner Accent
Self-Mat with Inner Accent Each time you run this action, the area outside the inner accent line gets darker. I ran the action 2 times to get this level of darkness.
Different Self-Mat with Inner Accent This time, I ran both the small and medium versions of the Self-Mat with Inner Accent
Simple Plain Mats
Simple Textured Mats
Simple Backgrounds
If you also have AC's Big Frames The following are some combinations you can create if you have both AC's Big Mats and AC's Big Frames.
Floating Photo, Wide Background, followed by Tiny Frame Note: creating the frame requires AC's Big Frames.
A Classic Frame with extra-wide background First run the extra-wide background effect, then run the Classic Frame effect. Note: creating the frame requires AC's Big Frames.
Chiseled Mat, followed by a Thin Frame Note: creating the frame requires AC's Big Frames.
Background, followed by Simple Beveled Frame Note: creating the frame requires AC's Big Frames.
Wide Background, followed by Thin Frame Note: creating the frame requires AC's Big Frames.
Shadow Mat, followed by Simple Bevel Note: creating the frame requires AC's Big Frames.
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