Photoshop Frames and Mats for Printing AC's Big Frames by Adrienne Cleveland

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

This Photoshop frame action set contains actions which can create a variety of virtual frames and mats for photographs you intend to print, in colors of your choosing:

• A Simple Border with a Thin Inner Line
• A Double Mat with Drop Shadow, with or without texture.
• A Tiny Frame
• A Classic Frame with optional Background
• Chiseled Mat, with or without frame
• A Double Chiseled Mat (with or without texture)
• A Simple Beveled Frame
• A background and Beveled Frame, with or without texture
• Golden or Silvery Beveled Frames
• Thin beveled Frames
• Thin Frames with Medium or Wide Backgrounds
• A Floating Photo effect
• A Floating Frame effect
• Inner Accent (Medium)
• Inner Accent (Small), followed by Simple Medium-Wide Border
• Self-Mat with Inner Accent
• Blurred Extension Frame
• *** New! *** U-Crop Mats
• A Textured, Beveled Frame, with or without background or mat
• *** Flexibility *** Any combination you like. All of the mat and frame actions can be run separately.

Notes:

1. 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, and then put a thin frame around it.
   
   
2. The frame actions work best on high-resolution images. However, after you frame a high-resolution image, you can then resize it for the web. Bear in mind, though, that framing a large image takes longer than framing a web-sized image.
   
   If you want to frame images that are already web-sized, check out AC's Flexible Frames.
   
   

A Few Samples

A Simple Wide Border
ShadowMat A double mat, with shadow and optional texture.
Floating Photo, Wide Background, followed by Tiny Frame
A Classic Frame with extra-wide background
Framed Chiseled Mat
Double Chiseled Mat, with texture If you wish, you can run a frame action afterward.
Golden Bevel
Background and Beveled Frame
Thin Frame
Thin Golden Frame with Wide Background
Floating Photo Effect
Floating Frame Effect
Inner Accent (Medium)
Inner Accent (Small), followed by Simple Medium-Wide Border Note: The embossed signature is NOT part of the framing action. However, it is available in our Watermark Signature actions.
Self-Mat with Inner Accent (Medium) 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.
Blurred Extension Frame Draws a fine line around your image, using the background color, and then creates a frame outside your image, using colors from the image itself.
U-Crop Mats Mats where you specify the exact width of the mats, for cases where you need the final matted image to be a particular size.
Background with Textured Beveled Frame
Shadow Mat, followed by Simple Bevel
Simple Medium Border, followed by Simple Medium-Wide Border
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