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

Samples     FAQ     Requirements Works On Photoshop Elements Ver. 7 or later Actions for other versions of Elements High-resolution Images, for printing

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):

• Plain or 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

Plain or 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 Big Frames, you can add a frame afterward.
Floating Photo Effect If you apply a floating effect using a white background color and print on white paper, 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 See some combinations you can create if you have both AC's Big Mats and AC's Big Frames.