Thursday, October 23, 2008
Photoshop Workbench 148: Digitally Framing Your Work
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Recently, my wife and I made a decision to hang some fresh artwork on the walls of our home. To assist with selecting the right images for each room, I decided to put Photoshop to use. By creating a digital frame around each piece of art, I was able to simulate how the art would appear when hanging on the various colored walls in our home. Even if you don’t have a need for simulating artwork on the walls of your home, if you’ve ever wished for a method for artfully displaying your photographs on a web site, you’re likely to find this Workbench useful.
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Hi Mark,
Great job as always. New site looks great.
I left this comment on the Radiant Vista site and thought I would also post here if you don’t mine. For those running Adobe Lightroom 1.4 and above under Windows (sorry I don’t have a Mac and I’m told it will not load on a Mac), I created a series of digital frame templates for the lightroom print module. You can find these on my site http://www.camerasview.com under the Lr Presets tab. With these templates any image in your catalog maybe viewed framed and in different frame orientation.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you. It was in part due to your selecting one of my images for a workbench that got me into learning more about Photoshop and renewed my photography interest.
Thanks and the best of luck with the new site.
Peter
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi Mark,
I’m glad to see that PW is alive and well.
Your RSS feed doesn’t have the last two workbenches.
Peter
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Mark, I can’t tell you what an inspiration you’ve been for me this past year. You have a wonderful gift for teachering and your training video’s are the absolute best. Thanks for everything.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hi Mark. How do I subscribe in iTunes to your Workbenches?
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 10:10 am
One additional comment, if you make the image layer a smart object, then it is possible to change out the image by replacing the smart object contents.
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 8:15 pm
How can I download this content to view it later on my computer? Help anyone? Thanks
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:02 am
On a PC with Firefox it’s… right click … Save Link as…and you should have a .mov file which you can view with quicktime.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 11:07 am
I would also like to download in iTunes to view later. Also would like to view the archived files since I just found this wonderful site with great teaching.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hi Mark,
Excellent workbench, thanks! I have one comment about using this technique for web-publishing or printing of digitally framed images: since the original image is scaled down, we lose some resolution that could be benefitial for printing, and, due to the necessary interpolation, some sharpness may also be lost and artifacts appear. I know it’s not as bad as it sounds, but why do it if we can avoid it? My technique is to create the solid color backgound layer (“the wall”), and then enlarge the canvas, instead of scaling down the image. The visible result is the same, but the original image stays intact. An additional benefit is that we have a better control of what the final dimensions will be, which can be important if the picture is going to be printed.
What do you think?