Comments on: Simple Framing Of Photos In Photoshop

By: Cam Tardi

Cam Tardi — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:25:08 +0000

I’d have to agree with Bright Star and Rosie. I do not like the boarders on a photo online, unless it is in a lightbox style gallery. For images in a blog, I think I would like seeing either a very thin black boarder, or a black line just off the edges.

By: Bright Star (B*)

Bright Star (B*) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:22:36 +0000

No offense to others, but I prefer unframed digital images when viewing them online. I agree with the commenter who said that it distracts from the photo.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:12:05 +0000

I think it depends on where you want to publish the photo and what you want to express with it. In a simple blog I’d prefer the version without border, although sometimes it looks pretty cool.
Such an enhanced picture should be an eye-catcher. You would spoil this effect if you use it too often. In a photo blog perhaps, in a blog with some journalistic aspiration, well…. no. Just occasionally.
Try CSS, you just change your stylesheet once and leave it alone.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:10:42 +0000

Tawcan it is a great little camera. I just bought the remote shutter release for it and was using it for a little bit today.

Derek that’s awesome (saw the post via RSS) I’ll have to try and see what I can do for CSS with varied height images since the widths are all 500px.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:55:47 +0000

Tyler, I just dusted off a post that I had in my draft posts and refined it to accomplish something similar to your frame using a pre-made image and then adding the picture over that.

By: How To Frame Images With CSS » Derek Semmler dot com

How To Frame Images With CSS » Derek Semmler dot com — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:52:45 +0000

[...] seeing that Tyler Ingram recently discussed the idea of creating a simple photo frame in Photoshop, I decided to bring this post to life as it has been sitting in Draft status for quite some [...]

By: Tawcan

Tawcan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:44:00 +0000

First of all, we both have the same camera. Great piece of equipment isn’t it?

I do like the border better. I really should stop being lazy and add them in my pics.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:24:32 +0000

Derek oh that’s a great idea, never though about using CSS to frame the image. I’ll have to look into that.

Rosie I’ll look to see what it may look like with a thinner border.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:11:02 +0000

I’m one that normally prefers a border around the photo when it is posted online, however I normally use some CSS to add a frame around it rather than manipulate the actual image.

If you were to size all of your pictures with a few standard sizes, you could create an empty frame and use that as the background style of a div that holds your image. That could be pretty quick to implement.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:04:31 +0000

I’m not sure what I think of the border. I like it, but at the same time, it’s distracting me from the photo! Maybe a skinnier border would have been less distracting?