Bevel Fill Color: clicking on this pops up a rather onerous dialog that lets you pick a color.If you fill with a color (first three options) the color is modified on each side of the bevel to give the appearance of shading (see Delta Value on Bevel Fill Color). I used the default, which gives a nice off-white. Pattern: Use the current pattern in the GIMP toolbox.BG color: Use the current background color in the GIMP toolbox.FG color: Use the current foreground color in the GIMP toolbox.Color: use the color in Bevel Fill Color.Bevel Fill: what to fill the bevel with.Bevel Width: this is the width of the mat bevel in pixels (closest to the picture).Note that in this example some parameters have been changed from the defaults.): Run the Add Mat script (Script-Fu/Decor/Add Mat).Here’s a run-down of the parameters (you may also want to refer to the resulting image, below right. If downsampling for the web, scale (Image/Scale) the image down to the final size and zoom in to 100% view. Load the image to be matted or framed.I recommend that you run this script as the final step, so do any other edits you want first. Furthermore, the latter two are kind of buggy (no Undo, for example) since they don’t seem to have been maintained for a few years. This script will do everything that Decor/Add Border and Decor/Add Bevel (respectively) can, and a whole lot more. Fire up the GIMP and you should see the operations available as Script-Fu/Decor/Add Mat and Script-Fu/Decor/Add Frame. If you have some other operating system, try looking for a folder named scripts in the folder where you installed the GIMP, and put the script there. For *nix users this is ~/.gimp-2.2/scripts.
#How to make photo frame mats download#
I wonder how you would do that in the GIMP?” One week later here we are… 🙂 The Procedureįirst of all you need to download my mats and frames script: mats-and-frames.scm.
This tutorial was inspired by a thread I read in the Retouching forum on, called “Detailed steps for mattes & frames in PS6”. This tutorial shows you how extreme you can get if you are serious about it! Warning: maximize your browser window now! Wide images ahead… OriginalĪlthough real mats and frames are much preferred, there is the occasional time when you want to add some ornamental embellishment around a photo that will be displayed on a monitor. It stands out a little bit more and it's totally fine to have some photos matted, some not.Creating Virtual Mats and Frames with The GIMP Here we have a page that has one photo matted and one isn't, and so you can kind of see that the photo with the mat becomes more of a focal point on the page. Now, here's a page, that has two mats and the photos are the same size, the mats are the same size, and they kind of form a joint focal point as opposed to one standing out more than the other. Here is another photo that we just matted, so you can see how that's going to really pop when it's on a darker colored background. So, that's my matted photo, and I want to give you just a couple of other thoughts on photo mats. It's going to vary from trimmer to trimmer, so once you get to know what your trimmer does, you'll have a better feel for what size mat you can cut without even thinking, without even doing that little blade trick.
Once you get to know your paper trimmer, you'll know, for example, if the edge of this plastic arm, that's pretty much where you want your photo to be in order for the blade to give you the width of a mat that you want. Again, we're going to look and kind of get a gauge for where that mat will be. That's way too hard, so just put that photo right up against there. I've seen people try to put a photo right in the middle of the page and measure around it. Then, I just slide the blade up, and I've created the mat for one side of the photo, and then I go and do the other side.This way you're only having to cut two sides of the mat. When I lift that up, I can just barely see where the blade nicked that paper and if it's not quite where I want it, I can move just a tiny bit and that nick will not show if I have it in the wrong place. If I'm not sure, here's a kind of a little cheat that I do: I slide my blade up and then I put the arm down and I just very gently give it a little tap. But, you've got an eighth of an inch there and there, and then I'm sliding the paper over until I can see where my blade on my paper trim is going to cut the bottom of my mat at about an eighth of an inch.
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