UPDATE: Ralph’s website was taken down. The links in the article no longer live.

Ralph, power user of ImageFramer posted a review, tutorial on how to create custom frames in Photoshop and several frames of his own design, which are wonderful. Actually, ImageFramer 2.2 includes several frames done by Ralph but these are new and not included, for various reasons. Ralph gives you these frames for free, in the hope that more people will contribute their designs.

You can read Ralph’s review of ImageFramer at http://mac.coquinadaily.com/.

The tutorial is at: http://mac.coquinadaily.com/imageframer.shtml (also available in PDF format from the website).

His frames are available for preview and download at: http://mac.coquinadaily.com/imageframerframes.shtml

Some examples of Ralph’s frames images can be seen at http://mac.coquinadaily.com/imageframerexamples.shtml.

My deepest gratitude to Ralph for his contribution and comprehensive tutorial.

Ralph and myself call you to make your own frames and share them with the users. The Apparent Software forum is a good place to start and Ralph has already started a thread on the custom frames of his own design.

ImageFramer 2.2 Release notes:

• Over 30 new frames. Most frames were contributed by existing users.
• A new “Manufacturers” collection, which includes real frames from several manufacturers.
• Resizing frames and mats can now be performed right on the preview screen. For example to resize the frame:
  1. Click somewhere on the frame. The cursor will change to a resize cursor.
  2. Hold mouse pressed and move the mouse towards the center to increase width or outwards to make the frame thinner.
• The same applies to mats. Click and drag on any mat directly on screen.
• ImageFramer now automatically rotates images on load, based on their EXIF orientation tag.