Image Frame

Image Frame is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software. Image Frame allows you create naturally-look 3D frames. Using Image Frame you can easy personalize your photos. Add frame and text to your pictures. You can apply rectangular and elliptical frame, change frame profile, material, and lightening. You can add text and effects to image as well.

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This help contains the following sections:

Install and uninstall procedures
Using Image Frame
Tools, Sliders and Buttons Descriptions
Tips and Tricks
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Install and uninstall procedures

Run setup file. Installer try to find suitable graphic hosts. Choose one of them from list. If you want to install plug-in in other folder, select item "Other path" and set path. In this case you must set "Plug-ins path" of your graphic host to setup folder.

In order to uninstall plug-in run uninstall.exe or use Add and Remove Programs item in the Control Panel.

Using Image Frame

This plug-ins works under RGB or Grayscale data with 8bits/channel.

Open an image in your graphic editor.
Call the Image Frame plug-in. (For Adobe Photoshop "Filter->Image Skill->Image Frame").
Choose one of "factory" presets and press "Apply".

Select form of frame (rectangular or ellipse).
Select object on the image (if you set "Select" mode, if you set "Full" mode, frame will be bounded by image size.)
Run "Edit profile" dialog.
Create desirable profile and set material properties (see Tools, Sliders and Buttons Descriptions).
Run "Illumination" dialog and set desirable illumination.
Press Apply button (or double-click) in order to create frame around object using the current settings.
Press OK button.

Tool, Sliders and Buttons Descriptions

Zoom tool	Use this tool for zooming. Click to zoom in. Right-click to zoom out.
Pan tool	Click and drag to pan images larger than the windows.
Marquee tool	Use to select image area for frame generation. Drag a shape to match object, then click Apply (or double-click) for frame generation.

Edit Profile Dialog


Frame/Lens	Switch between frame and lens parameters
Profile section	Set frame (lens) profile. Use context menu (mouse right-click).
Apply effect to section	Set active baguette element.
Material	Select predefine material or create new material.
Environment map	Select image for environment map.
Opacity	Set opacity for environment map.
Ornament	Select text or bump map ornament type.
Bump map	Select image for bump map.
Depth	Set depth for bump map.

Illumination Dialog


Enable illumination	Switch on/off illumination rendering.
Reset to default	Reset illumination parameters to default values.
Color, Direction, Elevation	Set color, direction and elevation of the light correspondingly.
Diffuse properties	Set diffuse properties of the frame.
Specular properties	Set specular properties of the frame.

Options Dialog


Auto Apply	If this flag is checked, process will started automatically after any parameter's changes.
Draft	Switch on/off a draft mode (increase render speed with loss of quality).
Frame and Lens	Allows to switch on/off generation of one of components of a portrait frame: frames or lenses.

Tips and Tricks

The following tips will help you get the best results when using Image Frame.

Using "Draft" mode for preview you can increase render speed.
You can apply frame to fully transparent picture and then apply result to other images.
Switch off lens if you do not want geometric distortion effect.