01-04-2023, 11:41 PM
Thanks Don, Pete, and Rich.
Pete and Rich, I agree with you about frames. A frame and mat should never steal attention from the artwork, and when I take an image to be framed I almost always choose a wide white or off-white mat and a thin quite dark wooden (because metal ones scratch too easily) frame. For posting I used to add a simple dark 1 or 2 pixel around the image. But it seems to me that the stark white background here on FotoFriends often makes posted images (especially dark ones) look bad. So recently I came up with the routine of surrounding my posted images with a thin, usually light colored 2 pixel inner border sampled from the image; then a wider (70 to 90 pixels) outer border also sampled from the image but often tweaked to be less saturated and somewhat grayer. I think this makes the images look better when posted. But it not intended to simulate a mat and frame, and doesn't represent how I would have them matted and framed.
Rich, that's a lot of snow accumulation since your previous shots. I fear that Lorell may be in for some similarly heavy snowfall, and I hope our members in the SE are spared more thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Pete and Rich, I agree with you about frames. A frame and mat should never steal attention from the artwork, and when I take an image to be framed I almost always choose a wide white or off-white mat and a thin quite dark wooden (because metal ones scratch too easily) frame. For posting I used to add a simple dark 1 or 2 pixel around the image. But it seems to me that the stark white background here on FotoFriends often makes posted images (especially dark ones) look bad. So recently I came up with the routine of surrounding my posted images with a thin, usually light colored 2 pixel inner border sampled from the image; then a wider (70 to 90 pixels) outer border also sampled from the image but often tweaked to be less saturated and somewhat grayer. I think this makes the images look better when posted. But it not intended to simulate a mat and frame, and doesn't represent how I would have them matted and framed.
Rich, that's a lot of snow accumulation since your previous shots. I fear that Lorell may be in for some similarly heavy snowfall, and I hope our members in the SE are spared more thunderstorms and tornadoes.
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