8×10 Picture Frames – Plus Dog Template

Collage Picture Frames — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:11:59 +0000

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8×10 picture frames can be filled with your own template, here’s a step by step guide on making picture frame templates to fill with your photographs. It will give them the illusion of being behind a mat within a collage picture frame.

Instead of buying a ready made frame with the size of the photo openings already decided for you follow along with this quick tutorial and you will be able to create templates for all your photographs. Allowing you the freedom to pick and choose the size you want to create and the shape of the openings you want.

Step 1 Open up your photo editing software (in this example I use Photoshop but any software that lets uses layers will work.)

Create a new file and choose the size and resolution of the template you want to create, as I want to be able to print this dog photo collage when I have finished I have chosen 300 pixels per inch.

Step 2 Decide the number of openings you want to display in your mat and the size and shape of these openings, add guides by clicking on your horizontal and vertical rulers and dragging them onto your page, which will help when adding your template shapes.

Step 3 Add the shapes you require for your template (these blank shapes will be filled in with your photographs when we finish the template.) Make sure when you create your shapes to do so on separate layers so that when adding photos you can add different ones to each shape.

Step 4 Choose the photographs that you would like to use in your template, place them above the blank shape and then clip to the shape (option/alt key and click between the photo and shape layer.)

Step 5 Remove your guides, add some effects and text and you have your own creation ready to frame.

Dog picture frames are of course very popular with dog owners, but you can also create as many different templates as you can buy picture frames to fill them with:

friend picture frames
baseball picture frames
wedding picture frames
baby picture frames
40th birthday picture frames
Christmas picture frames
butterfly picture frames

These are just a few examples of the many frames you can buy today available both online and off.

Creating templates for your photos gives the control of how you want your photos to look back to you, you decide the size shape and how many photos you want to use in your template, instead of the existing mat making those decisions for you.

Now because the mat you created holds the 8×10 standard sized picture all you have to do is print this and then choose from a wide selection of 8×10 picture frames.

Remember with photo editing software you can crop your photographs to any size that you like, so if you discover lots of perfect dog picture frames at unusual sizes you don’t need to get out the scissors, just crop print and go.

Examples of Dog Picture Frames

If you have any problems following along or need any help please don’t hesitate to leave a comment, and I will give it a go.

Cheers

Sue

P.S.

Here’s a link to another post which you might enjoy, dog picture frames :

Collage Picture Frames » making picture frame

8×10 Picture Frames – Plus Dog Template