Creating "bendable" borders for print output…

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Daryl
Apr 15, 2008
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Hello,

I have a peculiar problem in preparing large TIFF images from a 12-Meg camera for printing. (@ 300dpi, about 10" x 14" output)

My client is having his images printed on a type of canvas-like material, and needs an extra 3/4" border around the print for "bending" around a wooden frame. His printer passed on vague instructions on copying & pasting 3/4" strips from the edges of the image, then ‘mirroring’ them (flipping them) in such a way that they form kind-of a border that’s continuous with the print in design perspective … in a sense, tricking the eyes that the image "continues" when the canvas is bent around the outside of the wooden frame.

Does anyone know of this technique, or have any experience with creating border-space that "wraps" around a 3-d frame?

thanks for any comments, advice or links…

Daryl
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Vic Dura
Apr 15, 2008
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:22:57 GMT, "Daryl" wrote Re Creating "bendable" borders for print output…:

Hello,

I have a peculiar problem in preparing large TIFF images from a 12-Meg camera for printing. (@ 300dpi, about 10" x 14" output)
My client is having his images printed on a type of canvas-like material, and needs an extra 3/4" border around the print for "bending" around a wooden frame. His printer passed on vague instructions on copying & pasting 3/4" strips from the edges of the image, then ‘mirroring’ them (flipping them) in such a way that they form kind-of a border that’s continuous with the print in design perspective … in a sense, tricking the eyes that the image "continues" when the canvas is bent around the outside of the wooden frame.

Does anyone know of this technique, or have any experience with creating border-space that "wraps" around a 3-d frame?

thanks for any comments, advice or links…

Daryl

This might help.
http://www.ehow.com/how_6395_add-border-picture.html
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Mike Russell
Apr 15, 2008
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:39:46 GMT, Daryl wrote:

I have a peculiar problem in preparing large TIFF images from a 12-Meg camera for printing. (@ 300dpi, about 10" x 14" output)
My client is having his images printed on a type of canvas-like material, and needs an extra 3/4" border around the print for "bending" around a wooden frame. His printer passed on vague instructions on copying & pasting 3/4" strips from the edges of the image, then ‘mirroring’ them (flipping them) in such a way that they form kind-of a border that’s continuous with the print in design perspective … in a sense, tricking the eyes that the image "continues" when the canvas is bent around the outside of the wooden frame.

Does anyone know of this technique, or have any experience with creating border-space that "wraps" around a 3-d frame?

Hi Daryl,

An interesting question.

Here’s a video:
http://www.curvemeister.com/video/greg/2008-04-15_0845.swf

For those who prefer to read:
Bump the canvas size by 1.5 inches to create a .75 in white border. Then drag guides to the edges of the image – zoom in and use the move tool to get the guides pixel accurate. Now it’s a matter of selecting, copying (ctrl-alt drag helps) each of the strips and using Edit>Transform>Flip to get the edge strips the way you want. The selections will snap to the guides and save considerable fiddling.

Save this in an action if you’ll be doing more than one. If you will be dealing with different sizes of images, you’ll need an action for each size.

BTW – crossposting a message like this is better than duplicating it across two groups.
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