Print output with 3-d borders

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Apr 15, 2008
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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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david johnson
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?

thanks for any comments, advice or links…

Daryl

ok this may seem a silly suggestion, byt why not simply blow up your 10 x 14 to 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 ?? then it would fit without any messing around?
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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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Tacit
Apr 15, 2008
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ok this may seem a silly suggestion, byt why not simply blow up your 10 x 14 to 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 ?? then it would fit without any messing around?

Because if it is not bent 100% perfectly around the frame, you will see a white border around the edge of the print where the image meets the frame.

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Alienjones
Apr 16, 2008
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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? |
| thanks for any comments, advice or links…
|
| Daryl
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|

I frequently paste a "wrap edge" onto photos sent to me for canvas printing. I just use Photoshop to copy and paste a boarder then invert it as I paste it onto an enlarged background. It looks weird flat but works out OK once it’s stretched onto the frame.

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david johnson
Apr 16, 2008
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:03:12 -0400, tacit wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

ok this may seem a silly suggestion, byt why not simply blow up your 10 x 14 to 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 ?? then it would fit without any messing around?

Because if it is not bent 100% perfectly around the frame, you will see a white border around the edge of the print where the image meets the frame.

and you can’t allow for this? say blow it up to 12 x 16? doesnt the canvas attach to the back?

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