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    Default Picture frame design challenge

    Here's a simple design challenge for those that are interested.

    We'd like to create a clipart category of picture frames and cards. The idea is that users can just drop their photos on the frames from the bitmap gallery. These could be be used to make interesting photo album pages. Or some could simulate real picture frames so you can see what your photo would look like on your wall.

    The cards are pretty self-explanatory - modern inkjet printers can produce fantastic quality cards. Combine that with the ability to customize the wording, photos, colors etc and this is a great use of Xara Xtreme.

    To start the ball rolling here are some examples, that took me a few minutes to create. A not very imaginative set I must admit, but I hope people out there can create some better examples. Load the xar file to see what it's all about.

    We have also put a few starter examples into a new clipart gallery section that is now available. Click the 'Get clipart' button in the clipart gallery to see a new Cards and Photo Frames section. These files contain detailed instructions how to use and customize them.

    If you'd like to contribute some designs, post some .xar file examples to this forum (I will assume that by posting them here that you're happy for them to be used by anyone (as this is a public forum) but that we may also use any we like for inclusion in future Xara clipart galleries.

    Oh, and that means if you include any placeholder photos, that you have the rights to these. We (and you) do not want to be distributing photos we do not have the right to. It's preferable that these be low-res JPEGs anyway just in order to keep the download file sizes down.

    We've got some more examples that will appear in this gallery soon, and on the CD version of gallery. But I hope this will inspire some creative new designs from some of the artists in this forum, that can be used by the community.

    Charles
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    I have a number of these.

    The card in the Xar file is upside down for printing on A4 paper on an Inkjet Printer (I use an Epson 950) to give the maximum print area.

    These print to make an A5 card when folded.

    Christine

    (Teckform is my trading name)
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    similar to this
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    Here is a pine bark frame for woodland pictures. - Andrew
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    Or like this...

    Christine
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    Post Re: Picture frame design challenge

    Another Card.

    Printed on A4 to fold to A5.

    Christine

    oops! sorry forgot to turn the picture round....
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    Hi. I have 2 pics to offer.

    Ken
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    Second set of frames.

    Ken
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    its not much
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    Default Re: Picture frame design challenge

    A type of frame I have been making. I made it in pieces so that I could match the matt and frame to the image. I made lots of seamless tiles from butterfly wings for the matt textures. I wanted beveled corners. Rich
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