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To Frame Or Not To Frame Art?
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” G.K. Chesterton. Many private owners and art galleries exhibit their paintings without...
Happy Easter from Apparent Software
ImageFramer has a selection of Easter Frames. Make your holiday photos and greeting cards stand out. Download the best-in-class Mac app for adding photorealistic frames and mats to photos and artwork today.
New Celebration frames in ImageFramer
We've added about 60 new celebration frame designs. They can be found in "Holiday and Celebrations" Collection, in "Celebration" Set. They are part of the Standard frames and are available for free to all the customers. To see the list of all the frames in this set,...
Aspect ratio locking in ImageFramer 3.4
Latest ImageFramer update brings time-saving improvements to some workflows and some user-interface changes. Perhaps the most visible change is that "Watermarks" were renamed to "Overlays". The origin of the name "watermark" was in the initial intended use for these...
Hoarfrost photo with a little ImageFramer touch
This morning's beautiful hoarfrost needed just a little touchup from ImageFramer to add some more of the frosty mood. The frame is called Chaos (can be found in the Artistic collection, Oval set). It's a monochrome frame that was colourized to a purplish colour and...
Merry Christmas and happy holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Apparent Software!
Pluto has been framed
To celebrate New Horizons' #PlutoFlyBy, we framed its best photo of Pluto yet with a simple frame. The selected frame is called Straight from the Artistic collection, Various set. We color-matched it to Pluto's heart and made it a bit darker so it didn't draw the eyes...
Make Gift Photos Unique with ImageFramer
Summer is a busy time for everyone, and for many of us that means lots of birthdays, parties, family get-togethers and the like where gifts are exchanged. One of the most meaningful gifts that you can give to someone is a nicely-framed photo of themselves or their...
Use ImageFramer to Make Still Life Photos Pop
If you're a photographer looking to sell your still life prints online, it can often be difficult for potential customers to picture how your photos will look framed in their homes. Luckily ImageFramer allows you to experiment with different varieties of mats and...
ImageFramer 3.3 Upgrade
We're excited to announce that the latest version of ImageFramer is now available! Here are some of the features included in the ImageFramer 3.3 upgrade: - Allow setting “Real-world” size for the image being framed. With this you can: - ImageFramer displays total...
How to Produce an ImageFramer Design Report
One of the great new features included in ImageFramer 3.3 is the ability to generate PDF reports called Design Reports, which are reports that show all of the specific sizes and style elements that you've added to your photo. By allowing you to adjust the size of your...
How to Frame Animal Prints and Skins
A recent post on The Grumble that caught our attention was "Framing Animal Hides - Help!" In it, OP (the Original Poster) was discussing the best mats and threads to set it on, and which options are available to frame animal prints and skins. Textured photos, pieces...
MC Escher’s Cat Takes a Walk
Everyone is obsessing over this photo of a cat on the stairs, so we decided to add our (framed) take on it! Is it going up or down the stairs? What do you think? Download the best-in-class Mac app for adding photorealistic frames and mats to photos and artwork...
Photo frames for Easter with ImageFramer
For those of you celebrating Easter and taking pictures of your family during the celebrations, ImageFramer has you covered. There's a variety of Easter-themed frames available in ImageFramer's Holidays collection. These can add an even more festive mood to your...
ImageFramer for photographers
Users of ImageFramer come from different professions and include traditional painters, digital artists, custom framers or printers. Photographers benefit from ImageFramer as well, and today we'll see how it can be used to spice up or images and prepare for a...
ImageFramer 3.2 brings lots of improvements
We’re excited to announce the release of ImageFramer version 3.2. The updated version has a lot of changes but most of them are under the hood. User-visible changes include some improvements to the workflow to save you time performing common tasks. We also released...
ImageFramer gains Thanksgiving and Christmas frames
Continuing with the recent addition of Holidays and Celebrations collection, starting with Halloween frames about a month ago, we now added Thanksgiving and Christmas sets. We’ve added 17 frames for Thanksgiving and 44 for Christmas and one bonus frame in “Artistic”...
ImageFramer treats you this Halloween!
Halloween is almost upon us. You’re probably going to take a lot of pictures of you or of your kids in costumes and at parties. Maybe you need to design a pretty but scary invitation and need the final touch. ImageFramer introduces a new “Holidays and Celebrations”...