Photoframed.com introduces a unique, custom frame shop design experience and production service for protecting, conserving and enhancing "keepsake" photographs.
The new website, http://www.photoframed.com, presents two versions of FDI (the Framing Design Interface) for do-it-yourself or template-assisted design in the matting and framing of digital images. With intuitive, mouse-directed commands such as Click, Drag and Drop, users can visualize their images as part of complete frame packages incorporating a wide variety of mat colors, windows (mat openings) and frame mouldings. And, once the user has found his preferred combination of size, colors and styles, he can order it immediately online from PFD, LLC, the developer of FDI and owner of http://www.photoframed.com. The company's production facility in Phoenix, Arizona assures professional mounting, joining and assembly services as well as quality image processing using Epson printers, papers, and inks.
Unlike other online custom framing tools, FDI offers the amateur or professional photographer complete control over how his/her images will be enhanced by creative matting and framing techniques. First, the image (or images, as there is no limit as to the number that can be framed in one piece - great for collages!) can be uploaded directly from a computer or from a flickr account. A cropping tool allows the user to send only the desired area of the image to FDI. It can then be placed anywhere within a user-dimensioned framing area and resized and/or rotated as desired.
Next, in the "Design by Myself" version of FDI, up to three layers of matboards can be specified from a selection of over 100 different colors, textures, and qualities (standard and acid-free). The user has a wide variety of mat openings to choose from: standard shapes (e.g. rectangles, circles, ellipses, stars), polygons, arches, decorative motifs. Like the images themselves, these windows are clicked, dragged and dropped into the framing area, where they can be positioned, rescaled and/or rotated.
Each mat layer is programmed independently of the others, permitting the user to reveal the image itself, or, alternatively, an outlined portion of one of the underlying matboards. A given image, for example, might be placed within a series of non-identical window shapes, or, more traditionally, within concentric shapes (typically rectangles), but with total flexibility as to the offset distance from one mat layer to another. Additional design effects can be attained by revealing mat colors through openings placed next to, or around the image windows in a stencil or "pochoir"-like process.
The "Design with Template" version of FDI simplifies the framing visualization process by providing easy-to-use pre-designed layouts. These include classic presentations of one, two, three or four photos combined with one or two mats, as well as thematic templates which correspond to the subject or occasion of the photo (holidays, sports, weddings, pets, etc.). The user simply places the photo(s) in the pre-positioned and pre-dimensioned window(s), selects the mat colors/textures and then chooses a frame style to complete the package.
For more information, contact James Owen at info(at)photoframed(dot)biz
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