This class was just pure fun. Marion was the hostess and we had 5 super excited ladies eager to learn something new. All the ladies did an amazing job on that day. They learned French Bevel technique and they did pretty well as it’s not easy to master that technique right away.

But as you will see below, they did an excellent job.

Lorraine's frame #1 from a previous class

Lorraine's frame#2 from a previous class

details of Lorraine's frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lorraine's frame

details of Lorraine's frame

details of Lorraine's frame

Marion's frame (the hostess of the day)

details of Marion's frame

details of Marion's frame

Julie's frame

details of Julie's frame

details of Julie's frame

Chitra's frame

details of Chitra's frame

details of Chitra's frame

I taught a picture matting class at De Anza College and we had a lot of fun with the students.

In class, I often have some students with great sense of humor, Tim Boyd was the one that day. Beside the fact, he’s very funny , he’s also a real talented photographer. He nicely sent me pictures of the frames accomplished in class once he got home.

Thanks Tim for sharing with others your frames. Please note that the matted photographs are copyrighted 2009, Tim Boyd

I was working with a 11 x 17 frame. I opened the photos from the CD in Photoshop and arranged some of them in a pattern around the edges, leaving a space for a larger center photo. After making adjustments for exposure and size, I printed the photos on a 13 x 19 sheet of paper. I glued the print onto a piece of 4-ply mat. I then made a bevel cut in the center for the larger photo. I now had a beveled “mat” of photos. I later realized that I did not allow for separation of the photo-mat from the glass, hence the narrow black beveled mat around the edge. It would probably look better if I had used 8-ply for a deeper bevel leading to the center photo.

I used the “warp” feature in Photoshop to correct the lens distortion in both photos and it seems to do a pretty good job. The concept of gluing a photo, print or design that you designed in Photoshop to a piece mat to use as a mat opens the door to unlimited possibilities (as if just picking a single mat color or paper design wasn’t enough to deal with!). In Photoshop, you can create smooth gradients from one color to another or more, and also add textures. Definitely time to experiment!

Christine attended my French Picture Matting class and did that project, thanks Christine for sharing your frame with us
Carine

We had a great class. Diane one of the students did a little photographic reporting on our class. You can see a disporama by clicking here

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=3yld4cu.3eui9s1f&x=0&y=hux4k4&localeid=en_US

thanks Diane for the pics