Digital BW, The Print

Steve,
As someone else said, everyone has a different style for these. Here's a
somewhat convoluted method I came up with out of a similar desire to not
spend $200 for canned-looking frames. It may at least give you a starting
point:

1. add black border to pic if I couldn't include some in scan
2. expand canvas size ~1/4" all sides
3. marquee select original pic, including black border
4. create border selection of about 50 pixels
5. palette knife filter (~10/2/10 seems to work okay) to rough up edges
6. gaussian blur that
7. plastic wrap filter (~18/5/8 or 20/12/3) to get "flare"

These work well enough and are independent of image size (vs. flatbed
scanning an existing sloppy border), but obviously not the fastest!

HTH,
Doug

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:22:41 -0000
> From: "scrber" <stephen.bate@...>
> Subject: sloppy borders...
> 
> Hi Folks, i want to add some 'sloppy borders' (I think that is the
> correct term, I mean a kind of rough medium/large format negative
> edge) to some black and white wedding album prints.  I have no idea
> where I could get hold of such a frame (especially as I have never
> shot medium format....I am using an S2)
> Can anyone point me in the right direction (or would be good enough
> to e-mail me a file.....)
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Steve