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Stand-alone and plug-in software for enhancing digital photos with edge effects, decorative borders, and frames.
How to Frame a Photo Like a Polaroid
Download a ready-to-use Polaroid frame template for quickly adding a Polaroid frame to any photo without having to create the Polaroid frame from scratch. You should be able to use the Polaroid frame template in any photo-editing software with layers capability and support for PSD or PNG file types.
Product Summary: Alien Skin Splat! (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Splat! is a collection of 6 content-powered plug-in filters for creating realisitc frames, textures, edge effects, borders, mosaics, and patterns.
Free Masks for Decorative Photo Frames and Edges
Download over 100 free grayscale masks for adding decorative frames, borders, and edge effects to your photos.
Create a Rope and Leather Picture Frame in Photo-Paint
In this tutorial we'll be adding a frame to a picture using the image sprayer tool and a texture fill in Photo-Paint. I'm using Photo-Paint 9, but the same technique should also work in version 8 and up.
ArtBorders (Win)
"ARTBorders allows you to make your photos look unique by adding beautiful artistic borders and frames to them. The program is extremely easy and convenient to use. Just drag the image you want to make look prettier to the program's window, select a border art you liked, and then print or save the new photo."
Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in or Standalone] This software lets you add interesting edge effects to images.
Border (Mac)
[Standalone] "Border is a simple application for drawing decorative borders and frames. Border includes more than 150 different patterns (so far) which can be adjusted in various ways to fit round anything. Border works with Appleworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, and any graphics program which can accept PDF, PostScript or PICT data. It requires MacOS X v 10.2 or later."
ClassicFrames (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Choose from 60 traditional pictures frames to add to your photos. Create variations by combining frames. Works within any Photoshop-compatible plug-in capable application.
creativepro.com - PhotoFrame Online
[Web-based] Free online service allows members of creativepro.com to add artistic borders and frames to images.
Easy Frame Creator (Win)
"Easy Frame Creator is intended for quick and easy creation of image frames. With help of this program you can also create unique collages."
EasyFrame for Mac OS X
Apply decorative frames and artisitc shapes to your photos. "EasyFrame is fully interactive so you can 'try on' different borders to quickly find what you like. Once you are happy with what you see, you can simply drag the result directly to Mail or other applications." Shareware - US$12
Edge and Frame Galaxy
Two volumes of edge and frame effects for $19.95 each. Demo download includes 10 edges and 3 colored frames, plus thumbnails of all the edges and frames. Includes tutorials for using the effects with most image editing, animation, and video applications.
Extensis PhotoFrame (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Customize and combine any of the included 1000+ edge effects, or use Instant Frame and Instant Edge to design your own frames. $199.95 US. Trial download available.
Fotolab (Win)
"Comes with hundreds of beautifully designed border frames, mounts, templates and backgrounds on one CD to decorate finished photos. It's simple to use interface lets you add these decorative art pieces to your photos with just a few mouse clicks. You can also mix photos and change their background."
FrameFun (Win)
"FrameFun is a simple application to add frames to Bitmap, JPEG or PNG images. You may select an outer frame, a border around the image and a drop shadow for a 3D effect. You can modify the color and width of each Frame, Border and Shadow. You may additionally modify the direction of the drop shadow. A Batch Conversion option allows you to 'frame' several pictures in one go." Freeware
FrameMaster (Win)
[Standalone] From Galleria Software, FrameMaster allows you to embellish photos with frames, edges, and border effects. Contains over 100 ornate frames with more available via the Web. Download available. Personal use license, $17.95 US. Commercial use license, $27.95 US.
FrameShow (Win)
FrameShow lets you frame your digital photos or images, resize your framed digital photos, change the shape and position of your frames, blend your framed images with your desktop, and save, print or e-mail your framed photos.
idFramer (Win)
"Give your photos a pretty frame. Use one of the 40 predefined frames or design your own. Use features to design each layer using textures, masks, transparancy and drop shadows."
Image Framer (Mac)
Mac OS X program to quickly and easily create simple framing and matting to images. Offers fast editing and numerous import and export options.
MagicFrames 3000 (Win/Mac)
"MagicFrames 3000 is a plug-in that enables you to add all kind of frames or borders to your photos. It includes more than 3000 frames and 1200 edges."
PhotoFrame Elements (Win/Mac)
"PhotoFrame Elements is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Elements that makes adding the perfect finishing touch to your digital pictures both easy and fun."
PhotoFrame Pro (Win/Mac)
"When you want to add that extra finishing touch to your favorite digital photos, use what the professionals use - PhotoFrame Pro. It is by far the easiest and most creative way to add unique border and edge effects to your pictures."
Photomatte Lab (Win)
[Standalone] Designed for wedding photographers, this software allows you to add photo-realistic picture frames to digital photos. Choose the color, style and texture. Includes 54 frames and 118 textures. $39.95 US.
Professor Franklin's Instant Photo Effects (Win)
[Standalone] Easy-to-use software for creating professional effects such as artistic edges, lighting effects, frames, and more. $39.99 US.
Simple Stamps (Win)
[Standalone] Quickly and easily add effects to a series of images. Effects include text or logo overlays, watermarking, frames, edges, and borders, transparency, resize, rotate, blur, sharpen, and more. $25 US. 30-day trial available.
Ultra-Edges for Photoshop (Win)
This collection of videos shows you to "create quick and simple edges, advanced edges using shapes, text and Photoshop's own tools and filters, as well as how to use 3rd party plug-ins to create custom one of a kind edges." Includes a selection of premade edges. For Windows only. Available on CD for $25 US.

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