Wedding photo frame

This page opens the studio on the Wedding style from the Occasions family: an ivory band round the photo, a gold double rule near its outside edge, a fine gold hairline where it meets the picture, and a filigree motif in each corner — curling stems, a leaf and a small rosette, mirrored so all four corners match. The bottom edge is 1.6 times the sides and carries a caption, which starts as “Our wedding day” in a serif face; most people replace it with the two names and the date.

The gold is drawn as a gradient running from pale to deep and back, so it reads as foil rather than flat yellow. Corner motif chooses how ornate the corners are, from none through a plain bracket and a flourish to the full filigree. For a gilded wooden-moulding look rather than a printed mat, the gold frame page draws a carved moulding with the same corner motifs.

1. 1Open the photo. It is set in ivory with gold rules and filigree corners.
2. 2Type the names and date under Caption; choose a face.
3. 3Adjust the width, the bottom weight and the corner motif.
4. 4Save at full size for a print or an album page.

• The foil is a drawn gradient. It looks like gold on screen and in a print, but an ordinary printer cannot print metallic ink.
• Long captions need room: the bottom weight control makes the bottom edge deeper.

• Gold photo frameA carved gold, silver, lacquer or wood moulding with mitred corners and corner motifs.
• Photo matA gallery mat with a bevelled cut, weighted bottom, V-groove or double mat, in millimetres.
• Photos in one frameTwo, three or four photos in one mat with bevelled openings, a moulding and a caption.