Six image wrap actions for the action tool of Photoshop®
Shareware actions that will save you hours of manual editing to
create image wraps. Easy, flexible and fast actions, installation
of no plug-in needed, just load the actions in Photoshop.
The Gallery wrap action is the only one that asks for some size computing done
by the user. Instructions are in the action stops. The Gallery Wrap is using actual
image data for the stretcher frame sides, the image is enlarged and will extend
up to the back of the stretcher frame. If that is not possible or not preferred you
can use one of the following wrap choices that are mostly based on copying part
of the original image edges to extend the image character over the edges.
The Plain Wrap has normally white stretcher frame sides but you can add any
color, pattern or even content aware fills for the sides during the action run. For
the last fill type you need at least Photoshop CS 5.
The Mirror Wrap, the Deflection Wrap, the Fast Extrusion Wrap and the Precise
Extrusion Wrap work all in a similar way. Just add the stretcher frame sizes, the
action stops explain which numbers. The wrap area is selected at some point in
the action run so you can blur the sides if desired. You can also stop the action
there and use the area selection for another filter etc and continue the action
after that. Some trials with actions and the action menu will make it easier to
add your own choice of filtering. Limitations on the last four wrap choices.
More features
On all wraps a grey line is added at the boundary of the image wrap, the printed
page and halfway, two times half an inch white in between, so it is easier to
measure at the back of the stretcher frame whether the image is in the center and
whether the tension is equal along the sides. That boundary isn't the ideal extra
canvas you would like to have for applying tension and fixing the canvas with
staples to the frame. It is more a minimum of canvas added to get the largest
prints possible from the fixed widths of canvas rolls and printers. If possible use
more canvas for easier stretching. On the other hand if you like to have less
canvas material at the back and you are able to stretch with just 3/4 of an inch
canvas at the back you could deselect the last two canvas steps in an action. I
would suggest to duplicate the action set then to keep an unchanged one next to
it. Some experience with action editing may be required.
The guide lines are here represented in the cropped larger image with the Fast
Extrusion Wrap, in practice the Fast Extrusion Wrap is more economic in
processing time than the Precise Extrusion Wrap but the canvas edges have to be
folded in a more complicated way to hide the white corners.
An extra image size resampling choice is added at the end of each wrap action
to add a percentage to the size in the direction the canvas is transported on the
printer. This compensates the shrinking of the canvas after printing and
varnishing. The actual percentage to use depends on the canvas quality and
varnishing done. Some RIPs have the percentage already incorporated in the
substrate choices so in that case one should not add the percentage here.
The following picture shows a finished precise extrusion wrap canvas.
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tested on all Photoshop versions up to CS 5.5 and their respective platform
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