First time I made a border with a photograph. Never pretended to know much about framing and mattes, but after seeing Michelle's borders (and others), and how much they contributed to the total effect of the pictures, I had to give it a try. The picture has some PS layers post work, but the greatest effect was the sun on the horizon doing a bang up back-lighting job on this Arkansas cow!

I like it, colour & tone work well with the subject. Beautiful light.

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

What a great shot Marshall......I can almost smell the field of cows! The border is cool.

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I can almost smell the field of cows! What a nice complement! Yes, pretty lighting on this. Good job with the border.

I think the border does a fine job dude, cool cool, and cool

Yours looks like real wood due the grain direction change on the sides, and now mine just looks like texture! I guess you took the top frame and did a 90 degree turn, cut to size and put it on the sides, but man what a difference! I'll remember that. BTW, the "wood" texture was just the "sandstone" effect in PS with a motion blur. I have Bryce, but haven't had the time for it yet.