A couple projects....

[Randy Parrish, CPF]

Just completed a couple frames, nothing special but I like the choices the client and I came up with.

[Cliff Wilson, MCPF]

Nice Job! I'm liking small liners on oils more and more. My customers seem to be liking the idea too. The wider linen seems to be "out of style," but a small liner in a "non-white" color seems to be just the right touch sometimes. Is the first one a Roma?

[Gregory K. Norris, CPF]

Nicely done, Randy. I like the liner. We had a discussion recently about whether or not they were passe', but used well there is definitely a place for them, and this is a great example. I have sold more in the past 12 months than in the last 12 years, all of them small.

[Randy Parrish, CPF]

My aesthetic is, large frame small liner, small frame large liner. Probably pretty standard I assume. I too have sold more liners in the past year than the past 17 I have been in business for myself.

The first liner is Larson Juhl Flax #423964, the second one with gold lip is from Raphael's, and I had a heck of time finding one that was not discontinued!

[Mary Fender MCPF, GCF]

Looking great!

Liners will always be 'just the thing' for some pieces, in my opinion.

Like your watermark too! In this pinterest world, I think that's a good idea for some projects.

[Randy Parrish, CPF]

Looking great!

Liners will always be 'just the thing' for some pieces, in my opinion.

Like your watermark too! In this pinterest world, I think that's a good idea for some projects.

I have been learning Google's Picassa (http://picasa.google.com/) free photo editor, works a lot like Photoshop and you can add text easily.

[Susan Gittlen MCPF]

Randy,
Lovely designs.
Do you straighten your photos of framed art in Picassa? I have Picassa but give my images to my "sig other" the graphic designer to tweak. I don't know Photoshop and really have too much on my plate to learn it now. I especially like how you put your shop name into the image.
Susan

[Randy Parrish, CPF]

Randy,
Lovely designs.
Do you straighten your photos of framed art in Picassa? I have Picassa but give my images to my "sig other" the graphic designer to tweak. I don't know Photoshop and really have too much on my plate to learn it now. I especially like how you put your shop name into the image.
Susan
Yes, of course you have to take a pretty straight forward pic to begin with but I have about 5 hours of experience in Picassa. The text is something basic that can be done. The touch up tool is a little difficult, I wish that was easier to use. I would like to invest more in photographing my framing, with a area to shoot, lights and stuff. Right now it's all on my Droid phone. I do have a better camera, but my phone is always there.

[Mary Fender MCPF, GCF]

I've been using Picnik for over a year and really like it. The stand alone site will be going away since it is now integrated with Google+.
It is very easy to straighten anything in that.

[Ormond Williams, MCPF]

'Gimp' is a free program that does almost everything that Photoshop does including correction of barrel distortion, pincushion distortion and perspective distortion. There are You-Tube video tutorials that show how to do it.