Photo Frame - Photo Editor

Picture Frame - Image Editor is an impressive collage maker and photo editing application featuring a user-friendly interface with a plethora of stunning photo frames. Simply select your favorite images and effortlessly transform them into captivating artwork using various backgrounds, stickers, filters, templates, and fonts.

Key Features:

- Over 100 free picture frames to choose from

- User-friendly yet powerful photo editing tools

- Extensive collection of photo filters, stickers, text fonts, and frames

- Choose from 200+ frame layouts or grids

- Add stickers, emojis, texts, borders, and frames to photos

- Crop and edit photos with filters and text overlays

- Utilize 100+ art typefaces for drawing and adding text to photos

- Apply professional blur effects to backgrounds

- Save high-resolution photos and share them on social media platforms

- Wide selection of backgrounds and stickers available

📷 Photo Frame

- Access 500+ templates, including themed photo frames like Family, Birthday, Love, Trees, Flowers, Friendship, Halloween, Christmas, and Seasons

- Constantly updated free photo frames following current trends

- Enjoy unique and stunning Tree-themed photo frames

📷 Photo Editor

- Crop, rotate, resize, mirror, blur, cutout, flip images, and zoom in/out

- Adjust various image parameters such as brightness, contrast, highlights, and more

- Choose from different ratios like 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, etc.

- Insta square feature for Instagram without cropping

- Apply professional effects and filters to pictures

📷 Photo Collage

- Customizable grid sizes, frames, and backgrounds for creating beautiful collages

- Instantly create collages with multiple layouts

- Combine up to 15 photos in one collage

- Edit the collage ratio and borders

- Design trendy photo collages by arranging your favorite pictures creatively

- Simple drag-and-drop functionality for adjusting image sizes and positions.

Why Use Framing in Your Photography?

We often hear about how a good painting or photograph leads the eye, and there’s something about a subframe that gives a feeling of satisfaction and balance to a photo.

Using elements of your photography composition to create a frame around the subject helps to direct the viewer to the most important part of the image. It also prevents other elements from competing for the viewer’s attention.

Framing is often very simple in how it works – isolating what’s important and allowing the viewer to understand where their eye should fall, and which other parts of the image are merely there to compliment the main subject.

It should draw a viewer into the photograph and lead their gaze, working as an aid to understanding what is being presented.

Framing shouldn’t necessarily be forced, however. Most of the time, the elements that you use to construct your frame should work within the photo itself and feel natural to the viewer.

In this way, framing can help to give context to a photograph, placing your subject in a situation that makes the viewer understand, or perhaps be intrigued by the image.

On the other hand, framing doesn’t always have to give an explanation; sometimes it can create a sense of mystery, grabbing your viewer’s attention.

In a busy scene, framing can help to hide elements that would otherwise distract the viewer and make the photo too busy. If you find that a scene you’re trying to photograph just isn’t working, try removing non-essential parts.

If you can’t crop something out, you might be able to find a way to frame your subject so that the distraction is simply hidden instead.

Framing often works well alongside the concept of minimalism, reducing the number of elements within a photograph and thereby increasing the impact of what’s being portrayed.

Framing can also add a pleasing sense of depth to a photograph, adding a foreground or background to a scene, giving a two-dimensional image a three-dimensional feel. This helps to make a viewer feel like they can almost explore a photograph physically, rather than just see it on a screen or page.

Framing is often most effective when paired with some basic principles of composition, such as the rule of thirds or the golden ratio.

How Do You Frame a Photography Shot? 11 Ideas

1. Use Negative Space

Creating a frame for a subject is often as simple as trying to find something clean against which to place them.

If your subject sits freely in space — i.e., against an area of the photo that is clear and uncluttered — it tends to have more impact. For example, a portrait tends to be more striking if there are no branches or power cables sticking out of people’s heads.

You could describe it as finding or creating an area of negative space and punctuating that space with what’s most important. This is a simple yet effective way to frame the photograph.

It doesn’t always have to be sky; it can be plain sections of wall, or even using a shallow depth of field to turn the background into an area that’s blurry and smooth.

2. Use People

If you’re photographing a gathering of a people, there will often be the opportunity to pick out a subject by shooting in between people’s bodies and using them almost like bookends.

Weddings are an ideal time to use this technique, especially as people’s faces can be full of emotions, and the clothing or positioning of the people you’re using as bookends can give your subject context.

You can also use a shallow depth of field to push the viewer’s eye towards your subject, rendering your subject sharp and making your bookends nice and blurry.

3. Use Natural Elements

Nature can present with plenty of opportunities to create frames and it’s useful to start training your eye to identify them.

Tree branches can be used to make frames for a portrait, or a blank section of mountainside might be the perfect background against which to place an isolated tree.

Whatever the subject, it’s likely that you’ll have to move yourself in order to create the frame, whether that’s climbing a tree, a stroll on the beach, or trekking up a mountain. Don’t be afraid to explore.

4. Use Architectural Features

Just as nature presents us with opportunities to create frames, so can architecture, whether it’s windows, railings, blank sections of wall, or pillars.

Get creative: find innovative vantage points in order to place your subject inside architectural elements, or take advantage of clean walls and strong leading lines.

Just as you’ll need to move around to find natural features to create frames, the same goes for architecture.

Challenge yourself to find unusual vantage points from which to shoot, and experiment with different focal lengths.

5. Use Colour

Framing doesn’t always have to involve geometric shapes; sometimes you can use contrasting colours to isolate your subject.

It tends to work best if the part of the image that’s creating the frame is one colour — perhaps a block of green leaves. It doesn’t matter if the frame is busy, as long as the colour is quite uniform.

This method of framing can be particularly striking if you have two colours that are on opposite sides of the colour wheel.

6. Use the Subject’s Own Body

Sometimes part of your subject’s own body can be used as a frame, whether it’s having them reach towards the camera with outstretched arms, or using parts of their own body to frame their face.

Check out our guides to female poses and male poses for more ideas.

7. Use Light and Shadow

This is a common technique in street photography, but there are lots of other situations where having a brightly lit subject framed by a dark shadow can make for a strong composition.

It’s worth remembering that your camera doesn’t have the same dynamic range as the human eye, so what might look like a messy shadow to you might actually be a section of complete blackness that makes the brightly lit subject in the foreground jump out.

Of course, if it’s not quite dark enough to achieve this, you can always make that shadow darker when you come to edit the photograph later.

8. Use Props

If you’re struggling to find a composition that works, there’s no reason not to cheat: either find something that’s already to hand from what’s in front of you, or simply grab yourself a couple of props.

9. Use Out of Focus Foreground Elements

This is a classic technique for shooting in really boring locations: get down low and use blades of grass to frame your subject.

You can use a shallow depth of field to make the foreground out of focus and keep your subject sharp, increasing the effect.

This can be an effective way of tidying up a shot, clearing up clutter and removing any distracting elements. If it’s messy, hide it behind the foreground.

In addition, getting low to the ground often has the advantage of placing your subject against a clean section of sky, and removing background elements that might otherwise be a distraction.

10. Create a Sense of Depth

Making your two-dimensional image feel more like a three-dimensional reality can be achieved by creating a sense of depth in your images, and can also be used as a way of framing your subject to create striking results.

Search for features that you can include in the foreground and emphasise the effect by using differential focus — i.e., blurred foreground, sharp subject, blurred background — to give even more depth.

This can make your viewer feel like they can step right into the scene that you’re presenting, making it more engaging.

11. Break the Rules by Breaking the Frame

Understanding how framing can work in order to learn how to create stronger compositions can be useful, but breaking these rules — and the frame — can add drama to an image.

Your subject doesn’t always need to be perfectly contained by the frame that you’ve created, and sometimes having the subject escaping from one and into another can give a dynamic feeling to an image.

Photography Framing FAQs

What are framing techniques?

Framing techniques are different ways of using the elements in a scene to isolate and draw attention to your subject. By using framing in your composition, you can lead the viewer’s eye, create a sense of balance, and make your photos more captivating.

What are some ways of framing within a photograph?

You can get as creative as you like, but a few ways of framing a photograph are to use negative space, use natural elements or architectural features, use colour, light, shadow, or props. See above for examples.

How do you frame within a frame?

To create a more obvious “frame within a frame” effect, look for elements that can act as a frame for your subject, and include that frame in your image. For example, you might shoot through a hole in a wall, a window or doorway, a gap in some tree branches, etc., with your subject positioned on the other side.

What is fill the frame?

Filling the frame is simply composing your photograph so that your subject fills a large portion of the image. When you fill the frame, little to no background elements will be present.