Creating “instant photo” vintage and other frames in Inkscape

In this post and a couple of subsequent ones I’m looking at how to create frames using Inkscape and GIMP in order to produce vintage / retro and other effects on photos.

Below: creating a frame in Inkscape. This deals with deciding on dimensions, creating the frame and saving it in a suitable format for transparency.

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Images: squared backgrounds (1)

First set of general purpose vector background images with a 2-colour squares theme. Simple in appearance but useful to build on for other work. These are generated in Inkscape and are free under a Creative Commons license.

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vector images by the edge of logic and intuition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License

Images: spots and stripes 1 (vector)

One of the things I had in mind for this site was to be a place to upload some of the graphics I’ve been working on and to make selected images available for free download through a Creative Commons license so that other people could use these as-is or build on them.

Album: Spots and stripes

The link to the complete page above shows all pictures I’ve added to this group – images below are the newly added ones only. Have a look at the link above for the complete group or use the pages list in the sidebar…

spotty 1

spotty 2

spotty 3

stripey 1

stripey 2

squares 1


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vector images by the edge of logic and intuition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.