Action to create picture frame image from photo of moulding?

[bill t.]

There are zillions of Photoshop actions that can put a computer generated e-frame around an image.  That's not what I want.

Does anybody know an action that can create an image of a four sided picture frame, starting from only an actual photograph of a short section of picture frame moulding?

I've got a piece of cad software that can do it from screen grabs, but for some bone-headed reason it deliberately blurs the image and it never heard of color management.  I can stumble through doing this is PS but somehow I'm making way too much work out of it and would appreciate benefiting from somebody else's ingenuity on this one.

Thanks!

[sniper]

I'd be interested to see this if you get it to work, personally I think it's going to be difficult to do with an action, if you had the complete frame it would be easy enough, but getting it to create the frame may be tricky.  Maybe a script would be easier in the long run? not sure.    
Wayne

[Larry Berman]

Difficulty would be in the program knowing the orientation of the frame sections, matching the corners, and placing the shadows in the correct places to make it look real. There is software available for frame shops to show customers how a chosen frame will look on their artwork, but the frame is already created within the software before the artwork is insertted.

I have a few friends with web sites that have the framing feature you're looking for. Examples:
https://www.scanlan.com/gallery_thumbs.asp?cat_id=14
click on an image to enlarge it and choose the wall color, mat color and frame style and it's assembled in Flash.

http://impressionistic.com/gallery/europe/...aterrasse_c.htm

There are zillions of Photoshop actions that can put a computer generated e-frame around an image.  That's not what I want.

Does anybody know an action that can create an image of a four sided picture frame, starting from only an actual photograph of a short section of picture frame moulding?

I've got a piece of cad software that can do it from screen grabs, but for some bone-headed reason it deliberately blurs the image and it never heard of color management.  I can stumble through doing this is PS but somehow I'm making way too much work out of it and would appreciate benefiting from somebody else's ingenuity on this one.