How do I make a partial border around a frame? (Screenshot)

Hi @realm88:

Wouldn't the easiest solution be to add the stroke to the image in Photoshop, as per @James Gifford—NitroPress's very first suggestion, and then place that image into InDesign? Happy to provide more details on the workflow if this works for you.

~Barb

Just to illustrate what I meant about using a background frame and "bending" it to create the desired effect...

Here's a frame laid around the image and then manipulated to pull some segments in (opacity reduced to show position):

And then the graphics frame pushed behind the image (full opacity):

Very elaborate partial frames could be done with this technique, including using angles other than 90 degrees. The image and graphics frame should be grouped when done, of course.

Have you tried the scissor tool?

Hi @realm88 ,

just to explain what happens in your screenshot:

In effect this is open polygon path.

With that InDesign is always cropping the contents, your image, along the shortest straight line between the first and the last path point.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

InDesign does not have "deep" graphics tools that allow the fine control of, say, Illustrator.

One solution would be to create the border in Photoshop, as an integral part of the image.

Another would be to use lines to draw only the parts of the frame you want to be visible, then group it with the image frame.

Another would be to lay a frame UNDER the image, apply a centered or outside stroke, and then mask parts of it with white rectangles. (Or, "bend in" parts of the frame so they leave a corner where you want an end point to show.) When grouped, it would give the effect you're looking for.

But there's no truly simple way to do it with ID graphics tools.

ETA: And yeah, the pen and erase tools are to manage shapes of frames, not things like border lines.