Scalloped frame edge

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March 18, 2025
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How do I make a scallop frame edge so I can drop in an image and it have a scalloped edge. Like the attached but the blue would be the image.

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Colin Flashman

Community Expert

The good folks over at creativepro might have what you're after. Two links in particular - an article by Mike Rankin on the topic; and a script that creates artistic style scalloped edges:

https://creativepro.com/creating-scalloped-edges/
https://creativepro.com/free-script-to-add-an-antique-edge-to-photos/

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

Peter Spier

Community Expert

One way would be to make the frame in Illustrator and copy/paste into InDesign, but you aren't using a wavy stroke, exactly, so I'm not sure it would be faster than just making your series of circles as shown, combining them into a compound path and then using the Pathfinder panel to cut out the rectangular area by placing a rectangle on top.

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