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PS - automatically resize mock up photo frame based on the smart-object artwork size

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I've seen picture frame mockups where the artwork is placed in a smart-layer and, regardless of the image aspect ratio and resolution, the mockup frame resizes perfectly. This is without using automated actions.

 

I've created a mock-up that applies fx to the photo for a drop-shadow float-mount effect. Then a second layer for the mockup frame. Great.

 

On to the tricky bit.... I created a smart-object into which the photo was inserted  and drop-shadows applied to (note: the smart-object is just out of sight above the other 2, and the original one was of course hidden)

 

How can I have the Mount & Frame Layer respond to the aspect ratio and size of the smart-object? It needs to be as simple as possible for others to drop the photo into the smart-object, save, et voila! I'll then add various options for wall backgrounds etc.

 

I've thought of various options but my PS knowledge is very limited. I can only think of using free transform but it's far from ideal.

 

How would you achieve this?

 

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    Correct answer JJMack

    It's exactly as I've said - open the smart object place any aspect ratio image at a resolution of your liking, save, and there it is. Here's a video showing it with a couple of different images...  https://drive.google.com/file/d/12rFDBjPR-mKKluyW62PCXur9kqOSHyAR/view?usp=sharing 


    I think what you are seeing is the weird way Photoshop handles images with transparent boarders.  I went to their site and they have a demo.  The demo PSD of course does not work like you show in your video.   The PSD is not structured like the PSD in you video particularly the smart object.    Looking at what I could of the PSD structure in you video and how you Edited the Object.   It look like they are taking advantage of an odd Photoshop behavior.   Photoshop more or less trims off  transparent] image boarders during Place and Copy Paste   The resulting  layer bounds is that of the image pixels bounds not the filse canvas size that can be a problem if you  counting of the transparent boarder to position the image on the document composite image.   It also created the wrong size object for smart object layer object transform are recorded for the original object size.  Perhaps they figured out to set the Smarts object layers transform to position the object at 100% width and 100% height onto the document canvas.  To me the frames you see  PSD are Layer Styles nothing more. All the Frame layer are copies of the  ARTWORK smart object layer the name of the layers have been changed to Frame Type Names and have a frame layer style added.  The all share the same object.  The Frames  you see are nothing more than layer styles on the ARTWWORK Smart Object layer and the Frame Smart Object layers Mount the Smart object layers that have the share object that you make visible. The PSB object has a Large mostly  transparent canvas.  Their demo psd has a jpeg object that does not support  transparency and if you edit it you can add layers and save because would turn into a save as because of  the layers.  Save will only work when the is only layer if the document was opened from a jpg.  If you make the image you use not a rectangle  the frame should follow suit and not be a rectangle.

    So there are no frame pixels Photoshop generated pixels for layer effects.....

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    How are you 

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    July 8, 2020

    My Batch mockup populating scripts have three resizing options replacing smart object layers content.    Content Aware Scale is not one of them.

    Replacement image need to have Aspect Ratios that are close to the templates image's aspect ratio for good results.  

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    Simple put if the Image need to resize the resize need to be a constrained resize else the image will distort.  If the images aspect ration has to be changes something has to give.  Content Aware Scale will not do a good job in many cases it is not a good general resizing default...

     

    Here is a 2:3 Image Content Aware Scaled to 3:2  what do you think to 16:9 would look like.

     

     

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    You can create a mockup template for your frame using a smart object layer. However there is no need to for your image is not distorted to have some perspective view. Your image is a straight on view.  My batch mockup scripts would have no problem populating the templates smart object layer. Still replacement images should have a wide landscape panorama aspect ratio to work well with your panorama frame.   If you create and photoshop script or action that uses content aware resize it may create acceptable results for some images. Content aware resize will not resize someone's narrow portrait into and acceptable image unless they are going for that house of mirrors effect.

     

    A simple Smart Object Layer template coulf be as simple as this.

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    A simple template for your frame.  Replacement images should have a wide panorama landscape aspect ratio to work well.   Narrow images will lose too much content resizes to fill the aspect ratio image.

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    mwgoAuthor
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    July 8, 2020

    Thanks again for taking time to answer so thoroughly. I get what you're saying with using an image that has a similar or identical aspect ratio to the frame mock-up. However.... the 3rd party licensed mockup template changes the mount and frame to match the smartobject aspect ratio. I've tried many aspect ratios and it fits perfectly without cropping or distorting. I've I give it a square image, it gives me a square frame. If I give it a 3:1 pano, it gives me a 3:1 frame.

     

    I'm a landscape photographer and I've opted to shoot in whichever format best suits the scene in front of me. It could be a 16:9 3:2 3:1 4:3 1:1. Resizing isn't an issue as I can export from Lightroom with the long-edge set to x pixels. The many different aspect ratios are a problem though. 

     

    I'm tempted to create actions for the different aspect ratios, or use the approach I'm currently using but with a Smart Object, mount and frame layers for each aspect ratio. Backgrounds etc can then be common to all aspect ratio sets.

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    July 9, 2020

    It's exactly as I've said - open the smart object place any aspect ratio image at a resolution of your liking, save, and there it is. Here's a video showing it with a couple of different images...  https://drive.google.com/file/d/12rFDBjPR-mKKluyW62PCXur9kqOSHyAR/view?usp=sharing 


    I think what you are seeing is the weird way Photoshop handles images with transparent boarders.  I went to their site and they have a demo.  The demo PSD of course does not work like you show in your video.   The PSD is not structured like the PSD in you video particularly the smart object.    Looking at what I could of the PSD structure in you video and how you Edited the Object.   It look like they are taking advantage of an odd Photoshop behavior.   Photoshop more or less trims off  transparent] image boarders during Place and Copy Paste   The resulting  layer bounds is that of the image pixels bounds not the filse canvas size that can be a problem if you  counting of the transparent boarder to position the image on the document composite image.   It also created the wrong size object for smart object layer object transform are recorded for the original object size.  Perhaps they figured out to set the Smarts object layers transform to position the object at 100% width and 100% height onto the document canvas.  To me the frames you see  PSD are Layer Styles nothing more. All the Frame layer are copies of the  ARTWORK smart object layer the name of the layers have been changed to Frame Type Names and have a frame layer style added.  The all share the same object.  The Frames  you see are nothing more than layer styles on the ARTWWORK Smart Object layer and the Frame Smart Object layers Mount the Smart object layers that have the share object that you make visible. The PSB object has a Large mostly  transparent canvas.  Their demo psd has a jpeg object that does not support  transparency and if you edit it you can add layers and save because would turn into a save as because of  the layers.  Save will only work when the is only layer if the document was opened from a jpg.  If you make the image you use not a rectangle  the frame should follow suit and not be a rectangle.

    So there are no frame pixels Photoshop generated pixels for layer effects.....

    JJMack
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    Smart Object Contents have to be replaced with content the same size.  If you want to replace a smart object layer's image with any image file the may have any size you would need to open the smart object and paste in the and resize the image to fill the smart object canvas. If the Imags'g Aspect ratio does not match the Smart Object Aspect ratio there will be some content lost.  If you fit the Image to the smart object canvas there will be borders no image content loss.  My BatchMockupTemplates.jsx  scripts default is to use replace content to replace images but it has edit options to replace images other ways into mockup templates.

     

     

    You can create template without any smart object layers in fact templates do not even need to have images in them. Here is a video of a template being populated with a script. The template has a Background layers and and overlay layer with its fill set to 0 all that is visible is the layer style generated for the layer content.  The only other content in the template are 5 Alpha channels that Map the location sizes and shape of the 5 images that will be placed in by the script.

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    July 8, 2020

    You could any other type of I believe there is one call something like Frameshop.  It frames your image rather than placing your image into a frame.  The frame is built around your image. Your Image  remains untouched.   I have recorded Actions in the past to frame images. It not hard to build frames.  Photoshop has many tools and you can automate some processing and can assists some processing  with interactive actions and scripts.  Examples 

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