WE ARE CLOSED TODAY

We are closed today, October 11, 2024, due to weather conditions.

Our current COVID hours are Monday through Friday from 12-5 and Saturday 12-2. Please check back tomorrow for any updates. We hope to be open again as soon as weather conditions improve.

In the meantime you can use our website to:

Stay healthy and hope to see you soon.

WEATHER MESSAGE

Our current hours are Monday through Friday from 11-5 and Saturday 11-3.

If weather conditions are poor such as icy roads, we may have to be closed. Feel free to call us at 512-306-1064 to verify if we are open or closed.

If a person doesn't answer and we don't return the phone call in 30 minutes, it is possible we needed to close because of the weather conditions. Feel free to call back to confirm.

In any case you can use our website to:

Stay healthy and hope to see you soon.

COVID-19 NEWS

We are now open for business. Due to the COVID-19, we are open Monday through Friday from 11-5 and Saturday 11-3. We will keep our hours updated here for subsequent weeks and hope to be fully operational as soon as possible.

Appointments are not required, but feel free to call us at 512-306-1064, text us at 512-920-6094, or email us at dan@austinartframe.com, to let us help with your art, printing, and framing needs.

You can also use our website to:

Stay healthy and hope to see you soon.

FINE ART GALLERY NEWS

The Austin Fine Art Gallery website has been improved in the following ways:

  • Mobile Friendly
  • Easier Menu Navigation
  • Easier Submission of Art
  • Easier Search for Art
  • Search Website by Keywords
  • Optional Artist Size/Price Defaults
  • Visualize and Order Art

Let us know if you are having any issues with the website or if you would like any other improvement. To contact us, simply click below:

GICLEE PRINTING NEWS

The Austin Giclee Printing website has been improved in the following ways:

  • Mobile Friendly
  • Easier Menu Navigation
  • Easier Search for Giclees
  • Search Website by Keywords
  • Giclee Imaging Information
  • Giclee Size and Price Calculators
  • Visualize and Order Your Giclee

Let us know if you are having any issues with the website or if you would like any other improvement. To contact us, simply click below:

CUSTOM FRAMING NEWS

The Austin Custom Framing website has been improved in the following ways:

  • Mobile Friendly
  • Easier Menu Navigation
  • Search for Frames
  • Search Website by Keywords
  • Order Your Jersey Framed
  • Visualize Your Image Framed

Let us know if you are having any issues with the website or if you would like any other improvement. To contact us, simply click below:

PRODUCT HELP

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SUBMIT ART HELP

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WE ARE GLAD TO HELP

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SIZE HELP

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EDGES HELP

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MOUNTING HELP

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FRAME HELP

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MAT HELP

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GLASS/ACRYLIC HELP

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VISUALIZE HELP

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UPLOAD HELP

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FRAME HELP

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HELP FINDING ART

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IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS

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OVERVIEW

Images for web or print usage frequently require adjustments from an upload, scan, or high-res photography to best prepare the images for display. Despite the improvements in image capture technologies there frequently is a need to adjust images brightness, contrast, color, saturation, sharpness, aspect ratio, and resolution for displaying the best possible image.
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Image Brightness Adjustment

Some images are simply too light or dark all throughout the image. Altering the brighness will alter every pixel in the image to make it either lighter or darker.
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Image Contrast Adjustment

Other images are "flat" or "harsh" in appearance. These images can be improved, sometimes dramatically by adjusting contrast. This type of adjustment makes the darker parts of images even darker and lighter parts of images even lighter or just the opposite by muting the darks and lights. The overall effect is to add or reduce "pop" in an image.
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Image Color Adjustment

Particularly with art reproductions colors in the image created from an original don't match the colors in the original artwork. Even the best scanners and cameras don't consistently capture all of the original colors. Sometimes the starting image is a bit too warm or cool. Other times many colors are fairly close except one or two colors which don't match the original well. Some originals have metallic areas such as gold, silver, or copper which aren't true colors and need special care to best approximate their original metallic appearance.
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Image Saturation Adjustment

Saturation is a measure of the amount of color in an image. The color may be accurate, but the saturation isn't correct - the appearance of the color is too pale or too dark. Some scanners and high-res photographic image capture will interpret certain colors with a certain saturation and other colors with a different saturation. Other times the entire image is either unsaturated or over saturated. Older photos and art tends to have less saturated colors so some software which attempts to automatically correct for saturation ends up over saturating the image. If the image capture isn't done with a sufficient amount of light, the resulting image can have unsaturated colors.
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Image Sharpness Adjustment

You may notice that with some images the entire image is in sharp focus. With other images the intent is for some parts of the image to be in focus and other parts to be soft focus. With low-res images in particular that need to be enlarged for printing, care must be taken not to over sharpen or under sharpen or otherwise "pixelation" will occur. If an image is expected to be reproduced on some media such as canvas, sharpening can improve the apperance since the media itself naturally creates a softening effect.
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Image Aspect Ratio Adjustment

The aspect ratio is the width divided by the height. For example an aspect ratio of 1 to 2 means the height is double the width. Another term someimes used interchangeably with aspect ratio is the proportions of the image. Image capture via scanners or cameras can alter the aspect ratio. For example, if there is extreme reflection on an original that is being photographed, tilting the image can help remove the reflection, but then introduces an error in the aspect ratio. For scanners, once the image is cropped digitally, it is also possible to introduce an error in the aspect ratio. To main the retain the correct proportions of the original, the aspect ratio of te image needs to be adjusted to reflect that of the original.
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Image Resolution Adjustment

Image resolution is important for presenting an image that appears to the eye to be visually pleasing. If an image has a resolution that is too low, then the image will appear less sharp and even a bit blurry because there aren't sufficient pixels in the image to represent the image. If the image is overly high resolution, then for images on the web, the image may take too long to load. If any image needs to be enlarged, care needs to be taken to preserve the details of the image by maintaining a sufficiently high resolution. Some images are too low in resolution to enlarge beyond a certain size or otherwise "pixelation" will become very evident.

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