Introduction
The purpose of my frameAndFocus tool is to generate a customizeable Frame Guide at the appropriate resolution that you can then overlay on top of your footage, images, or photographs to assist with framing and/or watermarking your material.
It features a bit of automagical intelligence, but you can also customize your frame guide in meaningful ways.
After you create your frame guide it can be downloaded as a Transparent PNG or simply copy the Share URL if you need to forward it to a Filmmakers, Editors, Post Houses, or VFX Studios, Artists, etc.
The Share URL will contain some relevant information for what is going on inside the frame guide for clearer communication.
Main Frame Resolution
This resolution represents the full frame that you want to create. It is the only entry required to generate a frame guide, everything else is optional.
Define Your Focus Frame
This allows you to define a focused area within your Main Frame. This is useful for Frame Extraction Workflows where you might cropping or windowing to an area of interest within your Main Frame. There are two main methods allowed here.
Pixel Resolution. Use this if you know the exact pixel dimensions you want to extract from the Main Frame. The maximum width and height should be less than your Main Frame Resolution.
Extraction Percentage and Aspect Ratio. If you want to create a Focus Frame by a Percentage or an Aspect Ratio, or even combining the two, this tool has some itelligence to allow for that. If you do not enter a Percentage with the Aspect Ratio, frameAndFocus will always crop the the maximum width and height possible within the Main Frame.
Customizing Guides
There are three main additional framing guides frameAndFocus generates onto your Main Frame or Focus Frame.
Thirds represents the Rule of Thirds. Centers creates vertical and horizontal center lines. And Letterbox refers to the potential negative space that your defined Focus Frame can create.
If you want to disable any of these, simply enter 0 in the opacity field.
Watermarking
This tool is also useful for protecting your images as well as labelling what's going on in frame.
Watermark Text is placeable within any of the nine Thirds Zones when defining the Main Frame or Focused Frame.
Main Text is larger than Sub-Text and Sub-Text is always placed below the Main Text orientation.
Sub-Text is useful for Scene Names, Dates, Shot Notes, etc.
Creating your Guide
As you customize your Frame Guide, everytime you press "Create Frame Guide" frameAndFocus will draw whatever your current settings reflect.
You'll see a random preview image with your Frame Guide overlayed right on top to give you an idea of how it's going to look.
This preview image won't be apart of your downloadable Transparent PNG Frame Guide.
The Framing Guides you generate in frameAndFocus are not watermarked with my information or metadata. You are free to distribute them for use on your projects, across teams, and around the globe. Happy framing! - Phil
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