Frame, Mattes etc. How do you make yours?

[Engine15]

Many here use frames, watermarks and artist information to enhance or protect their images. I thought maybe folks might share their tips, tricks and procedures. The genesis of this thread is totally self serving, I jumped into a memorial project that needs to be ready for Saturday morning and I need to put a frame around a fallen Marines photo that would read "ONE OF MANY, ONE OF A KIND"

I'm using Lightroom and Elements 2.0, I haven't found a frames function in Lightroom and what I see in Elements doesn't quite apply.
If anyone can help it would be great and maybe this thread can help others be more prepare than me!

Thanks all,

[chaberlack]

If your talking about digital frames I use these actions - http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Actions/Actions.html

[Engine15]

Yes Craig, digital frames would be the words that I couldn't think of!
Thanks,
Bill

[IcecreamLtDan]

Larry Grace had a great thread a while back about making frames for photos.  Let me see if I can dig it up.

EDIT:  Here it is, technically it's about making a drop shadow for you photos, but it may be what you're looking for.  His tutorial is for photoshop, but I use Elements 5 and while some of the steps are different, the results are the same.  I know you could do this in Elements 4 as well, not sure about earlier versions.

http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php/topic,2340.0.html