>>4538729
I think it is very tasteful. I also think it makes an image feel "complete." That said, I don't think squeezing two photos onto one background works; and the text is superfluous. Don't tell me what to think when I look at your photo. I think if you ditch the top pic and the text you've got a nice image.

It's jpegs larping as matted photos and printed pages

The sign marks the absence of basic reality and the images call into question what the reality is and if it exists

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>>4538730
thank you for the advice. i will need to keep the text because i am using the image to demonstrate a cool algorithm i am making that renders text with a fountain pen ink bleeding effect as well as the paper grain noise algorithm. but here's just the picture without the text and now that i see it, it definitely emphasizes the subject of the photo a lot better.

>>4538732
You should program in a cut bevel around the frame as well. If you're trying to imitate paper frames you might as well. It would be interesting to have different simulated thicknesses as well. 2 ply, 4 ply, and 8 ply matt board.

>>4538729
>like in pic related?
Nice for printed works so it can all fit in a format
>in digital
Shit tier and forced by the powers that homo

>>4538729
Matte around a framed print and arranging photos on a book page is fine if done tastefully. This is not. Adding a platitude definitely does not help. (You do know the tea shrub is not a vine?)

When viewed on a computer screen a lot of unnecessary space is annoying. (This particular photo does not need to fill screen. Also suggest using something that does not look like a bath towel as tablecloth.)

>>4538729
Adding whitespace to isolate your picture when displaying it on a website with a graphic chart you don't control makes a lot of sense to me.

People who object to it by principle are always insufferable posers who think you can only do it if you're doing "true art" i.e a painting in a museum (they also very often don't consider photography art). You can just see the arguments raised by the crowd who think white borders are le bad:

>>4538731
>larping as matted photos
The point of the passepartout is to isolate an image from the surroundings. This is arguably even more necessary when your image is displayed without a frame on a website with a colored background. Only someone who puts printing and framing on a pedestal for no reason would think it is "larping".

>I'm 14 and I know Baudrillard because I've seen Matrix
ok

>>4538734
>The only point of white borders is so the image can fit in all formats
No, it also isolate the picture from the surroundings. See above.

>Everything I dislike is a global level conspiracy
ok schizo

>>4538740
I actually agree with this post though. Here you did not only add a whitespace border. It is heavily textured and colored, and takes more space than the photos themselves. The text feels like the person who wrote it thought it was much more profound than it actually is. The whole thing looks like a menu for a tea salon that's more expensive than it should.

So, whitespace around photos? Makes sense. Surround your photos with the jpeg of an old sheet of paper 3x as large as the picture and with Instagram quotes? Bad taste.

>>4538731
I'm liking the 2026 version of /p/ k3k

>>4538729
people should do what they want, it's art

>>4538760
hard disagree
people should only do what i want

>>4538760
people don't know what they want

>>4538765
No fuck you, you have to do what that guy wants.

>>4538872
>>4538760
>>4538803
Samefag

this has its place
and this is actually a pretty good application of it, though maybe without the text

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>>4538756
if i dont color the border it looks like the frank ocean album cover like in pic related.

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>>4538886
in some cases like in this picrel even, it's like a double-edged sword. there's a lot to unpack in this one image, the kid splashing water in the pond or even the families taking pictures, and the frame makes you see a lot less of that. on the other hand, the photo has too much going on and the frame helps with that. the frame's thickness matters too. so i think no one in this thread has brought this up but it's worth considering that the frame doesn't only change how the picture looks but what kind of picture it is. if there were no frame it would look a lot more narrative instead of how it now looks arranged. it could also just be that the composition is shitty lel.

>>4538890
The picture is too busy and doesnt really have a good anchor. White borders should draw you in, but there's nothing to really be directly drawn into with the pic.

>>4538890
This snapshit shouldn't even be a square

The people are cut off, the trees are cut off, you can't see what's going on or where, there's no atmosphere, it's just a square to be an instagram trendtoraph. It's bad.