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Mirrored Edge Automator
Gives a folder of images a mirrored gallery-wrap edge at the exact depth your stretcher bars need. The picture continues around the sides instead of ending in a stretched smear at the corners. One image in, one wrapped canvas out — no splitting.
First 10 exports free on the direct download, full plugin, no card required. Adobe Exchange copies are full price from install.
How do you add a gallery wrap edge in Photoshop?
Mirror the outer band of the image outwards so the canvas has something to wrap around the stretcher bars without losing any of the picture. The wrap depth has to match your bars, usually 25 to 45 mm.
- Pick the folder holding your images.
- Pick an output folder.
- Choose the finished canvas size.
- Set the wrap depth in millimetres, then Run.
How Mirrored Edge Automator works
$10 / month · $50 / year
Mirrored Edge Automator
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Size six presets and custom
Portrait and landscape versions of the common canvas sizes — 60 × 90, 90 × 60, 75 × 100, 100 × 75, 150 × 100 and 36 × 28 cm — plus custom.
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Wrap depth millimetres
Matched to the bar, not guessed. The four depths worth knowing sit under the field: 25 slim lip, 35 classic rebate, 38 flush with a 38 mm bar, 45 bar plus grip.
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Shows the visible face
The wrap comes out of the finished size rather than being added to it, so a 60 × 90 cm canvas at 35 mm shows 53 × 83 cm of image. The panel does that arithmetic in front of you.
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Crop from
Centre, top, bottom, left or right, for when the source is not the shape of the finished canvas.
Five steps, start to finish
Point the plugin at the folder your images are in, point it at where you want the results, pick a size and a wrap depth, and hit Run. Everything after that is the plugin's job.
The same three buttons as every plugin in the suite
Learn one and you have learned the rest. Mirrored Edge Automator is a single panel in Photoshop with folder pickers at the top, settings in the middle, and Scan, Run and Stop at the bottom — runs locally in your own copy of Photoshop, and can skip files already sitting in the output folder.
Who needs a gallery wrap edge?
Anyone whose files end up on stretched canvas. The canvas has to wrap around the stretcher bars, and without a mirrored edge you either lose part of the picture or end up with a white band on the sides.
Canvas print sellers
Every file sent to the printer needs the wrap built in at the depth the bars are cut to.
Print-on-demand suppliers
Different products use different bar depths, so the same artwork is prepared more than once.
Framers and print shops
Customer files arrive flat and need preparing before they go on the stretcher.
Photographers printing their own canvases
The alternative is doing it by hand per image, which is where the mistakes happen.
The rest of the suite
Each plugin is its own subscription, or take all five on the Suite for $30 a month.