It is a difficult one. I actually got a message stating my link was
spam so would not go into the board but here it is so it must have
been a blip. So ignore my second post on this matter.

I've been trawling the web and have come up with a few ideas. When I
have something that works easilly I will come back here and post. I
like the effect but as you say, not an easy one to achieve.

On 17 June, 19:30, "Jamie C." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without spending too much time testing...
>
> You might be able to do something like this:
>
> <div style="width: 180px; height:135px;
> background-image:url('./transborder.png')">
> <img src="transparent-border.png" style="width:100%, height:100%;" />
> </div>
>
> All the styles would go in the stylesheet except for possibly the thumbnail
> image so it could be populated dynamically.
>
> Interesting question for sure.
>
> Jamie
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Amanda Obringer
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > might be kinda complicated, but what i you have divs surrounding the image
> > that created little css boxes with transparency?  like:
>
> > <div id="topBorder"></div>
> > <div id="leftBorder"></div>
> > <div id="image"></div>
> > <div id="rightBorder"></div>
> > <div id="bottomBorder"></div>
>
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM, [email protected] <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Looking at the "latest product" images on this.
>
> >>http://magento-themes.joomlart.com/jm_sulfur/
>
> >> I see they have a nice darkened transparrent border. In the case of
> >> this example, they are done by overlaying an image. The problem with
> >> this method is that if you change the size of the image in html, you
> >> also then have to spend time adjusting the overlay.
>
> >> Is there a batter way of creating this effect? One that would scale
> >> better so could be used with different size images?- Hide quoted text -
>
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