Hi, on the page I have made, I used some BV shapes for some framing effects & then just popped the image on top of the shape as you would adding any normal image to a page.
With the shape that is behind the image, you have to play with the shadow & boarders to get the effect you might like. I have removed an image to see what I mean.
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With the reducing of your images, I am assuming the originals are possibly jpg’s ?
These will be easier to reduce than the png’s that are on site at the moment that BV created. The one I copied & put on my page is around 100kb, but should be able to get it down to about 60kb for this type of image. (Assuming the original is ok)
If you need a hand, just pop a post back here.
Its worth thinking about having slightly smaller images on the page with no watermark & a larger popup with a watermark. Can now be done quite easy with the new BV facility's.