Patent ID: 8225208

Claim:
A method of framing an object displayed in a presentation application implemented on an electronic device, the method comprising: in response to a user selection, determining a set of graphics to form a frame around at least a portion of the object when the object is displayed on a slide of a slide show presentation, wherein each graphic in the set is associated with a corresponding object edge; displaying the set of graphics, wherein displaying a respective graphic in the set comprises: determining whether to stretch or replicate the respective graphic when a length of the respective graphic is shorter than a length of the corresponding object edge, wherein the determination is based on metadata associated with the respective graphic; stretching the graphic based on the length of the object edge if the metadata indicates that the respective graphic is to be changed in length by stretching; and replicating the graphic based on the length of the object edge if the metadata indicates that the respective graphic is to be changed in length by replication.