On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Ed Keeney <ewkphoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> This year I was thinking of handling the matting and framing myself. > Nothing fancy or out of the ordinary, but possibly working with my > local Blicks to get it together. I am thinking of going 16x20 for the > print with a 2" border for the mat. This would make the frame 20x24. I was thinking about the same lines as Bruce wrote: I might consider a slightly wider mat (border). Especially if you are doing custom-sized mat/frame. On another hand, I was going to suggest that if you are going with "standard" sizes, you can find reasonably priced precut mats at art-supplies stores such as Aaron Brothers (which I like better than Michaels), or your local equivalent store. If you can find one that looks adequate, it would be much cheaper than a custom ordered one, and just a bit more expensive than what you can do yourself (minus all the trouble). What is nice with the precut mats is that you can take your photo to the store, and try to see how it looks with that matt (I sometimes take just a small 4x6 or 5x7 print before I even printed the large one). Also, - sometimes I get the dual mats (two colors) - this is harder to imagine, but easy to see with the precut ones. I also found some good and relatively inexpensive frames at Aaron Brothers. On some rare occasion, I find inexpensive premade frames at TJ Maxx and Marshalls. My biggest problem with the premade frames is that very few exist in 8"x12" size. For that size range, most of them are 8"x10" or 8.5"x11". BTW, yet another source of relatively inexpensive frames (albeit more odd sizes) - is Ikea (if you have one in the vicinity). For Ann: a decade ago, when I lived in Manhattan, I was doing all the printing at Adorama (18th street). A.I. Friedman store was next door. It was (or just seemed to me?) very expensive, but had very nich choice of supplies, including premade mats and frames. I still have one photo in the frame that I bought there. HTH, Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
