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"piperut" wrote in message oups.com... Stacey wrote: Sheldon wrote: Very inexpensive, but very nice, personal housewarming gift for anyone. The trick is to use a nice premade frame, not a cheap piece of junk. And using a matt finish paper will help, so the white around the edges of the photo looks more like mattboard and isn't shiny. A great place to pick up cheap frame is the local goodwill type store. most have a huge stock of used frame, many of which are of good quality. I picked up a dozen or so yesterday and spent about $25. -- Stacey A place I recenlty found to mount and frame photos is the local craft store. They have supplies to mount and frame your photos, make your own matte, etc. I only found out about this because I was looking for foam board to mount photos on. The craft store has all the framing supplies for the do-it-yourselfer to matte, mount and frame a photo. This may help if you are attempting to frame odd size prints like 11x17 or 13x19 (Ink Jet Prints). roland Yeah, I should be making my own mattes. |
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"Slack" wrote in message ... Sheldon wrote: I recently had some photos matted and framed for a show, and it ain't cheap. When I wanted to make a gift for someone, without the high price, I simply found a nice frame, printed the photo smaller than the frame, so the excess photo paper around the edges looked like a matt, signed it, and put it into the frame. In other words, you get an 8x10 frame, print the photo about 5x7 in the center of an 8.5x11 sheet, and then trim the sheet to 8x10. Or, get an 8.5 x 11 frame and you won't have to trim anything. Very inexpensive, but very nice, personal housewarming gift for anyone. The trick is to use a nice premade frame, not a cheap piece of junk. And using a matt finish paper will help, so the white around the edges of the photo looks more like mattboard and isn't shiny. Sheldon It's not just a nice housewarming gift. One of my suppliers I deal at work is an avid photographer. He mounted one of his own pictures and custom painted a nice wood frame and gave it to me as a Christmas present. After 8 Christmases, this is still my favorite gift. Hopefully, one day, I'll be proficient enough to do the same. -- Slack Cool, and I'll bet your good enough now. Just concentrate on one subject for awhile. I happen to live in a great location for sunsets, so I now have a pretty large collection, and my skills just get better with a little help from this group. |
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