How To Mat Photos For Sale

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How to mat photos for sale.

Add elegance and protection when framing photos or artwork by adding a frame mat in a complementary color. In the photography world that means sell your prints matted. Look for acid free or archival grade mats. Choose one of our acid free pre cut mats or customize an uncut matboard.

Buy a 4 ply piece of mat board for your standard size photos. Placing a mat with a viewing window cut out of it is the oldest solution to this problem. 8 10 11 14 16 20 18 24 etc as it will make it much easier for your customers when they look for a frame to match the matboard. I was selling my pictures without mats and people thought 15 was an exorbitant amount for a picture.

If you are working with a standard sized image pre cut mats are available to simplify your life. Getting work custom framed can be very expensive. Economy beveled mat. Be aware that often a mat window will be slightly smaller than the size of the print that it is designed to display.

Put a frame on it if you are in a gallery. If you are selling your art work with just the mat do your best to fit the outer size of the mat to a standard picture frame size ie. To prepare photographic prints for sale by using the framing4yourself show kit for prints place the window mat face down and lay the print in the window. Visit your local craft or framing store to get all the supplies you need.

If the work has to be framed then you must decide if that is something you can afford. Golden state art pack of 10 white pre cut 16x20 picture mat for 11x14 photo with white core bevel cut mattes sets. This short tutorial demonstrates one of the methods i use to mat my photos. Use 8 ply for photos that are wider than 30 inches 76 cm.

But what a lot of artists do is make all their work the same size or use the same size frames and just alter the mat sizes according to the images then go to somewhere like ikea and buy cheaper frames. Mat board center pack of 10 11x14 mixed colors white core picture mats for 8x10 photos. We show you an easy and economic way of matting your artwork.