Frame Your Images for Maximum Impact
Throughout history, great works of art have been showcased in frames and your best images deserve no less. It’s amazing how they’ll stand out and gain stature; a framed photograph seems to announce: “Look at me, I’m worthy of viewing!”
But how do you choose the right frame? For years I’ve put off framing my best images for two reasons. First, I wasn’t up to learning how to frame from scratch; for example, making my own frames which would involve sawing wood or metal, sizing paper mats, cutting glass or acrylic and buying all the tools required for it.
Even more daunting was that I just couldn’t visualize what frames were right for which images. Did I want a thick or thin frame? One of wood or metal? How wide should the mat be? Or should there be a mat at all? What about using colored mats or ones that had texture? See what I mean? It was all so over- whelming that I did nothing.
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