Category: Printing & Framing
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Tell It To The Judge: In Defense Of Photographers & Canvas
To be transparent, I must say I’ve developed some theories about the biases of art critics and the judges of art festivals, based mostly on their selections of art to be awarded prizes at these festivals (and maybe my own biases). I’ve noticed certain patterns that I was hesitant to discuss here until I had…
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Thoughts On Mat Layout
The easiest and most common mat layout is one with the widths of all four borders equal. But if you are forcing a picture into a standard-sized frame, that’s not always possible. And then there’s the matter of bottom-weighted mats. Bottom-Weighted Mats Bottom-weighted mats, or the ones with the bottom edge wider than the others,…
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Working With Weird Wood: Preface
A few years ago, Nancy took a photograph of her junior-high-school best friend JoAnne’s father on a tractor at his northern-Florida homestead and gave it to JoAnne. After he died, JoAnne brought the picture back, along with some of the old fence pickets from the property, and asked if we could use them to frame…
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How We Digitally Stretch Our Gallery-Wrap Edges Before Printing
To download a printable version of this article (GalleryStretch.pdf), click here That’s about it. Feel free to leave comments or questions.
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A Solution To Second Mat(h) Problem
Sadly, we had no winners in this contest. Here is a solution to that math problem: There is more than one way to solve this problem, but we will be exploiting three different relationships. First, in preserving the aspect ratio, the length of the image (we’ll call L) is 11/2 times the width (W). .…