How should I frame and display my photographs

Photographs in Frames

Unfortunately, many unmatted photos have been damaged or permanently stuck to glass when fluid seeped between the glass and photo after the glass had been sprayed with liquid cleaner or beverages were spilled near the frame. Never use spray cleaners around photographs and artwork. Many cleaners are corrosive and cause immediate fading and staining if they, or their vapors, come in contact with the photograph.

Important family photos or photographic artworks should be matted to museum standards using high quality matboard for the window mat and the back board. The matboard should pass the ANSI IT9.16 Photographic Activity Test (PAT). The safest way to attach the photograph to the back board is with paper or plastic photo corners or paper or plastic edge strips. Edge strips are folded pieces of paper or plastic which secure the edge of the photograph to the back board–the edge of the photo is inserted into the fold and then the edge strip is adhered to the back board. Photo corners and edge strips are ideal in situations where the window mat will cover over the edges of the photo and hide the photo corner or edge strip. Photo corners should not be used on unmounted prints larger than 20 x 24 inches, or very fragile photos.

A Quick Overview of Framing

1) Framing Our Loose Photographs: We are no longer framing pictures so you will need to have your loose photograph framed by a local framer.

2) Mounting: No matter how you have your picture framed, it has to be mounted before it can be framed. Smaller pictures can be mounted on foam core and larger pictures should be mounted on 3/16 Gator Board, Rhino Board or Mighty Core, a super strong type of foam core.

3) Framing Using Glass and Mat: The most common way to frame is using a mat to surround the picture and glass to protect both the frame and the picture. Talk to your local framer.

4) Framing Using Lamination: Our preferred way of framing is to laminate the picture with a non-reflective lamination material and then skip the mat and glass. The picture will be better protected than if it is behind glass. This process results in a glare-free, reflection-free picture that is very rich and brilliant.

5) Should You Buy a Plain or Laminated Photo: You can buy our pictures as unlaminated photographs or as laminated photographs.

6) Expense of Lamination and Mounting: Laminating and mounting should not be terribly expensive. The cost to laminated a 24×36 picture should be around $25.00, the cost to mount it should be around $60.00. You definitely don’t want us to mount the picture, especially if it is large, since it will cost just as much to ship a mounted picture as a framed picture and this is usually a bunch.

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