Chapter 10. Presenting Your Work

After all the effort you’ve spent to take a great photo and make a beautiful print, you want it to have an immediate impact on the viewer. Regardless of whether it will hang in your home for only your family and friends to see, or whether you’re planning to enter it into a competition or a gallery showing, matted and framed images are far more impressive and durable than bare prints. In this chapter I’ve asked a good friend, nationally known and respected photographer and exhibitor Ellen Anon, to show you how to correctly mount, mat, and frame your print.

Mounting Your Prints

Before you can frame or mat your print, you must mount it to something. Mounting protects your print and makes it more durable by giving ...

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