Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Instructions On Picture Matting & Framing

Exposition and hang works of Craft or family pictures in frames on your walls.


Picture matting is a amiable groove to build a surrounding path for a picture within a frame. The matting and holds the picture in area and keeps it from slipping once you hang it in the frame. You should choose the frame you require to account for the picture you keep and then boast a matting board that is slightly greater than the frame. Always adoption advanced, sharp tools when working with matting for Disinfected, nice-looking cuts.


Instructions


1. Compose the shape of the picture on the Centre of the matting board with a pencil. Daw on the wrongdoing side of the matting board, not the exactly, charming side. Place the glass from the frame you've chosen on top of the matting board so the picture is in the middle of the glass.5. Trace the shape of the glass onto the matting board.



3. Abode the picture on the fault side of the matting board with the right side of the picture facing down. Fix the picture in place with archival tape.


4. Produce the shape ¼ inch smaller all approximately. For instance, for an 8-by-10-inch picture build the tracing 7 ¾ inches by 9 ¾ inches.2. Abbreviate gone the traced shape with a exact sharp hobby cutter.


Then cut out the traced shape from the matting board.


6. Lay the frame on a table with the front side down.


7. Put the glass in the frame and place the matting board on top of it. The picture should be facing down when placed in the frame.


8. Put the back of the frame on top of the matting board and picture and secure it in place with the included frame clips by slipping them in around the inside edge of the frame.