How do you mount your photos to board?

How do you mount your photos to board?

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Dry mount, since my mother has a frame shop and the equipment needed it's a no-brainer.

Archival tape and T-Hinge the top. Use archival paper to make photo corners to secure the bottom corners and use the archival tape over that. Keeps the print from shifting while keeping it flat but at the same time allows the print to expand or contract depending upon the humidity and temp.

The T-hinge method is great. Hadn't thought about the tissue on the bottom corners - cool idea!

I voted archival tape. Learned how to do it in mat and frame class. I don't like adhesive spray stuff, but I will use it if I have to.

I have been using tape and I love the idea of floating corners and will probably start doing that, thanks to the Marine. I voted adhesive, because I was going to give it a try and start doing that for a while. I worry about very large prints (>11x14) not lying flat or kinking and I was going to try some not matted presentation techniques.

I farm mine out and they do a great job. They put a wrinkle in a 16X20 once and paid for me to have it done again.

This is something, for me, to leave to the professionals.

I find dry mount is the best method, providing you have the equipment to do it. Otherwise archival tape.

Here is a website I put together with info about various mounting techniques:

http://www.framedestin​ation.com/picture_fram​e_info.html

Personally, I t-hinge, it is cheap, easy, and archival.

Cheers,
Mark

I don't trust myself with something like this so I let the lab do it.

liza wrote in post #2257804
I don't trust myself with something like this so I let the lab do it.

If you going to use some form of adhesive, it is best to have a pro dry mount it. If not done correctly with a press it is likely to bubble over time. Archival t-hinging however is very easy and requires no special equipment.

Cheers,
Mark
Frame Destination, Inc.
http://www.framedestin​ation.com/