I've got a glossy photo to frame, 30cm x 40 cm. It's been tightly rolled up so I'm wondering about flattening it out a bit before framing .Any suggestions?
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Rolled up photo
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Re: Rolled up photo
Might be worth contacting any photo processing labs in your area to see if they have dry mounting facilities.
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Dry mounting is a good idea, but you can use self adhesive boards instead although I would always use the former.
To flatten curled up prints I place a weight (a box of underpinner wedges) on each corner for a couple of days or more.
To flatten curled up prints I place a weight (a box of underpinner wedges) on each corner for a couple of days or more.
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Re: Rolled up photo
Every order we take is placed flat in folders we make, one of the few advantages of having a 2 week lead time is when they are removed from the folders they are flat.
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Re: Rolled up photo
I like the idea of putting the photo in a folder - what material would you put next to the photo surface? Mountcard? Tissue? Something else?
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Re: Rolled up photo
Some have mount board, some have acid free tissue, some are made from the fluted plastic stuff I forget the name of, depends what the Item is. we also make boxs for any stretched canvas we get in, the order form/ticket is then stuck to the front, we have 6 shelves (made from fire doors so quite big) named Monday to Saturday, we then know which shelf it's on from the date on the ticket.