Presenting photo's in a proffesional way?

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Hi all, I'm entering a few photographs in to a local exhibition event and would like to get them looking as professional as possible.

(1)I normally stick a very small/thin white border around the image with a larger outer border.

(2)I also really like it when the photo is given a title and is presented in the following manor.

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Could someone give me some advice at all? I will be getting the images printed at photobox at around an A3 size.

Any other styles that look proffesional? What would you do, examples would be really usefull. They wont be framed just mounted. If it was a proper event I would probably get them framed.

Should I be getting my name on them somewhere?
 
n30, "professional" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. My background is in fine art gallery /museum type work. I personally would not actually print any sort of border and/or text on the image itself. I would simply print the image and put my title and signature in pencil on the matte.

- CJ
 
What CJ said really... we do tend to put frames on images sometimes when posting on the web, and i have mixed views about that tbh, I've tended to stop doing it.... mostly. :D The image either works or it doesn't - frame or not?

For exhibition framing though I agree - a nicely cut matte with a chamfered edge and mitered corners is the traditional way, and probably still the best, with any title or other legend on the matte itself.
 
CT said:
What CJ said really... we do tend to put frames on images sometimes when posting on the web, and i have mixed views about that tbh, I've tended to stop doing it.... mostly. :D The image either works or it doesn't - frame or not?

For exhibition framing though I agree - a nicely cut matte with a chamfered edge and mitered corners is the traditional way, and probably still the best, with any title or other legend on the matte itself.
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I have a dislike for the photoshop borders so often seen here. So totally agree with you
 
Assuming you're using Photobox for price over quality, I'd have to also assume you can't bevel cut your own mounts, nor wish to spend a few quid on each too - so I'd go with your #2 version here and simply mount them flush on a board

As for 'Photoshop' borders in general - I don't like to see images without a border of some type, even a thin white/grey/black line as appropriate. For me such simple borders help define the edge of the image and stop the image potentially bleeding out into the viewing area around it, but I also like drop shadow & bevel on some, and I like borders that look like the image is mounted in a frame as a shop-bought print too sometimes. My pet hate on borders is having loads of them and especially in different colours

Yet another 'each to their own' really eh
 
CT said:
What CJ said really... we do tend to put frames on images sometimes when posting on the web, and i have mixed views about that tbh, I've tended to stop doing it.... mostly. :D The image either works or it doesn't - frame or not?

For exhibition framing though I agree - a nicely cut matte with a chamfered edge and mitered corners is the traditional way, and probably still the best, with any title or other legend on the matte itself.
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Do you have any examples of this? Photos of exhibits?
 
Sorry to bump the thread, but this event is coming up soon and just wondered if anyone had any other advice regarding the presentation of the images? Also what size should I print them? I was thinking around A3.
 
16 x 12" mounted at 20 x 16" - bevel cut. That's my standard size and seems to work well.
 
Sorry if i seem a little slow when I ask quite what you mean. I have never mounted an image before so i'm guessing you are saying print the image at 16 x 12" mounted it on something of size 20 x 16" (would that be card or something?) Im also not sure what you mean by a bevel cut? I can only apologise for my incompetence!:thinking:
 
No worries :)

I take a sheet of mount board and cut it to 20x16". I then cut a 16x12" hole in it with a bevel cutter (45 degrees) which leaves a thin white inner border die to the white core that the mount board has.

I then print at slightly bigger than 16x12" so that there's enough overlap to make sticking the photo on the back of the board easier.

If this is going in a frame - that's it done.

If it's being mounted on a wall or passed around at a meeting etc then I back it with another 20x16" board to give it some stiffness and durability.
 
20 X 16 inches was always considered exhibition size for 35mm film prints, so Oy's method seems sound to me.
 
Makes a lot more sense. I guess it's gonna be quite expensive to do that, this isn't a 'real' exhibition as such but thats given me food for thought. What would you do if you were on a tight budget, but still wanted to give the images some extra zest?
 
Matte Bevel Cutter

This is just one example, you can get dearer and cheaper versions - have a Google. You may get one from somewhere like Staples.

Lots of places supply matte framing card, here's one with some good info on doing the job.

CLICKY
 
Ahh, its really making sense now. So is this the sort of stuff im after? Then the bevel cutter leaves a small white margin which is identical pretty much to my idea 1 above.

Thanks for your help

If I was to scale this idea down. What sizes would you recommend? My standard print size is 6x4 so if I wanted to mount on an A3 mount board what size should I aim to print?
 
If I'm posting on teh web I give my photos a 1px black border and sign my name in the corner, I don't want it to detract from the image now.

However, I think if I was to present a photo offline, I would do what CJ does, print it and sign it (one day, haha) - no borders.
 
n30_mkii said:
If I was to scale this idea down. What sizes would you recommend? My standard print size is 6x4 so if I wanted to mount on an A3 mount board what size should I aim to print?
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If you print at A4 - and cut a bit off the edge of your A3 mount board so the border around the A4 is even - that'll look pretty swish :)
 
Yeah in the end i have gone for the following:

Black mount board, with a pre-cut bevel Overall size 14 x 11. inches

the bevel Aperture is 11.5 x 8 inches so I will print at 12x8 and mount accordingly.

Mocked up in Photoshop, and I decided a full A3 sheet with an A4 size print looked to big. So this will be great just needs to be evened up a little.

Thanks
 
Excellent!

I hope the exhibition goes well :)
 
-Oy- said:
Excellent!

I hope the exhibition goes well :)
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Thanks, yeah I hope it goes well too.

I have decided on the photo's to be printed. But have another quick question. Would you print matt or glossy?

Should I get them printed small for a start to see which is best? I also need to do a small 6x4 type run to double check on the colours. To make sure all is well. Any advice appreciated!
 
How do you put a white frame (without photoshop) on the photo to and put your name on the bottom right? Some of you guys have done it ^^
 
n30_mkii said:
Any advice on the Mat or Glossy finish?
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Glossy is ok if they are not going behind glass or in strong light. Otherwise matt or ''semi-gloss'' or ''lustre''

I use this (red one)

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They will be printer at photobox, so It's one or the other. They are not going to have glass covering them. Think I will send for some 6x4's in both and see what I think?
 
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