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Easy Photo Matting Tip

July 31, 2013

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Here’s an easy tip photo matting tip I want to share.
Easy Faux Matting Tip
As I was working on a photo gallery display, I came upon frames to use and noticed that the frame had a mat to accamodate a 5 x 7 photo. The problem? The photo I had wanted to frame is 4 x 6.

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Adding a black mat that holds a 4 x 6 photo would solve that problem, but I didn’t have one. Here’s what I did instead. I adhered the 4 x 6 photo onto a sheet of black card stock with double-stick tape and then inserted that into my frame behind the original mat.
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Instant black mat! And you can use any color to coordinate with your photo.
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Problem solved, and it has the look of double matting!

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Comments

  1. Leilani says

    August 2, 2013 at 10:56 am

    Thanks for the tip. Getting all my picture frames ready is next on my to-do list and I can never get stuff to fit right!

    Reply
  2. geezee says

    September 5, 2013 at 10:26 am

    I love this idea and it looks so good too. Plus, no added bulk behind the first mat.

    Reply
  3. James Sparks says

    October 4, 2020 at 3:38 am

    You’ve shared very nice photo matting tip here.Thanks

    Reply

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    October 7, 2014 at 9:48 am

    […] your postcards are too small for the frames you want to use, see my post from yesterday about a tip using card stock to create a faux photo […]

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