Category: After printing and mounting

What to do with your prints after you are done, how to mount and choose a mat, making an album or even making a quilt.

Amit x 4 / hand painted photograph on canvas using acrylic paints.
Handcoloring and painting photographs

Hand-coloring your photos not only allows you intimate contact with the photo but also a great deal of creative freedom. Nitsa Malik shows us how.

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Preserving your film photographs

If you want your grandchildren to see your film photos, there are several factors that you must take into consideration to preserve the original state of your pictures. Here are some tips that could help you preserve your film photographs.

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Emulsion transfer – lomographs onto a surface

Do you have tons of Lomographs and a boring home? Are you looking for alternative ways to print? Helen Stead shares her tips on how to print onto ceramic, wood, teacups, your wall.

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Mulberry paper and lomographs

Helen Stead shows us a genius – and surprisingly simple – way to make your Lomographic prints even more beautiful!

Logevity of platina and palladium prints
The longevity of platinum and palladium prints, a synopsis

Marco Boeringa, though not himself a platinum & palladium printer yet, researches the longevity of the print.

Allan Lamb
Archival techniques – comments on the past

Allan Lamb, author of Framing Photography and a certified picture framer reflects on the importance of proper archival techniques.

Framing photographs
Choosing the right mat

Peter Wiklund runs us through the choices we have to make when deciding on a mat.

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How to mount and mat a print for framing

Elizabeth Graves instructs us on how to cut a mat for your prints.

Carol Barton
Making a pop-up cyanotype

A truly fun card making project in cyanotype – an excerpt from Carol Barton’s book The Pocket Paper Engineer.

hand made album
How to make an elegant photo album

Elizabeth Graves instructs us how to make a handmade album – a great place to store all your alt. proc. prints.

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