Pics - mounted and framed

dr strangelove

A couple of friends have asked me for prints of my photies, so i was going to give them as (admittedly, quite late) chrimbo presents.

The only thing is i have no idea what size the pictures should be, what kind of paper they shold be printed on, if they should be mounted, and what colour mounting should be, and what size the mounting should be?

Is there any standard size and set up for this kind of thing?

for info these are the three photos in question:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reverend_smarm/729957599/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reverend_smarm/435509802/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reverend_smarm/399803286/

rgiller

Nice pictures dude, especially the first and third! They might look good on canvas, in which case you could get them printed up quite big. There was a big thread on here a few weeks ago about canvas prints posted from the states. I can't remember the website but search for it and it'll come right up I'd say. I got a canvas done as a Christmas present from Reads on Nassau street and it came out great. It was a 6MP photo blown up to 32" x 12" and you'd be hard pushed to find a visible degradation in image quality. Something to look into anyway

Paulw

I'd go for A4 (or 8x10) matte prints. Mounts could all be the same, or different, but pick simple colour mounts - black, white, beige ... soft colours.

Frames would be a matter of choice.

There is no standard as such, it's all personal choice.

dr strangelove

Yeah, my first thought was to got for A4 size, but then i just wondered if that was because i hang around printers a lot.

Cool, i'll go for that. Thanks.

peter1892

8 x 10 inches would be nice, maybe even 8 X 12 inches for the prints. A plain white mount & plain black frame would be my suggestion (16X12 inch mount on a 12 X 8 print) but it's all down to personal choice really.

Dades

Really like pics 1 and 3.

1 might work as a canvas, but 2 & 3 should be framed IMO.