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Grandpa’s WWI Picture Framed

I bought a frame at Walmart  today thinking that the size and mat could be used for Grandpa’s picture. The total size is 17 x 21. The frame’s opening is 13.5  inches wide by 17.5 inches long with a mat opening of 10.5 inches wide and 13.5 inches long. The frame I got is nice looking. It is a Better Homes and Garden’s frame.

The picture is printed on 11 x 17 photo paper but the actual print is 10 3/4 x 16 4/8. The width of the mat is perfect for the width  but the 13.5  inches length will need to be cut about 2 inches to reveal his shoes and give a little more space above his head. I think I can buy a mat cutter without shelling out a few hundred dollars for a whole kit of tools.

Tell me what you think.

 

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6 responses to “Grandpa’s WWI Picture Framed”

  1. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    Very nice looking, and I agree with what you say about the mat … needs trimmed desperately, IMO as a desktop designer background/personal website designer, etc.

    I like the look of it and it’s potential for future look much better than the one that is hanging on Aunt Barbara’s wall in Greenville, SC. 🙂

    Can you take the whole thing outside where it’s brighter to enable a good photo of it without flash? Just wondering if you can or might be able to do that.

  2. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    I am going to send a copy of the picture to each of you once I figure out how to frame it. The reason I am not sending the pictures now is because I want you guys to be able to hang this in a frame without spending the 134.00 I was quoted for a custom matting and framing job. I think I will be buying a mat cutting kit. I will have to cut about 2 inches, dividting it between the top and bottom. The kit is the logan mat kit that is priced at 119.00. I can buy it a bit cheaper online. I could just buy a cutter for less and use a ruler for a straight edge. Marysue, have you ever done any mat cutting? I am thinking it is not a good project to do a freestyle cutting so I wil get the kit. This pay period my car needs to be fixed for a leaking head gasket and that is taking the money, not to mention taxes too.

  3. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    I just bought the cutter kit from a third tier seller on Amazon.com.

  4. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    No Debbie, I haven’t ever cut mats. I don’t have anything even framed hanging in any method any more! I have blank walls pretty much. It’s very sad.

    Glad to hear you were able to get a mat cutting kit. I think it’s a good thing to do, cut your own mats, it’s doable absolutely in my opinion. It’ll be a $$$$ saver in the long run or sooner than that even, right?

    One reason I don’t have anything up is that frames cost money and mats cost money & enlargements cost money and what I have to frame already is so much and there is so much more I’d like to enlarge & frame and … on and on thus I do nothing at all.

    I’m trying to get my photo shoe-box collection of pictures into photo books so I can see them, organize, eventually scan, digitize, get reprints easily, blah, blah, blah. I also have so many digital pictures since 2005, no more film pictures since July 2005 when I got my Canon Digital Rebel.

    I don’t have a scanner of any sort right now, waiting to get an all-in-one again, I only have an old HP Laserjet. I do have a photo printer, but I don’t like how it works, Epson PhotoMate that I’ve had trouble with time & again and I hate buying the ink/paper packs & having the trouble I do. It’s just that I know I have to print everything at once, use the whole ink cartridge up instead of printing just some and going back some other time. I tend to let it sit for weeks or months, then it’s wasteful and icky prints come out until I clean it too many times and get worse but better pictures … it’s really stupid to just want to print & get good prints whenever I want, huh?

    It’s always been fussy, 1 picture a day is fussy. Need to do 50 a day, & wear it out fast. Then nothing for weeks, then get new pack into it. I think it’s better to retire it and just print via upload to Costco.

    I do want to print some things myself, but not a personal printer for 4×6 dedicated again.

    I’m typing too much here, off subject too many degrees. I do this and usually end up just deleting the whole thing instead of trying to edit it down. I feel like deleting it, but I’ll force myself to unveil my icky writing because I do need to vent my photo woes. If that makes any sense.

  5. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    I don”t have pictures hanging either except for a couple of family pictures that have been up so long nobody notices them but the dust.

    You MUST get a scanner. To enlarge a picture you scan 100% at the highest your scanner can do also considering the dpi you want to print. Then edit your photo then change the resolution to the dpi you want to print WITHOUT resampling. For Grandpa’s WWI picture I scanned it 100% at 1200 dpi, then I changed the resolution to 300 without resampling that made it 4 times the orginal size. I always use a copy of an original scan. If I hook up my old scanner I could scan at 2400 dpi, the newer one I want will scan 6400.
    The only reason to scan the picture at 2400 dpi is to end up with 600 dpi resolution.

    Pictures are so much better enlarged in my opinion.

    You can get a good scanner like the canon V500 for 199. It will scan at 6400 dpi.

    The all-in-ones do not have a good printer or scanner unless you spend alot. I got Becky the Epson Artisan 810 it has a good all around specs for the price.

    My printers are very old. My Canon s750 is garbage. It was in a closet for 5 or more years but I started using it this year and it worked for a couple of months, now it needs a new print head. The printhead is discontinued and it would be fullish to pay money for one if I could find one. My epson 1520 is old but I haven’t used it much and it is a cheap printer for what it does. My huge hp laserjet 5000 still isn’t working but I’m not ready to junk it.

  6. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    The printer we do have is a LaserJet 1020 & it’s really just a good basic printer, I do love what it can do, spit out a nice page fast enough. I don’t miss inkjet, even though I don’t have a color printer.

    I do intend to pay for a very good all-in-one, just to get enough equipment around to at least scan & print 8×10 in as little a footprint as possible. The second thing I do want is a large format printer so I can print 12×12 for scrapbooking, or the occassional large photograph.

    I could get Frank to get me one or the other sooner than later, but not a large printer, a smaller printer and a scanner, so it’s my best bet to get a good all in one and the other printer I want, whichever it ends up being (not totally convinced on which large format to go for, also depends on pricing when ready to buy)

    My main problem is how inkjet printers have worked for me, they seem so dependent on needing to be used very often to make it worth having them (or else they clog up and waste more ink than I’d have used printing alot every day instead) KWIM at all?

    I don’t WANT an ALL-IN-ONE really, but it’s the best alternative in our dinky house with 6 people in it.

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