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Grandpa’s WW1 Picture

Dear Sisters,

I have had a trial learning how to do matting for pictures. This is the reason for not sending the picture to you all. Finally I’ve had a breakthrough and I think I can do a half decent job. So far I have spent money buying pre-cut mats for $6.00 each. The pre-cut mats are all that I can buy in a retail store. If I buy online I would have to buy larger sheets and I don’t have a straight cutter just the bias cutter. Anyway I need to make these a standard frame size that all of you can easily find. In the case of this picture of Grandpa the frame size will be 16 x 20. Here is a bad cut but it is the opening size I can cut using the same measurements for each side. I could try to take a little more off the top and bottom to get the whole picture but that might mess up the cut. I won’t go into all the reasons that might be a problem. If all of you think this looks good then I will settle for this size opening. Tell me what you honestly think.

 The large picture will show the the bottom and top are jagged edged. That is because my blade was too worn and it didn’t cut all the way through. Please disregard this. I promise not to send you any junk.

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click on the picture to see an 800 dpi width picture.

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2 responses to “Grandpa’s WW1 Picture”

  1. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    Debbie, looks good, but I would like to see more space below Grandpas feet, if you know what I mean. The space above his head is good, could be a tad more, maybe. I know it’s probably a problem … so if it’s too much to consider, it’s nice as is.

    (I am disregarding the wavy edges of top and bottom.)

    I’ll be glad to get a nice size of Grandpa on the wall. Wow! Thank you Debbie!

  2. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    The wavy edges are so because I had to tear out the parts that were not cut all the way through. My problem has not been cutting straight edges; it is about cutting clean corners. The blade was completely worn when I cut this. I didn’t have another mat to cut so I took a picture of this just to show the size. I will try to do two different cuts if you want more vertical room.

    This Friday I will have money so I’ll buy more mats and hopefully be satisfied with the results. When I am done with the mats I will rescan the small picture with another scanner that can scan a higher dpi so the resulting image will be a better quality pint.

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