SQOTD May 3rd 2017

[SusieQ]

Do you mat your photos?


I have not always matted them but recently I started to and I will try to always mat them now.

I read an article on paper wishes about matting. Here is part of it.
You can just stick your photos to the background paper, but matting gives your photos a frame—and that frame makes them stand out from the page and makes them look a little more finished. It’s especially important if your background paper is patterned; if you don’t mat your photo, it can get lost in the pattern of the paper.

[Jan Mosier]

I most always add a thin mat to my photos. Quite often I double mat them with a small white border and vellum.

[BarbP]

I almost alwaus mat mine with at least a thin border of white or black; and like Jan, I often double mat. It gives the photos a lot more oomph to have that frame.

[Beth]

I always mat my pics.

[LoriS]

I almost always mat my photos with a white border.

[Wanda]

I go in spells. For a while I will not mat, then I will always mat, then back to never matting. Right nowI am matting!

[leslie]

I go in spells. For a while I will not mat, then I will always mat, then back to never matting. Right nowI am matting!

This is how I do it too.

[Patti]

It depends on the LO and my mood, but most of the time I put a thin one or I may ink the edges of the photos to help pop them...sometimes I do both...sometimes I do nothing.

[tammyfolk]

Just depends on how I'm feeling at the time....typically I do though.

[Cassy]

I actually do both. It depends on the layout. Sometimes, I wish that I had...