Mounting Photos on Foam Boards It’s easy to capture beautiful sights and scenes into your camera, but how you display them will determine their final look on the wall in your living room. Mounting and framing are the best techniques to make your photo look beautiful and to ensure that it stays that way for years. Following the right mounting techniques can help save your art from acidic conditions and any dampness within the wall on which the picture is hung. Knowing the right mounting techniques and understanding their importance will definitely give more options when you want to mount your work for display. Usually, we use wood, metal, and other materials for displaying pictures. But mounting photos on foam boards is a good way to grab the attention of viewers. A Foam board is a stiff and lightweight material that can be used for mounting and displaying photographs and prints.
Mounting Instructions for Self-Adhesive Foam Board
1) If the size of the image you wish to mount is optimum, you may be able to accomplish the mount by yourself.
2) To start, peel back an inch or two of the liner sheet that are pasted on the board. This will reveal to you the adhesive side.
3) After you have opened up the adhesive side, carefully align the top and sides of the print to the board.
4) Now place the print down from the top edge. As you do that, keep applying pressure down on the print all the while pushing out the air bubbles to the sides and bottom.
Once you have the initial one or two inches down, slowly peel back some more release liner and apply the print in the same fashion. Also, keep applying pressure and move out the air as you did earlier. Continue this all the way down through the sheet. If you have a small bubble anywhere when you are done, just use a pin and poke a hole in the center of it. This should get rid of any small bubbles.
If you are working on a large print, it would help to have someone else around to hold the print above the sheet as you peel back the release liner and apply the print. Doing that would help avoid the print hitting the adhesive before you are ready to apply it.
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