Black & White Photos Matte Color Choices

Video Transcript

"You can pick any kind of art. I have chosen this black and white piece of art that we printed on photo luster paper. It seems to be a very good quality to show your art with. Most of the time in the 20 years that I worked in framing, people bring me there pictures and they want to put a matte around it and he says "I want blue", and I had them say "I want gold", neither which doesn't really do anything for the picture, rust pretty much the same thing. You don't pop the picture and bring it up to the top. In my opinion you should use what's in the picture. I chose this black and white. There are many many colors of white very yellowy white, blue whites, green whites, white whites, whites with specks. Often times it's just to help yourself and it's good to lay a couple of around it just to see what you do like and what you don't like. Lay things around it that you probably wouldn't pick up normally. Sometimes it will surprise you as you can see most of the colors I have laid around here are not doing much for it. So I went back to the white and the black. There are lots of black, also you can go into a different direction you can use a gray, pull out a bluish gray there as I pull these grays out you see all the different colors here. This one right here has a little blue which might give it a little bit character without adding a lot of color to it which tends to help a little bit."