eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.

How to Clean Glass & Staple Picture to Frame

Video Preview

Summary: How to clean your glass and make sure it's dry and then close your framed black and white photo with stapling; learn this and more in this free online photography video about framing taught by expert Minnie Bell.

Views:
1,276
Presenter
By Minnie Bell
eHow Presenter

Minnie Bell has over 20 years of experience framing pictures and fine art. She currently works for Nacq Partners, a company who specializes in picture framing and antiques. Customers...read more

Post a Comment

Post a Comment

Video Transcript

"Once you have your back cut and your picture adhered to your matte, put them on top of each other. You get your glass clean and make sure that the inside is extremely dry. You are going to always make sure that it is dry. If you don't are going to cause moisture inside which is going to give you problems down the line with mold. If mold gets into your picture, it's hard to get it out. Clean the top of the glass and this is to ensure that you don't have a bunch of goobers right next to the lip of the glass which will cause a different problem and harder to clean. Then you pop it all into your frame like so put your back in there, take your staple gun. If you have a, if you are doing this at home and if you have like a black and decker staple gun, it can be used it is a little difficult to do. Just kind of angle it a little bit to where you get a good angle on it so that it will go in a little ways and stay out of ways. You want to back your staple gun up to where you got some air gap between the frame and in the end of the staple. This is real important to ensure that it is going to stay in where you want it to stay. Once you done that, you know that it is not going anywhere it's not going to fall out."

eHow Article: How to Clean Glass & Staple Picture to Frame

Related Ads

  • Have you done this? Click here to let us know.
Get Free Arts & Entertainment Newsletters

Copyright © 1999-2009 eHow, Inc. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.   en-US Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

Demand Media
eHow_eHow Arts and Entertainment