How to Pick the Right Glass for a Picture Frame

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I am Debbie Reeves at John's Design Center and I am here to tell you about custom picture framing. The next thing we want to do is to choose the kind of glass that will best show off your picture. The first one that we have is regular glass. It's just clear, but it has reflection. See that you have a little bit of reflection. You can see the lights, you can see the windows and you can sometimes see yourself especially when you've got a picture that has a dark background. Then, next, you have non-glare glass. Non-glare glass is sort of a frosted glass like the center one here. It has very little glare, but you only want to put it on a picture that you want to keep very soft looking. Then the next one, the one that I love very much, is anti-reflection/glare. This particular one cuts the UV light so that it helps to protect your picture or photograph so that it doesn't fade. If you look, it has almost no reflection at all. This is also like the fourth kind, which is museum glass. Museum glass also cuts the glare so that you have very little reflection and it also protects through the glass. So, here we have three different choices. Even thought they are all the same picture, it gives you a little bit of a softer look here, a little stronger look in the colors (your colors are stronger) in the anti-reflection, or just in the regular which is a very inexpensive glass (which is very nice, if you are worried about price). Well, the price differences, let's say on these three pictures here...the regular glass on this one only costs about four dollars. The non-glare glass here costs about eight dollars. The anti-reflection glass costs about thirty dollars. So, there is a wide range in your pricing in glass. But, it's extremely important that you don't always look at just the price; you look at what it will do for your picture. "