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Summary: Save money by self-framing photographs. Learn more tips for getting photos ready for sale in this free lesson on how to sell photographs from a professional photographer.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"One way that you can save money is by framing your own work. Now there are, you can buy matte cutters, you can buy matte board. You can buy the raw materials to actually make frames and put together for presentation, frames. There are ways on the internet that you can go and buy in bulk matte board. You can buy even glass in bulk. You can buy framing in bulk. Now you need to have the tools in order to know how to frame. And there are classes where they'll teach you how to frame. And framing is a skill that, if you can get, you will absolutely just love yourself because framing is so expensive. But it's also incredibly meticulous. There are only a few people I've known in my life that could sit there and frame something perfectly in a fast amount of time. So it's just a slow process, incredibly neat and attention to detail. But, if you're that type of person, essentially, you'd be starting from scratch, making your photographs and your frames and selling them. There's really nothing better than that."
eHow Article: How to Frame Photographs
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