Digital BW, The Print

I leave a lot of white all the way around.  It's a hold over from silver
days when it stemmed the flow of degradation that normally sarts at the
outter edges.

Now it gives a large handling area and plenty of excess for
mounting/hinging.

If it is signed below the image, I leave about 0ne-half the amount of space
on the other three sides.  (E.g., if it's 1/2" at the bottom, the other
sides have 1/4" white inside the mat.

Yes, as in the "old days" of photography I always leave more mat at the
bottom.  It is an optical balance thing.

Seth 

==-----Original Message-----
==From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...] 


==
==So let me ask a simple question then:  for those who like to 
==sign their prints just under the image, do you leave the same 
==bottom border (as the top, left and right) or do you leave a 
==little extra room at the bottom?
==
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