Digital BW, The Print

mccarvill wrote:

> Good points, Bruce.
>
> I intend to mat them, so I should probably stick to 30 x 40 too. Just
> curious \ufffd what's your finished size on a 30 x 40 print, including the
> mat?
>
> And I'll either get 6" tubes or have them packaged between sheets of
> foam core.
>
> Mark

I'm hardly what anyone would want to use as a guide! But since you asked...

My size in that range is 100 x 80 cm (39.4 x 31.5 in). My frame size 
then is 48 x 39.5 in. Not a lot of waste left from a 40 x 60 in. sheet 
of matte board ;-)

You can do the math and see how wide the window boarder is. 
Interestingly, I've found that as a print gets larger, the matting 
boarder tends to get smaller. Unfortunately, the window matte also seems 
to want to get thicker too. I'm using 8-ply matte boards at that size. 
That little extra thickness helps control the large print and keeps it 
from touching the glazing, but more importantly it just looks more 
proportional to me.

That's what I do, more or less. It varies depending on the image of 
course. But just because it works for me doesn't mean that anyone else 
has to do it that way. Clearly, YMMV.
--
Bruce Watson