Digital BW, The Print

At 07:12 AM Thursday 10/4/2007, you wrote:
>In particular, I'm interested in methods that showcase the texture of the
>papers I've come to love. It seems that as soon as the image goes
>behind glass/acrylic, it's difficult to get a sense of the "feel" of
>the paper anymore - which is a shame, since for me that is a big part
>of the experience of the print.

Have you been leaving a 'reveal' (or gap) between the image and the matt? Doing so allows the bare paper texture to show at the edge of the image and with art papers like Photo Rag this can be advantageous.

Richard 
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