Enhancing Your Artwork: Exploring the Exciting World of Picture Framing Glazing

People new to framing may hear framers talk about glazing. I had one artist once ask when we said we offered “glazing” if it was some sort of poly-acrylic or resin coating like a liquid laminate. The answer is no. In picture framing, “glazing” refers to the protective pane that is placed over the artwork or photograph to protect it from dust, dirt, moisture, and UV light. Glazing can be made of various materials, including glass, acrylic, and plexiglass.

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Packaging Prints – Part 2

In part 1 on the topic of packaging your artwork, we focused on some best practices when shipping only a few prints at most by using either rigid flat mailers or shipping tubes. Now in part 2 of packaging your prints, we explore shipping larger bulkier items such as a large volume of prints, stretched and mounted canvas, or framed prints.

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Cutting Your Prints

I recently discussed torn or deckled-edged prints. But people also ask how we cut and manage so many giclee prints. When we give them a behind-the-scenes look at our facility they are quite amazed at the organization and sorting of so many prints when we may have to produce so many prints each day on over 20 different giclee papers.

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3 Ways to Hang a Panel Print

Panel prints are prints that have no sort of hanging hardware on them. Aside from easy to produce without the fuss of adding any hanging hardware that extends out they are relatively easy to package and ship. The question may arise on how to best hang these.

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A New Way to Scan Your Artwork

A simple way to create high-quality images of your artwork. Capturing a high-resolution image of a painting is difficult and expensive. But with Artzip, an innovative new app launching in beta this weekend, artists can now easily create high-res images of their artwork using a smartphone.

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New Texturized Prints

We now offer texturized prints which match the contours of your image when you order your image to be printed at FinerWorks. Currently this is available only with Dibond Metal prints however we expect this to soon be available with canvas prints as well.

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An Easy Way Earn More from Your Art Sales

How would you like to stumble upon a formula that reliably will increase how much you make in your art-based business selling prints or even original artwork? There is a method that a lot of businesses, especially those selling online use, but remarkably many others fail utilize. And it is very simple. It does not require you to raise any prices of existing listings or work harder promoting yourself. Of course, you can do that as well if you like which will likely help, but let’s see how you can do this without raising prices or working much harder.

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