Dear Shannon, Troublemaker. I have spent the last two days with an 8" x 8" print and pieces of mounting board seeing what all the fuss was about and have come to the conclusion that there is no right way. I tried the idea of a 16" x 20" matte board and the little print smack dab in the middle or smack dab in the middle but up a bit. It is like putting a pea on a plate - there is too much matt board and too little print. Smaller board. About an inch of space round the top and sides and an inch and a quarter at the bottom. I cannot really decide whether I like this better than having an inch all round but I figure it may be a case of chacon a son gout remedy, or where did I put the pills. At least you get more matt boards out of a big piece. Ever radical, I tried the experiment of putting the print up in the top right edge in a sort of art-deco form. It actually looked good. I tried tilting the print and the frame. Also good, but you needed a certain jazziness about the print to carry it off. I suspect that if I tried this sort of artiness on exhibition committees they would throw their hands up and me out. Just as well I frame for my own premises and the houses of friends. I keep 'em in dim corners.... Uncle Dick ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.