13 Sep How to Keep Your Art Healthy
The best way to deal with photo and art damage is to prevent it from happening. We share a few tips on how to keep your art healthy. ...
The best way to deal with photo and art damage is to prevent it from happening. We share a few tips on how to keep your art healthy. ...
Silverfish damage is one of the most common types of photo damage we see at our studio. Learn about silverfish and how to protect your photos....
Closed-corner and finished-corner frames are beautiful, timless frames for any piece of art. Learn how to elevate your art in this post. ...
Let’s talk about ambrotypes. An ambrotype is a photograph whose technique dates to the 1850s. It is the antique equivalent to the modern day slide. Created through a wet process, an ambrotype is a glass negative that appears to be a positive. It is painted black...
"Silvering" is a form of photo damage to silver-based emulsions. Learn how to identify, protect, & preserve silvering black and white photos in this post. ...
Champagne frames are the ultimate versatile frame. The color and finish on champagne frames allows this moulding to work with almost any type of piece and pair with other types of frames. We list a few reasons why this unsung hero of framing is a...
We’ve all seen the insurance commercials where they make light of terrible situations, but as funny as they may be, disasters happen. As artists, it is always upsetting to see a piece of art suffering from smoke damage as a result of a fire or...
Transforming a black and white photo with color can be magical. Making gray eyes blue and adding life to cheeks is an art form that is sometimes trivialized. In the “I want it now” age, techies have developed apps and bots to instantly add color...
We live to create, and we love that “Ta-Da” moment when our clients see the final result of their project. As a creative, it is special and personal for us to take someone’s vision – a vision they aren’t always sure is possible to attain...
One of the questions we hear in the studio is: “Now that my slides and negatives are digital, can I just throw them away?” There is a mass movement of folks that are unencumbering themselves from their possessions. The influence of the Danish lifestyle and digital archiving...
It is common for clients to bring in a photo and ask us to add or remove a person. When removing a person, the reason could be one of many: “We’re divorced.” “I hated them.” “I don’t know who they are.” “They’re ruining the photo.” ...
Mary Lou bought a new phone last week, and one of the first things she did with it was photograph her son’s National Honor Society induction. She forgot her camera, but she was able to get (pretty good) photos of her son anyway. It’s hard to...