How to make pictures : easy lessons for the amateur photographer (1882)
Price, Henry Clay · New York : Scovill Manufacturing Co. · leaf 71
CHAPTEE IX. TRIMMING AND MOUNTING PRINTS. Prints can be trimmed, one at a time, by laying a ruler over them, and cutting along the straight edge with a very sharp knife, but the more scientific method is to use glass forms, as the picture can be … a sharp pen-knife cut all around the edges. Better than a knife for this purpose is one of the straight trimmers illustrated by figure 25, as it makes a clean cut edge, not a rough or uneven one. Mounting the Prints, — When through trimming the prints my plan is to dampen a light of glass, at the…
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