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Matboard and Pre-Cut Mats
Pre Cut Mats

Pre Cut MatsWhether you’re a student looking to mount assignments, a photographer who wants to frame prints or a proud parent looking to show off your child’s graduation photo, Hampton Photo, Arts and Framing in Bridgehampton will provide pre-cut mats for any of your framing needs.

What Types of Mats Do I Need?

Hampton Photo, Arts and Framing wants to help bring out the best in your images and artwork. Our pre-cut mats are made with high-quality matboard with a permanent bright white bevel. The surface papers are designed to be both fade and bleed resistant. The bevel, surface and backing papers are acid free, which will offer excellent protection for your photos or artwork. All our mats come with backing boards and are pre-cut to fit most frame sizes. If our standard, double or windowless mats are not available in the size you need, our custom framing department can cut a mat that works for you.

 
Peterboro Designer Suede Mats

The attractive changes in color and texture, characteristic of suede, add a new dimension to matting. Whether it is used in shadowboxes, photos, art or precious heirlooms, suede will always add a touch of elegance.

This board is a high quality designer suede with a dense, luxurious flock mounted on an extra thick bright conservation core. Colors and the soft embossing that creates the look and feel of brushed suede are even throughout the matboard and perfectly consistent from run to run.

  • Conservation quality
  • All parts buffered to a pH of 7.5 to 9.5  
  • Brite white, extra thick bevel
 
Peterboro Black Core Mats

Peterboro Black Core Custom Mats are designed with a deep, rich, black core. At times when a white bevel is distracting, Peterboro Black Core can allow the viewer's eye to focus on the art and not the bright bevel. Black Core mats may also be used to give an extra element of design without the use of a second mat and are especially effective when v-grooves are used.

Peterboro Black Core Mats are made with a buffered surface paper, a black core with a proprietary retention chemistry to minimize rub off. Dark Grey, non transferring conservation grade backing paper is used to provide a seamless visual appearance.

These custom mats are ideally suited to Black and White Photography, Prints, Awards, Memorabilia or any other art that is enhanced by a dark accent line.

Peterboro Black Core mats come in 22 colors and are available at Hampton Photo Arts.

 
Peterboro White Core Mats

Peterboro Custom White Core Mats are a high quality mat designed for those who want the impact of a bright white bevel that will not discolor but do not require the qualities or price of conservation matboard. With a range of over 145 colors available at Hampton Photo Arts. Peterboro Custom White Core Mats will help you meet all your designing challenges.

What makes Peterboro White Core Custom Mats different?

It has a unique construction with each component buffered to a pH of 8.2 +/-0.5% and containing a minimum 3% reserve of calcium carbonate to provide years of stability.

The Surface Paper is made of the same high quality papers found on the Peterboro Conservation Mats. The surface paper is buffered and lignin free. It has a high strength quality to minimize surface tearing during cutting.

The core is pure white and has been buffered against acids to ensure bright white bevels and v groves for years to come.

The backing paper is buffered acid free with a tensile profile that keeps the board flat.

The Peterboro White Core Mat line has one of the highest specifications in the market. The result is a superior custom mat that will stand the test of time, resisting the effects of acid degradation and remaining bright.

 
Peterboro Custom Mats

Peterboro custom mats are buffered acid free with a pulp based cream core. They are available at Hampton Photo Arts in over 120 colors, textures and designer finishes and comes in both standard and giant size formats.

What makes Peterboro custom mats different?

Over 75 % of the Peterboro matboards use our conservation grade surface paper which guards against color bleed and fading.

Peterboro custom mats are pulp based mats and are intended for decorative purposes only. While they are buffered and neutralized at the time of manufacture, they will not remain this way and should not be considered acid free.

 
Foamboard

Black FoamcoreHampton Photo Arts carries a wide variety of foamcore. Foamcore is a strong lightweight, easily cut material useful for backing, mounting, framing, painting and 3D design. The surface of foamboard is slightly acidic. For archival photo and framing purposes there are acid-free versions available. Hampton Photo Arts carries foamcore in the following sizes and styles.

 
Matboard Sheets

The picture framing mat is most commonly known for its use as additional decoration to enhance the look of a framed piece, sometimes in conjunction with a fillet. Typically the mat or mats, if matched carefully and properly proportioned, serve to help draw the eye in towards the framed piece, or towards a particular key element of the piece.

Mats are fairly adaptable in the visual sense. Since they are typically quite thin they are able to be cut to "stack" inside of a frame, allowing for double, triple or quadruple matting, or even allowing for a fillet in between mats.

Hampton Photo Arts carries a large selection of matboard in a varitey of sizes.

32x4040x6048x7248x96

Regular Matboard

Designer Matboard

Designer Whitecore Matboard

Textured Matboard

Embossed Matboard

Foil Matboard

Conservation Matboard

Conservation Double Thick

Whitecore Matboard

Whitecore Double Thick

Blackcore Matboard

Silkscreen Matboard

Suede Matboard

Museum Matboard

Regular Matboard

Conservation Matboard

Conservation Double Thick

Whitecore Matboard

Whitecore Double Thick

Blackcore Matboard

Museum Matboard

Museum Matboard

Museum Matboard

 
Canvas Printing

Printing on canvas is incredibly versatile and a great way to create a ready-to-hang image or artwork. Every canvas that we print  is protected with a UV coated acrylic finish to guard the print from dust, moisture and fading. Do you want your canvas stretched on bars or non-stretched? Framed or unframed? Customize the work to make it truly your own.

 
Art Prints – How are they made?

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Photography by Laurie Barone-Shafer
Nowadays just about anyone can take a good quality photographs with a digital camera. Or take a few hundred pictures and the chances are few will be good, and even one or two outstanding.

Here are a few tips, tricks and techniques on how to make art print poster ready photographs and print ready digital files. Don’t get overwhelmed, there is a lot of information here, but a lot of it is just intuitive. Well, a bit of patience will always help.

First thing – Photo Size

If you taking a digital photo of you family or friend the largest size you would print is usually 5 by 7 inches, maybe 8 by 10 at the most. Even small size digital photographs (2MB or less) are ‘good enough’ to create a decent print. But if you want to create prints that are 16 by 20, 20 by 24 inches or larger you need more pixels (in pixels 20 by 24 inches photo is actually about 40 times larger than 3 by 4 inches photo assuming they have the same resolution).

 
Learning to Paint Watercolors

Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art.  Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with watercolor paint, paper, and brushes.  Several techniques may be used with watercolors for varying effects including painting wet on wet, wet on dry, layering washes, and more.

Watercolor paper comes in cold press, hot press, and rough.  Rough paper has the most texture, and its hills and valleys can result in interesting effects when paint is added.  Hot press is the smoothest and has the finest texture.  Cold press has a moderate amount of texture and is the paper most commonly chosen by watercolor artists.

Watercolor paper comes in several weights ranging from 90 lb. to 300 lb. based on the pounds per ream of paper.  Most artists prefer to use at least 140 lb. paper.  Papers vary somewhat between manufacturers, so sampling different papers is advisable.  Paper can be purchased in pads, in blocks or in large sheets.  The large sheets are usually the most economical and can be torn into whatever size is desired.

 
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