I
don't know about you but over the years I have found no matter
how careful I am setting the printing paper in the easel before
exposure, it can still come out wrong. I'm talking about making sure the the picture is parallel to the sides of the paper. It
is something we all have to deal with at some point. The problem
being you can not tell this until the paper has been processed by
which time it is to late.
This
means that the paper has to be trimmed true again. To allow for this
I have increased the margins around the printed area and even the
size of the paper. Which I think is a waste as I would prefer to use
the whole sheet to print on. But aesthetically speaking I think the
margin around the picture adds to the overall effect and stops finger marks getting on the image. Which leads on
to another skill that needs to be mastered, the art of trimming your
print parallel. At one time it did not matter what I did I could not
get it right, that is until a friend introduced me to the cut edge
principle. This is where you use the freshly trimmed edge as your
straight edge for the next cut and so on round the print. Wow! what a
difference it has made over the years.
The
knowledge of this method has helped with the trimming of my FB prints
that I stick to a pane of glass so they dry flat - described here in
another article.
