People capture photos to create memories which they can watch later in their life, and remember the good and bad times associated to them. But for a professional photographer, the aim of capturing photos is different. They want to draw viewers’ attention to their subjects. Frames are the tools that make their task easier. Plus, there are other benefits of framing pictures. Here are a few.

Makes Photos Outstanding

A well captured photograph is a piece of art in itself. But when you frame it, it becomes outstanding. Framed prints that tell their own stories, and start deep conversations, have a mysterious charm to them and have a power to improve the aesthetics of any space. You can even include a frame mat to have a customized look and feel, like in this picture captured in Florence, Italy, by photographer and digital artist, Scott Allen Wilson. You’ll have to research the texture, style and color so you could get the best look with framing of the picture.

Quality

For the best outcome, you should consider custom framing. A professional photographer has the right techniques and tools to make sure the job is being performed to the highest quality possible. On the contrary, if you buy frames from any random store, you’re most likely to end up getting plastic resin frames. This won’t be right if one of your purposes behind framing photos is to make them last long. Low-quality materials are highly acidic and will quickly damage the pictures.

Protection

Photos are valuable and you don’t want them to be damaged by the elements. One of the greatest downsides of photographs is that they can quickly fade away if they don’t get any protection. A proper frame helps you protect your valuable art from the elements, such as UV radiation that can devastate your art pieces. Frames will also help protect photos from handling and other environmental factors that can damage them. They also prevent fading, yellowing and degrading of photos.

Expression of Personality

Probably the biggest benefit of framing pictures is expression of personality. Without having to say a single word about the subject, it helps express their personality. Not only humans and animals, but also places have their own personality. A frame can highlight it. The type, shape, size and color of the frame can all be customized to your liking. You can even choose various designs including glazing textures.

Look at this framed photograph captured in Venice, Italy, by Scott, that has been realized on Fuji Crystal Archive paper and the frame is made of beautiful ebony solid wood. Isn’t the frame making the dome’s personality even more discernible?

Keeps Them Safe

A frame offers a definite structure to photos due to which the risk of losing them is eliminated. Photos can be lost while moving to a new house or get rolled in and eventually damaged if allowed to accumulate with other stuff. You don’t want dust to build up on your precious travel photos that can add beauty to your walls and gain you praises of your guests. Framing is essential in that case to keep your photographs safe and prevent them from losing.

Makes Old Photographs Look New

You might have many old photos that don’t look very good over time. However, framing can make them look new and fresh. High-quality frames can dramatically improve the aesthetics of any picture and even they can make you notice many aspects in the old photos that you might not have noticed before. Just because of the frame, you’ll even feel proud to hang the photos on the wall. the beautiful frames will improve your home’s décor.

Hanging Without Damage

Another benefit of framing is that you can hang your photos without causing any damage. If you don’t use picture frames, you may use duct tapes or nails to hang the pictures. These will damage your materials. However, framing allows you to hang your photos without causing any damage. Frames are made of various materials, including wood and metal. You’re free to choose any material as per your liking, personality and wall color.

Elevated Visual Interest

With framing, the photographer can achieve more depth within their photo, which is always great for elevated visual interest. By directing your viewer’s sight through a frame in the foreground off to pay attention to the distant subject in the background, and thus you’re unintentionally demanding more of your viewers’ attention to the photo as they’re lead spatially deeper through the bigger overall scene. This added aspect of dimension is obviously a nice aesthetic addition.

Better Perspective of the Scene

Apart from being beneficial for drawing viewers’ attention, framing is also very useful for adding some context to your photograph and help your audience get an improved perspective of the scene.

For example, look at this photo captured in Venice, Italy, by Scott. You can notice many details of the scene which you wouldn’t have otherwise noticed if the picture weren’t framed. Because of the frame, viewers’ eye is directed straight to the landmarks through the framing. The frame provides some contextual facts about the architecture and complete scene.

Creation of a Focal Point

One of the basics of interior decoration is to create a focal point in every space. This focal point is that element that draws attention and offers the viewers (your family and guests) a sense of the design theme. Framed prints that tell their own stories, and start deep conversations, can powerfully create a focal point. One can hang them in prominent places, where viewers can easily see them and appreciate the beauty of the entire space.

Offers a Color Palette

By choosing frames of particular colors you can get a color palette suitable to your room’s decoration theme. Colors evoke emotions and you can choose them according to the positive emotions you wish to be evoked in you, your family and guests. Framed photos can play a major role in complementing your design theme and offering a color palette suitable to your design theme.

Makes the Walls Complete and Interesting

Although bare walls provide unlimited potential, they make a space look unfinished and dull. Framed photos make bare walls complete and interesting. When one places these frames strategically on the bare walls, they can fill the void. Well-chosen framed photos also provide an elevation to the room and make it look more sophisticated.

Expertise of the Framer

Users are benefited from the framer’s expertise regarding using quality material, using materials to make the photo look effective and beautiful, choosing the right colors, paper and glass, and ultimately make the photos look outstanding.

Framing photos has so many advantages. Instead of storing photos unframed and thereby heightening the risk of causing damage to them, framing is an excellent way to protect the valuable photos and use them to accentuate the beauty of one’s house. So, have you started looking for framed prints?