DIY: Dry Mounting

A great way to secure prints to a backing board

Mounting your prints for display nowadays can be a complicated process. By that I'm referring to the enormous increase in new and creative ways to display photographs. Just making a decision on how to display prints on or off a wall requires one to explore a plethora of options.

In this DIY I'll address a mainstay issue that comes up in emails and comments from our wonderful Substack community - affixing a print to a substrate using dry mounting tissue.

Supplies Needed

• Dry mount press (or a dry clothes iron!)

• Dry mount tissue (also called dry mount paper)

• Cutting knifeor rotary cutter

• Flexible dry mount release boards

• tacking iron

• print weights (or old sock filled with BBs)

• Backing board (Gatorboard, heavy-duty mat board or other substrate)