Guide to measuring your art for a frame and mount

Measuring your artwork for a frame and mount

Lay your art picture or photograph face up on a flat surface. You need to measure both the length and width in mm at the narrowest points. Make sure when you are measuring you keep your ruler or tape in a straight line.

Note: We cut the opening for your art 4mm per side smaller than the measurements you enter into our frame designer. This is to ensure all artwork will fit perfectly in the picture or photo frame every time. You may wish to take this into account when entering measurements into our frame designer if you are tight for space.

Measuring for a replacement frame

You already have a mount and are looking to swap your frame.

In this case you need to measure the width and height of your mount from external edge to external edge including any borders in mm, making sure you keep your ruler or tap horizontal. We make your picture frame larger by 1mm per side than the figures you enter into our frame designer. This is to ensure a perfect fit every time.

Frames Only

In this case you need to lay your artwork on a flat table and measure it’s width and height in mm. We make your picture frame larger by 1mm per side than the figures you enter into our frame designer. This is to ensure a perfect fit every time.

Measuring for mounts only (you already have a frame you like)

In this instance you have two sets of measurements to take, the internal size of your picture or photo frame and the size of your artwork.

Measuring for the opening of the mount

Lay your art picture or photograph face up on a flat surface. You need to measure both the length and width in mm at the narrowest points. Make sure when you are measuring, you keep your ruler or tape in a straight line. Enter these figures in the “art size in mm” fields.

Measuring your frame

To measure the frame, lay it down on a flat surface face down. Remove any backing board, mounts and pictures. You will see the frame has a rebate your mounts and backing fitted into. You need to measure the exact width and height in mm to the external edge of the rebate (not the external edge of the frame). Enter the width and heights figures into the frame internal size fields and click the “you have a frame” button. Note: This is the size we will manufacture the external size of your mount to minus 1mm per side to allow a perfect fit.

You can then experiment with all other sizes and our mount designer will automatically make any adjustments necessary to keep fixed sizes constant. It’s pretty clever at what it does.