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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Louis Fleckenstein (1866-1943) Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ng its shape or stretching it unduly.Were it not for the trouble -in cleaning the glass afterwardI would prefer to recommend pasting the whole piece ofblack paper to the glass, and let it dry before attempting tocut out the center. This gives a truer shape, but one willhave trouble getting rid of the paste on the glass when hecomes to polish it for printing. We now take up the second piece of black paper, andprepare to cut out a section that shall represent the size ofthe picture that is to adorn the center. In the card before us this is 67 by 117 millimeters, whichleaves a margin of 10 millimeters on all sides of the print. These 10 millimeters must be marked ofif inside the linesascertained from the pattern card from which they wereoutlined, and cut out with the knife, using caution in gettingthe mask straight and the corners without any overcutting,or with broken lines. The piece taken out from this is alsosaved for further use. We have now a glass plate with a shape cut out the 70
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NAPPING. LOUIS FLECKENSTEIN. size of our postal, and a mask from another piece of paperthe shape of our picture. Our next task will be to adjusta center for the former that will insure the latter getting intocorrect position, and protect the picture while printing thefurther embellishments. It looks easy, but it is not so simple if you do not use careand judgment in placing them. My plan is to take the center that was cut out from thepart that determined the shape of the picture, and reduce itslength and breadth by cutting off one centimeter from two ofits four edges; or, in other words, making it 66 by ii6 centi-meters. The reason for this will appear later on. In order to get it into its proper place on the glass, to whichit is affixed by paste that will not stretch it, I lay the glasson a table, and place the piece of paper the size of the postalinside the shape; which is really putting it back in its properplace, and inside this again is set the section cut out of thepiece that de

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