Duo

Even if you know it by another name, you're probably already familiar with what we call overlay mounting. Details vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but the photograph is lightly taped behind the mat, with the print edge concealed behind it.

With pagemount presentation, the prints are trimmed slightly to reveal the coloured base page. If you're designing in Photojunction or Workspace the software automatically sizes the prints to the required size for you. Exposing the base page, under the mat, creates a 3D border effect around the images. You can also use different colours for the page and mat.

See more on the difference between pagemount and overlay.

If you're designing albums yourself using Photojunction, even with our matted pages you don't have to drag and drop your images into existing "templates" if you don't want to. You can lay prints out on the page almost any way you wish, design layouts on the fly or use templates that you've created yourself or downloaded from our website.

For practical reasons, the minimum “legal” distance between matted apertures, and between apertures and the edge of the page, is 10mm (3/8-in). (The minimum distance to page edge is set to zero in Flushmount and Duo albums so that you can bleed images out to the edge of the page.)

When you do bleed images to the page edge, make sure critical image areas (such as borders, text, heads) are at least 12mm from the edge, especially if a flushmount copy is to be made. Otherwise, they may look unsightly or even get trimmed away. Text, heads etc should also be kept clear of the page spine.

Photojunction displays photo safe guides on page layouts to remind you of this, and will also warn you if your design doesn't comply, as the problem needs to be fixed before we can make your album.

Workspace design of matted albums is entirely template based. If you want to "free-design" matted albums, please use Photojunction.

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