Pricing Matted Photos To Sell

He sold an occasional picture but not enough to cover his costs.

Pricing matted photos to sell.

Depending on a few factors consider how your own work might fit in with those around you. I was selling my pictures without mats and people thought 15 was an exorbitant amount for a picture. Hobby lobby offers more than 300 different types of acid free archival quality mats starting at 8 for an 8 by 10 inch frame. For 50 it s just a picture.

I ve sold prints in a tourist shot before. For other options please see the prices in bay. Price your prints in a way that will encourage customers to buy more. The first thing every new smugmug pro should do is set up pricing.

I have both on the wall framed photos and matted bin art. I threw on some mats from amazon on them and suddenly 20 is a steal of a deal and it only cost me around 1 extra. My just matted 8x10s went for 22 and 5x7 mattes were 15. Prices below include lustre color corrected print mounted on 1 4 foam board.

I have been doing only originals and am now looking at reproductions to acheive a lower price point for budget minded. Standard size mats are cheaper than custom cut mats. If you see an artist with mediocre 9 12 matted images for 20 and you think yours are better set your prices a little higher. He produced wonderful archival prints and worked the craft shows and art shows trying to sell maybe an 11x14 matted to 16x20 for around 50.

Show some confidence in your work. And my bin art is marked down to exclude the cost of. In the photography world that means sell your prints matted. I m matting the 5x7 to 8x10 with the mid range mats acid free but not conservation museum quality and they will be mounted to the backing board using photo corners.

I have sold cards for 2 50 each or 10 a pack. You can then apply each pricelist to galleries or individual photos with a click. For example selling one matte 5 7 print for 29 00 two for 49 00 and three for 55 00 will encourage bulk buying. Matted prints unframed sizes and prices matted prints can be ordered with or without a frame and are available with single windows or multiple windows in various configurations depending on the overall finished size.

I have settled on pricing them at 15 dollars each and the 8x10 s will probably be at about 30 each. Put a frame on it if you are in a gallery. The biggest selling one was an 8x10 matted and framed for 70. Mats are often used in custom framing projects to back photos posters or images and provide an appealing display.

Smugmug s pricing tool allows you to create different pricelists for different products. I have found matted framed prints sell well. I mat prints for the bins and will frame a few to sell.