This Is Why I Use Clear Mounts

PostmasterGS

I really enjoyed the German page that you posted and would like to know is this something you created yourself or purchased or modified from an online source .. I really late like the page design and the layout and I'm very interested in doing something like this for my Belgium collection.

Any information or details you can provide would be very much appreciated thanks
Jim

Jim,

I create my own pages from scratch using Adobe InDesign. You can see more in this thread, which includes a few samples plus links to the relevant pages on my website.

If you need assistance, I'd be happy to help. Do you have a particular piece of software that you use or can use to build pages?

PostmasterGS,
I don't believe I have any software programs that will build pages but I will check with my son and see since he's the IT guy in the family... I'll also need to get some free time and start doing some reading on how that is accomplished and what programs are needed ... I hate feeling dumb and helpless in a situation like this and the only solution is to educate myself ... let me do that and look at your link and then see what questions I might have so that I'm not wasting your time

Thanks,
Jim

I just finished spending some time looking at your website and want to say I really enjoyed it.
I've looked at a lot of different album pages over the last 20 years or so and I must say that I have not seen one that strikes me so favorably as yours does. It's really a breath of fresh air compared to everything else I've seen ...
I really love the way you have the country name left justified instead of centered and then the section titled centered..along with good info pertaining to each stamp.. I think what really sets your page off is the fact that you left off all the ornate flourishes, ornaments and extraneous stuff that everyone seems to be so fond of having around the framelines and instead ..you stuck with a very nice clean lean look.... and the top right corner treatment is really nice where the outer frame line is indented or I guess compacted to form the square box instead of a regular corner and then the inner frame line cuts across it at a 45 degree angle... it's really a very very impressive-looking page ... I truly wish I were that creative... my hats off to you sir !

I also use inDesign for my pages. I'm no where near as artistic though! I start with Steiner then resize the pages to fit my albums, add the Scott border and expand from there. I typically find the boxes are slightly the wrong size and I really want to have more depth than just the Scott listings. My latest experiments are in Finland and Sweden, where I've started putting more data from the specialized catalogs onto the page, such that it's visible even when I have the stamp. :)

Billsey,

Where did you get the border?

Greetings All,

I prefer to use clear mounts, especially when sorting and researching my stamp collection. The layout I use is very easy to produce and when I am happy with the stamps I transfer them to a final layout ready to go into an album.

I tend to work in photoshop for the frame and Quark for the main text.

In the last 4/5 weeks I have produced over 450 pages of written up & mounted stamps for my Persia collection.

Thanks for looking
Andrew

For anyone who prefers the look of black mounts, but likes the forgiving nature of clear mounts, one can fill the box with solid black, or to to save ink, a thick black border similar to boxes 6 or 7 in the image below and use clear mounts to hold the stamps



One is of course not restricted to black, I recently received a scan of an album page that used filled grey boxes, similar to box 5 above, which looked really good.

Clive

Or to push the pendulum to a minimalist approach ... no boxes at all around the stamps.

In my opinion, clear is the way to go.
Top loaders for the pages in my albums; split back mounts on the pages I take to exhibitions to make sure they don't fall out in transit.
see: http://victoria.cgpostal.com/
on these, I did print black boxes on the page where I was showing the paper types of the large queens.
http://canada.cgpostal.com/

MOC album pages for French Colonies use clear mounts over a black frame -

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOC-SF-I...AOSw-bRedzyk