
There are dozens of ways a photograph can be printed and mounted. Thankfully, album makers don't use corner mounts. However, album vendors have been known to mount their photographs differently, calling each process by different names. Because I feel that this topic is so important to understand, I'm going to break this subject into a few lessons. Today, I'm going to focus on flush mount.
Generally, there is one standard definition for flush mount - printing a single image and mounting it completely (or flush) to the backing of the company's choosing. I use the term "backing" losely but for albums, it refers to the thick card stock that are bound together to make the album leaves or pages. The singular image is likely to be a digital, printed image and may contain multiple pictures. Depending on your album maker, they may choose to print and mount an entire spread...like so...


Either way, the picture will be firmly adhered to the backing (usually thick card stock) - hence the term "flush" mount.
Also, don't be fooled - there are two types of flush mount albums - those that are mounted by the album company and those that you mount yourself. More on that next time...
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