Method of mounting a photograph utilizing a framing template and mounting assembly

A method of mounting a canvas photograph comprising the steps of:

• Placing and aligning a template on the back of the canvas photograph, where the template comprises four cutouts;
• Placing and securing four brackets onto the back of the canvas photograph, where each bracket is placed through one of the four cutouts in the template, where each bracket has two sides, two angled ends, a top and a bottom, where one of the two sides comprises an adhesive, where each of the angled ends comprises an adhesive and a socket;
• and where the bottom surface comprises an adhesive;
• Removing the template from the back of the canvas photographer;
• Cutting the corners of the canvas photograph at a forty-five (45) degree angle;
• Cutting a miter cut into each of the corners of the canvas photograph, where the miter cut is perpendicular to the previous angled cut of each corner;
• Folding and securing portions of the canvas photograph over the ends of each bracket;
• Rotating the brackets inwards towards each other such that the each end of each bracket mates with an end of another bracket;
• Inserting joiners into the sockets of the ends of each bracket;
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• Folding and securing portions of the canvas photograph over a side of each bracket.

A method of mounting a photograph comprising the steps of:

• first, obtaining a template and a mounting assembly, where the template comprises, a center portion, and four cutouts, where the four cutouts are rectangular openings in the template bordered on an inner side by the center portion, bordered on an outer side by an outer edge, and bordered on top and bottom sides by two corners, where the mounting assembly comprises four brackets, where each bracket comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, two ends, an inner surface and an outer surface, where the ends are angled at 45 degrees from the top surface and the bottom surface, and where at least one of the top surface, bottom surface, two ends, inner surface and outer surface is coated on at least a portion with an adhesive substance, where each bracket additionally comprises a removable, non-tacky protective liner, where each end of each bracket additionally comprises a dovetail socket;
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• second, using said photo framing template and mounting bracket assembly to mount said photograph through trimming the photograph to match the dimensions of the template, removing the protective liner from each bracket, then placing the four brackets into the four cutouts in the template, removing the template, making a small cut into each of the four corners of the photograph, turning each bracket over thereby rolling each bracket toward the center of the photograph, securing each end of each bracket to the adjacent bracket by inserting a joiner into the dovetail sockets of each bracket.