All About Images

All About Images occupies a storefront in the small cluster of art related businesses on West Fifth Street and Royellou Lane, close enough to the Mount Dora History Museum that the shop’s own description places it directly across the street. The business describes itself as a one stop shop for museum grade fine art reproduction, giclee printing, digital restoration, photographic retouching, and custom framing, a combination of services that puts it in a different category than the typical strip mall frame shop.

The custom framing side of the business handles the everyday work most visitors associate with a framing shop, mounting artwork, photographs, and memorabilia in frames chosen to match the piece rather than pulled off a generic rack. But the giclee printing and digital restoration services extend the shop’s reach well beyond framing alone. Giclee printing uses archival, museum grade inks and papers to reproduce fine art at high resolution, the kind of process artists and collectors turn to when they want gallery quality prints of an original painting or photograph rather than a standard commercial print. Digital restoration and photographic retouching, meanwhile, cater to a different customer entirely, people bringing in damaged, faded, or torn family photographs and asking to have them repaired and preserved digitally, often before the physical print itself is framed and displayed.

Because the shop sits in the middle of downtown Mount Dora’s small gallery district, within a short walk of Artisans of Mt. Dora, the Modernism Museum, and the History Museum, it functions almost as infrastructure for the rest of that arts corridor, the place local artists and collectors turn to when a finished piece needs archival printing or a proper frame before it goes up on a gallery wall or into a private collection. That role is less visible to a first time visitor than a gallery or museum, but it is part of what keeps Mount Dora’s downtown art scene functioning day to day.

All About Images keeps regular retail hours, open Monday through Friday from ten in the morning to six in the evening and Saturday from noon to five, closed Sunday. For anyone visiting Mount Dora with a piece of art or a box of old family photographs that need attention, or simply looking to have a print or painting properly framed before it goes home, the shop offers a level of specialized service that is not always easy to find outside a larger city. It is a practical, working business rather than a browsing destination on its own, but it rounds out downtown Mount Dora’s art related offerings in a way that supports the galleries and artists working nearby.