I had to do the same - if you are taking with an IPhone try playing with the filters too.

Take the photo. Return the glass to the frame.

I used two fluorescent (meaning wide) lights, one on each side, at 45 degrees to the picture.

I did that to "scan" stuff using an ipad on a little stand above the pictures.

Complex suggestion is withheld for now. It involves a "Circular polarizer" but you might find one of those old "anti glare" screens that were often used with computer monitors. They did the same thing.

Understand about not wanting to take it apart. Some photos use sharp little pins, rather than long-ish "staples" to hold everything together. And then you have to put them back. Maybe a craft store can make suggestions or help.

Yeah, if I take it apart I'll probably just put it in a new frame altogether. The professional frame is double matted too. If I take it apart I may regret it.

Thank you

This is the ultimate. Search for copy stand. I made my own from odds and ends.




I probably recall the idea from old Kodak books on product photography. Even lighting with no direct glare. Same general idea.

Just vastly simpler.

I see a tabletop version too when i do that search. But for just one picture I'll see what else I can try... or just take 25 photos in various positions and pick the best one.

I do OK with words, too, but pictures work great. Good luck!!

Sometimes it would be inappropriate to take a framed picture off the wall.

This will turn a rectangular artwork into a trapezoid in your image, of course, but that can be fixed in Photoshop, Gimp, etc. at the cost of some loss of resolution.

Shrink the long side, don't expand the short side.

Can Apple or Android cell phones do that? I don't know, I've never had one.

so I don't end up buying the silly stuff.

Iphone has a couple of wedges in the crop /rotate tool that let you "keystone" vertically or horizontally. GIMP has fancy tools but after years, the transform tools still puzzle me. I'll figure them out eventually. I *did* figure out the "heal" tool and took some nasty powerlines out of a nice scenic overlook.

It works well. Pretty amazing.

I think Google photos does too.

Will see what I can do.

Thank you

It should cut the glare.

I have a couple of family portraits that need to be copied too.