Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch 2X Ultra Cover Spray Paint, Matte Clear

This has been an excellent product for numerous painting projects. I have used this to seal several outdoor items (decorative plaques, birdhouses, wooden flags, etc) and all have held up beautifully. Even in the sun the color has not faded at all. Very happy with this and will repurchase!

Clear Rust-Oleum works fantastic to protect your art. Love the brand and love the product!

Worked as it should.. Sprayed great. Looked great. Adhered great.

Not much to say. Saved me money and worked amazing. Simple to use and shipped fast

Looks great just tested

Okay for book binding. If you want a really nice finish and feel for covers on home made books, you'll definitely want to be looking for some clear coating sprays like this. It sound's counterintuitive to spray liquid on paper, but it works wonderfully. The hardest part is keeping dust away while spraying multiple coats outside. You'll want to use some other clear coat as well but I always start by coating my covers with a couple coats of the UV resistant krylon stuff for both UV protection and just gets the ball rolling for the next few coats. But you can follow that up with other stuff. Just stay away from fixatives and varnishes unless that's somehow what you want. But it can be confusing when browsing all the options so, yknow. Krylon 1311 and its glossy counterpart are good but are quite fine mist and might require more coats to build up the coating you want. That's why I like krylon colormaxx versions to use in the middle coat to build it up since colormaxx has a lot more volume but less fine mist, and then finishing it with the finer mist stuff for quality. Also worth noting you can mix and match finishes if you want to get particular, like layering a gloss under a thin layer of matte to soften it type beat. The rustoleum stuff is similar in spray and quality to a colormaxx I'd say but depending on the sales at the time you can probably get the krylon cheaper and I trust it more for this use case and I feel when I tried this stuff it needed more coast but I can't say that for %100. On a clear sunny day they should dry almost instantly, at least enough to put another coat on. Maybe a bit longer for the thicker ones. For paperbacks I always print and then spray onto 180gsm matte photo paper. You don't need glossy paper to get a glossy finish, it will probably just be harder to deal with and sticky/tacky attracting dirt and such and may be more expensive. I find myself needing 4-6 total coats depending on the desired finish. Sounds like a lot but it's a small surface area and like I said they dry quickly so you can do them fast. I just hold the cover up to the light of the sun to look for imperfections in the sheen and if it's a little splotchy, just do another coat. One last thing, since each individual coat is thinner than most pieces of dust, you can most often pick out the dust after waiting for the previous coat to dry as long as you're vigilant. Presuming it's just the odd spec of dirt. and not a sandstorm anyway. That's about it, hopefully this information is useful to others trying to figure this out.

This is a gold star product. I purchased a metal bench for my flower garden that receives all the spring, summer & fall weather elements. It had great reviews on Amazon, except it rusted easily. So I purchased this can of clear Rust-Oleum in a matte finish and sprayed my bench before putting in the garden. 60+ days and it still looks brand new! I highly recommend this product to increase the durability of any product that could potentially rust.

Covered in first coat

Works well

Amazing, comfortable, fast dry

Rustoleum is simply the best

Really good product.. Please read the instruction carefully before use and always try on different surface before trying it for real!!! ITs matte coat, with clear finish!!! Can be applied with few minites interval...I got it for my guitar for protection the unfinished wood, came out great!!!

Used to seal front desk after painting it to protect the paint