Old photos can get damaged for any number of reasons. The most common are sun-fading, yellowing, and peeling caused by a photo becoming stuck to the glass of a photo frame.
New Year brings fresh motivation to set new targets to accomplish in the year ahead. The most obvious goals people set are often fitness or health-related, and by February every year, the majority of those who set goals will have fell off the bandwagon and gave up trying.
When your art displays and family photographs lose some of the strong emotional appeals they once had, it may be time to put some feeling back into them. Sometimes, all it takes is a little creativity to breathe life back into what was once a timeless display or to completely overhaul your wall art with creative design.
For any aspiring artist trying to make a living selling art, there may be an industry that’s not caught your eye, up until now. That’s the hospitality sector as art is a big part of each hotels brand image.
Cast your mind back to the 1990s when you stayed at any hotel or bed and breakfast, anywhere in Britain. Chances are you’ll remember the usual floral prints to line the walls of hotel hallways, receptions and the rooms.
As any artist and photographer selling prints will know, all the creative talent in the world doesn’t necessarily equate to easy sales. The marketing you have to do to get your prints into homes, exhibitions, stores and in front of potential paying customers takes a whole heap of work.
What if there was an easier way to capture eyeballs and make people extremely enthusiastic about buying your prints or professional photography?
Businesses commonly put a variety of framed prints on display in their reception area, along long walls like hallways in the break room and within the offices of staff to display things such as their own certifications and achievements.
Many a business rarely takes full advantage of their own digital images, including those that are custom created to assist with the company branding, such as company logos, or even multimedia images like infographics created for online publicity.
Home décor can be enhanced by getting creative with your wall displays. Frames are generally described as picture or photo frames, but in terms of using them for artistic displays, there’s so much more you can do than only displaying your best collections of photographs.
Framed art is mostly considered to be poster art, paintings or sketches; however, art can be anything you find to be artistic, and that can extend to pressed flower art, glossy magazine covers or a creative assortment of paper designs stuck to a mount board and inserted into a picture frame.
As the night’s get darker, days seem longer and the summer months of garden parties have become a distant memory, the majority of our days after work are spent indoors, with the family in the sitting room around the television.
By the time Autumn rolls around, according to a study by the world’s largest mood board site (Pinterest), is when over half of Brits are thinking about redecorating their home. This is mainly because they’re spending more time indoors than they were when the better weather was around.
Everyone has their down days, and some of us have things we do to lift our moods, get our positivity back and motivate ourselves to push onwards towards our goals.
Some turn to comedy, knowing that science has proven laughter’s an excellent medicine; others are able to lift their spirit with the simplest of smiles.
Photo collages of memorable events in our lives are one of those uplifting tools we could all likely do with a bit more of in our lives. The pieces you need to put your own motivational and smile-inspiring collage is probably stored on your phone.
Changing the mounts that are inside your picture frames are a quick way to alter their appearance without reframing your photos. It’s handy for when you’ve changed the colour scheme of a room or even for photographers trying their hand at framing portfolio pieces.
All you need are some really sharp cutting tools, a straight-edged ruler - preferably a sturdy builders’ ruler that’s long enough to mark and cut your mount boards in one pass - and a pencil for marking your cutting lines.
