as you may know from previous posts, i recently purchased a home. part of the fun of being a homeowner is determining what artwork will go in each room.
my dining room has a 12 ft. wall facing the entry, and i decided to frame and hang three of my photos. since i didn’t have photos from any of my travels up thus far, i figured i’d pick three favorites, have them enlarged and call it a day. oh……so much easier said than done.
should i choose three from the same trip or three of the same theme? do i go with bright colors or try and create an arty black & white trio? i don’t usually edit my pictures, just the normal cropping, removing red-eye, things of that nature; but i wasn’t sure that my raw images would be interesting enough for the dining room.
my non-computer savvy self decide to look into Photoshop programs that might magically take my images and make them into totally fascinating, gallery-worthy creations. right. those programs, not really user-friendly. i suppose once you know what you’re doing it’s easy, but for the first time user, painful, truly painful. i gave it a go with Elements 10 and Lightroom, and i managed to make some usable prints, but the more i look at them, the more i think, “hotel art”.
one fun thing about picking out the images to frame, i was able to look at all of my travel albums and relive the trips of the past. so many good memories!