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Modern Ways to Display a Portrait

Paintings, photography and brightly colored flowers immediately draw our attention when we step into a room. If you're looking for a new place to showcase a special family picture, go beyond the obvious fireplace mantle location and stake out new territory. With modern technology and a little ingenuity you can display your favorite portrait in a refreshing way in your home.
  1. Coffee Table Book

    • A coffee table book beckons to be opened.

      A number of online publishers can print small-run hardcover editions of glossy, novelty books featuring your selected images. Choose the largest size to print as a book and set the eye-catching photo album on your coffee table for your friends and family to peruse.

    Slide Show

    • Delight your guests with a silly portrait.

      Perhaps the easiest and most immediate way to present your family's portraits in a fresh way is to display them in a digital frame. You can find these frames in various sizes in drugstore chains as well as large department stores. They are simple, sleek and will hold a large quantity of photos that can be presented like a slide show, with you controlling the speed at which the pictures change. Update your digital presentation with the most current photos and hang it on an unexpected wall, such as in the common bathroom or kitchen.

    Pop Art

    • Andy Warhol is mostly known for his giant prints of Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe portraits in neon colors. You can create the same effect by selecting the most outlandish, silly photo and having it professionally enlarged. Take your pop art to the next level by having the portrait colorized using a digital photo program.

    Mural Frame

    • Dedicate an area of a room to the person featured in the portrait and paint a small and simple mural to frame the image. Paint a solid black square, larger than the picture, and stencil white letters of the subject's name, or apply inked stamps of objects that are relevant to the person's interests such as flowers or shoes. You can also paint the square a light color and ask the subject to scribble down random thoughts with a marker and hang the image in the center.

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