Hang your own photos in picture frames and canvases

Step by step

1. 1

   Add a frame or canvas

   In the furniture panel, search picture frame or canvas (or open the Picture Frames & Wall Art section). Pick a size: Picture Frame 8×10″ up to 24×36″ and its 36×24″ landscape twin, or a canvas (24×36″, 36×24″, 30×30″). A frame's size is the outside of the frame: the photo size plus a 1″ moulding each side. Tap the tile, then Add. The note says …: tap a wall to place it; tap the wall it hangs on.

   

2. 2

   Select it and tap Choose photo

   Tap the frame to open its panel. The first row of controls is just for frames and canvases: - Choose photo (it reads Change photo once a photo is in, with a thumbnail). - Landscape | Portrait: hang it wider than tall or taller than wide. The photo stays upright and is re-cropped to fit; the frame stays centred at the same height. (A square canvas has no Landscape / Portrait.) - Tilt: the arrows turn it 5° at a time flat against the wall, the box takes any angle from −180° to 180°, and 0°, 45°, 90° are one tap. - Other side: hang it on the other face of the same wall, in the room next door or on the outside of the house. Mount sets how high it hangs, Color is the frame colour (a canvas's sides), and the size boxes change its width and height.

   

3. 3

   Upload or pick a photo

   Choose a photo opens your Picture Gallery. Tap a photo to put it in this frame, or tap Upload photo to add a new one from your computer, phone or tablet (JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB; iPhone HEIC photos work in the iPhone and iPad app and in Safari). The photo fills the frame's opening, cropped to fit rather than stretched, and shows on the wall in 3D. Remove photo from this frame puts the plain print back. On the 2D plan a frame is drawn as a thin line on its wall; the photo itself shows in 3D.

   

4. 4

   Check the frame's panel

   Once a photo is in, the frame's first button reads Change photo with a small thumbnail of the photo, so you can tell at a glance which picture hangs where. Tap it to swap the photo or remove it. Landscape | Portrait re-crops the same photo when you turn the frame.

   

5. 5

   See it on the wall in 3D

   Open View in 3D and look at the wall, or use Walk through (the footsteps button) and stand in the room. The photo fills the frame's opening, cropped to the frame's shape rather than stretched. Here a 36×24″ frame hangs over a queen bed at the default Mount of 3′ 8″.

   

6. 6

   Manage your photos in the Picture Gallery

   To upload several photos first, or delete some, open the gallery on its own: on a computer, the Materials tab at the top of the left panel → Picture Gallery (Your photos for picture frames); on a phone, the Materials button → Picture Gallery tab. Upload there, then select each frame and Choose photo. Deleting a photo asks first (Delete this photo? Frames showing it go blank.) and removes it from every frame that used it. You can keep up to 200 photos.

   

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