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How to make your home picture
perfect
Pictures are a part of every household, but now you can take them beyond the refrigerator door or lackluster frame to create unique home accessories and artwork.
"As a designer on TLC's 'Trading Spaces,' my challenge is to think of creative, quick and inexpensive ways to add a bit of personality to people's houses," said Genevieve Gorder. "My favorite technique involves the use of personal photographs."
Using existing pictures or digital media and the Kodak Picture Maker, Gorder offers easy, stylish and inexpensive ideas to spruce up the home for less than $100:
+ Turn one picture into an instant collection. Crop and enlarge specific features of one photograph to create a collection of three or four 8-by-10-inch pictures. For example, use close-ups of different features of a child such as the hands, feet and eyes. Frame the enlarged photos identically and place together. The result is a collection of framed pictures positioned on a central wall or above a mantle.
+ Transform your favorite vacation shot into an antique. Select a favorite landscape picture from a honeymoon or family trip. Simply scan in the picture with the Kodak Picture Maker, change the color to sepia (a brown hue) and enlarge the print. Sepia turns a modern landscape into a picture that looks like it belonged to generations past. Take an antique gold frame and, using a brush, hit the surface in a staccato-like fashion, dabbing small amounts of black paint around the frame and in the corners. Use a firm hand and continually move your wrist to vary the pattern. With this process, you can create an aged look resulting in an antique accessory with a personal touch.
+ Create a family photo gallery. Showcase members of your family by using black-and-white photography to create a contemporary art gallery look right inside your home. In addition, black-and-white pictures provide a dramatic contrast against a deeply colored wall such as crimson or chocolate brown. Select a favorite color photo and re-create it in black and white with the Kodak Picture Maker. Frame the picture with 5-inch white matting and a simple frame to make the photo really pop from the wall.
Available at photo specialty outlets, supermarkets, pharmacies and retail locations throughout the country, the Kodak Picture Maker is a self-service kiosk that allows consumers to enhance, crop, enlarge and reprint existing pictures or digital media in less than five minutes for $5 to $7 per print. For more step-by-step tips from Gorder, go to the Web site at www.kodak.com/go/picture maker.
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