6 Unique Ways to Display Family Photos in Your Home at BLVD l Loudoun Station

If you want to show off photos of your family in your home at BLVD l Loudoun Station, you may be looking for ways that are more unique than the traditional frames. Here are a few fun and creative ways to display family photos anywhere in the home.

  1. Create a Polaroid wall. Display everyone’s favorite retro photos with a wall of Polaroids. Simply line them up in a square, a circle or even a heart shape — no frame required.
  2. Hang them from wires. Attach thin wires to your wall using small hooks and hang your photos from matching binder clips.
  3. Use a pants hanger. If you have a few wooden, clamp-style pant hangers hanging in your closet, use them to display larger photos and prints.
  4. Turn them into coasters. If you’re completely out of wall (and shelf) space, turn your family photos into coasters. Many websites offer personalized coasters and other types of accessories at affordable prices.
  5. Use clipboards. Visit your local office supply store and purchase a few classic wooden clipboards. Simply clip your photos to the board, hang it from the wall, or prop it up on a shelf.
  6. Make a chalkboard gallery wall. If you have a large chalkboard in your home, turn it into a gallery wall by drawing your own frames in chalk around your favorite family photos.

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Five Camera Apps for Smartphones

Thanks to the latest cutting-edge technology, our phones are becoming so influential in our lives, they can now do almost anything. Today, your phone can take the place of your laptop, calculator, MP3 player, and even camera. In fact, phones can take such great pictures nowadays, there's really no need to carry around an extra digital camera. Take your pictures to the next level with these camera apps for your phone. 

Snapseed
With just a few taps on your phone you can improve the quality of your picture with Snapseed. Instead of running your picture through multiple editing programs, this one app will create high quality photos. 

Instagram
Instagram lets you share pictures with your friends and followers. Every picture can be edited to have a fun filter to change the look of the picture. Tag each picture with a caption and keywords so people can search for your pictures, not just your friends. 

Camera Art FX
Create works of art instead of just normal pictures with all the special effects available with Camera Art FX. Watch in real time as a personal sketch artist in your phone creates pictures that resemble cartoons, neon lights, vintage photos, silent films, and more. 

Photosynth
There's no need to take group pictures in small segments anymore. Photosynth allows you to take panoramic pictures so you can get your entire party in one picture seamlessly. 

Camera+
Basically a more high tech version of the original camera on your phone. Camera+ lets you tap to adjust focus and exposure. There's even a stability feature to make pictures less shaky. After you take the picture you can adjust with filters and more. 

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