Creating a custom wall gallery can be very overwhelming. I admit, it used to give me heart palpitations. I would stare at all of the beautiful empty frames laying around my house and become paralyzed. I had the hardest time trying to decide what images to use. I would think I had it all figured out, order the prints, fill the frames, and then enthusiastically begin hanging them on the wall. Only then would I realize, “I should have ordered that one bigger” or “that one really would be better in black and white” or even “that one over there just doesn’t belong”. I found myself constantly obsessing over my wall gallery, moving this, switching that, adding a new one here, taking down another. It was exhausting.
Then one day, I said enough is enough! Let’s get this done and do it right! So I spent some time creating a layered photoshop template of all of the frames that I had, complete with my Kilm Beige wall color. I was able to pull images that I liked, add them to the frames, move things around and tweak it until it was just right. I was able to see how the colors all worked together, enlarge the images I wanted to emphasize, and then order my prints with confidence.
Here is a screen shot of the template in action. As you can see, I had a ton of frames 🙂 Simply hide the ones you do not want to use, copy them to add more of a certain size, change the wall color, change the frame color, keep the mats or hide them.
You can view the video tutorial here:
And for a little inspiration, a few images of how I’ve displayed some of the images in my home.
What a great idea! I just downloaded my template. Thanks for sharing!
Great write up! I LOVE displaying my work in our home. In fact, I just blogged about it this morning…and here's an image of my favorite display. 🙂
http://jessecabellemare.com/artwork-display-inspi…
Cheers,
Jesseca
Thank you so much! I liked your FB page.
I just uploaded a video tutorial showing how to use the template on my blog. 🙂
http://julianevansphotography.com/2012/04/10/free…
Such a great post and thank you for sharing!!!! <3
how awesome is this!!! thanks, Juli…and for the template too – my house needs some serious help and your walls are super inspiring!
The next best thing to have someone come over and do my walls for me is to use these templates myself! Awesome information here, Juli! Thanks for sharing!
This is awesome!!! Thank you so much for this!!!
Does anybody know if these measurements happen to be for the Pottery Barn gallery frames? This is a genius idea! Thanks so much for sharing!
Mandy, YES! They are the pottery barn frames 😉
What a great way to plan a wall space! Thanks for sharing with us!
Juli, thank you very much!!
I’m from México, and I downloaded the template.
I´ll show you my final work!!
Thank you!!!!!! 😀
Thank you Julian! I just stumbled on your youtube tutorial.. Unfortunately I am not able to open the facebook link, is there a new link? Thanks again for sharing!
I am unable to open the facebook link, it says the page can not be found. Is there a new link? I’d love to be able to use this tutorial! Thanks Again!
I am unable to open the facebook link, it it still available? Is there a new link? I’d love to be able to use this tutorial!
I’d love to view the tutorial but the link isn’t available anymore. Is the tutorial available elsewhere? Thanks!
I found your fb page but don’t see the download. Is it still available?
Is the download still available?
This is exactly what I have been looking for and needing but I too cannot find the template 🙁 Is there a new link?
Here is the updated link to download the FREE TEMPLATE! Enjoy!
http://julianevansphotography.com/freebies/
Hi
This is great, would you mind sharing that link again? The one above doesn’t work 🙂 Huge thanks
Hi, This is great content. Helpful even after many years. I would like to know how to incorporate bigger size frames that are not in the template