Category: Artwork Tools Category

There is an online program that allows you to upload your painting and see what it will look like on a wall.

There are several room scenes available for you to try.

By taking a screenshot of (or saving the result, you can let people see what your artwork will look like on a wall.

Example. Here is one of my abstract paintings:

Here is what it would look like on a wall:

 

The online program can be found at Pictorem.com. Choose the Tools menu item and then Your Photo on Wall. Or go here: https://www.pictorem.com/checkprintwall.html

There are many wall scenes to choose from:

You can choose:

• From a variety of wall scenes
• The color of the wall
• The frame you want around the image
• The size of the canvas

At Pictorem, you can buy prints by uploading an image and ordering the type and size of print that you want. Pictorem can also convert your image into a jigsaw puzzle.

You can also upload a reference photo to see if you’ll like it once your paint it.

Check out Pictorem.com

 

 

 

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These instructions will help you enlarge or reduce your reference image. You can then transfer the image onto your painting surface or just determine the correct placement of each element of your creation.

These step-by-step instructions are for Windows but they might work with other operating systems, too. You can use this method to enlarge or reduce a reference photo to make a template for your artwork.

Scan in the image into your computer or choose a copyright-free image that is already on your computer:

If you don’t want to use a lot of ink for the final printout, follow the instructions in the article “How to Create an Outline of an Image“.

If You Need to Crop Your Image, Do This:

Use Either Paint or Paint.net

Now open the original image or the outline of the image in the free paint or free paint.net program. (If you don’t have either of these programs, search online for “free paint.net” and download/install it. But search your computer first for the free paint program.)

If you want to crop the image because you only need part of it, now is the time to do that.

Put the Image into a Word Program

Copy the image (or the outline of the image) into your clipboard using the Control-c keys at the same time. Or by right-clicking on the image and choosing Copy.

Open a Word document and paste (Control-v keys) the image into it.

Export it to a pdf file where the image can be enlarged using the pdf’s Poster feature.

Enlarging the Image

Open the pdf file:

Choose “File” and then choose “Print” but don’t print it yet.

See the print pop up box.

Choose the “Poster” button:

(Optional step) Check the “Cut Marks” box. This will put little crosses on the printed pages where they can be trimmed with a scissors:

 

Change the Tile Scale to a larger or smaller number – whatever number might give you the  printed size you want. If you click twice on the Cut Marks box, you will be shown how many pages will print when enlarging your image:

 

Choose Landscape or Portrait and Print. The result may print on more than one sheet of paper, depending on what Tile Scale number you chose.

Compare the size of the printout with the paint surface you want to create that image on. If it is too small or large, put in a different Tile Scale number until you produce the size you need.

Trim the sheets and tape them together to make one large page.

Transferring the Enlarged or Reduced Image to Your Painting Surface

Tape the top of the image to your painting surface (canvas, board, wall, etc.).

Using tracing paper, trace the image onto your painting surface. Alternately, you can cut around the main element of the image and trace around it on your painting surface.

If you get stuck on any of these steps, just contact me and I will help.

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Take a picture and load it onto your computer or scan the image into your computer or use a Pixabay image.

Make a copy of the image to experiment with and put the original in a folder for safe keeping.

Open the copy of your image in the free paint.net program:

 

Select the Effects tab.  In the dropdown menu, select Stylize.  Then select the Outline option from the Stylize pop out menu:

 

Adjust the intensity to the desired effect. When ready, click [OK]:

 

Save as the outline of your image from the File tab at the top of the screen:

 

Click [OK] to the next box. (Save Configuration box):

 

Your outline is on your computer ready for you to print it out or whatever.