Welcome to our Make Mine Beautiful Party! Every Friday you can link up your Decorating posts and share with others your beautiful homes!

Update: I apologize to Polly from Make Mine Beautiful Blog, I didn’t realize there was a blog with this name. I will be changing the name of the Linky Party next week, but of course, you can still link up your decorating posts.

I have an extra special treat for you today, Melissa from The Inspired Room is here to share with us.

Personalized Art from Photos

I enjoy creating a home that is personal and meaningful to me and my family. I don’t like to decorate with a lot of random things and so I love finding ways to incorporate special memories through artwork. The other day I had a blank wall to fill and I really wanted it to be filled with reminders of our summer vacations at the beach. I looked through my options and realized I didn’t seem to have the kind of art I was hoping for.

Fortunately, I had photographs. I intended to just frame them as they were, when I had a little idea! Why not put them through my Flickr editing tools and see if I could make a little art out of a standard photograph?

You could do something similar to this with any photo editing tool. I’m definitely not skilled in photography or editing so any thing I do has to be very easy! In this case, the option to edit a photo like I did comes along with the premium package I pay for each year. It is simple and I use it a lot, so it is worth the small annual fee. The tool I used on Flickr is under effects and it is called “HDR-ish.”

I played around a little bit and gave my photos a little artistic boost! A few tweaks later, I was pretty pleased with myself. It is a subtle change but you would swear you are looking at a small painting or drawing instead of a photo. Just what I was hoping for!

Then I printed them out on my home printer, put them in a frame and voila, instant beach trip art!

Here is what they look like:

Even if you don’t want to change your photos to look like art, simply framing a few fun shots from your vacations can give you art for your walls and memories you can enjoy every day!

For more ideas, come visit me at The Inspired Room!

Wow! Isn’t that cool? Thanks so much Melissa for sharing!

And be sure to head on over to HoosierHomemade today! We are having the DadsRock Giveaway Bash with 22 giveaways!

Now it’s your turn to help us “Make Mine Beautiful.”

 

Tags: Decorating

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