Getting your own art onto The Frame.
Everything we learned building an app that talks to Art Mode, written down. How the TV treats your files, what each upload route does to them, and the settings that decide whether a picture fills the screen or sits in a border.
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How to upload your own photos to Samsung The Frame
Three ways to get your own pictures into Art Mode on The Frame: the SmartThings app, a USB stick, and your PC over the network. What each one does to your image, and which one to pick.
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The Frame art size and format: 3840 by 2160, and why one pixel matters
The exact size, aspect ratio, file format and colour settings for artwork on Samsung The Frame, and what the TV does to a file that does not match.
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How to put your own custom art on The Frame
Making and uploading custom artwork for Samsung The Frame, from a design in Canva, Photoshop, Affinity or Procreate to a file the TV shows edge to edge.
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How to put AI generated art on The Frame
Getting Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion or Nano Banana output onto Samsung The Frame in 4K, with the right aspect ratio, upscaling and prompt habits.
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How to turn off the matte and show art edge to edge
Why Samsung The Frame puts a border around your artwork, how to remove it, and the one thing that makes the no matte option appear at all.
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Where to get free art for The Frame, in 4K and legally
Museum open access collections, public domain archives and free photography libraries that give you high resolution art for Samsung The Frame with no subscription.
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How to change The Frame's art automatically every day
Setting up a slideshow or a daily rotation of your own artwork on Samsung The Frame, including what the built in slideshow does and does not do.
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How to delete art and free up storage on The Frame
Seeing what is actually stored on Samsung The Frame, deleting artwork you no longer want, clearing duplicates, and what to do when the TV says storage is full.
Your images, your TV, your PC. Nothing in between.
Download the free version, put one image on your Frame, and see whether the way it fills the screen is what you were missing.