Here at Furman, students have free, unlimited printing at the library. Because of this wonderful feature of my campus, I do not have a printer. Because I do not have a printer, I do not have the luxury of color printing. In trying to print out pictures to frame for my apartment, I found myself in a sticky dilemma. Pay money for quality, color pictures, or be cheap and look it by hanging grainy, black and white pictures printed on thin letter paper.
Needless to say, I went with the latter.
And it looks awesome!
I chose pictures that, based on the lighting of the photos, would look like the black and white was an artistic effect, not a low-def byproduct of our printers' inability to print anything outside the confines of Times New Roman. Anyway it worked, and now my apartment looks classier than anything the crazy expensive printing center down the road could have provided.
So basically all I did was mess with the settings on the computer to make sure the images came out the right size (I had 3x5 brushed silver frames from Walmart), and I made sure to buy frames that looked pretty simple and nice so as to polish off the illusion that these were quality photo prints. It turns out pictures look a lot nicer behind glass and framed.
Here's the creative catch (if the previously said wasn't quite creative enough for you): I printed images to represent each roommate's hometown! There are three of us, and we are each conveniently from different cities. Each of our cities are also conveniently included in the portfolio of a certain photographer whose name I cannot remember for the life of me. One day I will figure it out and put a link, but until then I did not take nor do I own the rights to these photos. But thanks to whomever took them. Because they're fantastic!
So I framed them, and then I wrote the name of each city on the glass for a nice effect. And Voila!
Until your time again finds mine,
Julia
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