Wall MuseTall art for a sideways Frame
Some Frames hang sideways. A narrow stretch of wall, a stairwell, the end of a hallway: turn the TV ninety degrees and it becomes a tall canvas. Until now Wall Muse painted everything wide. The 1.1 update fixes that.
Wide or tall
Every piece now has an orientation. When you paint with words you choose wide or tall before the first brushstroke, and the picture is composed for that shape from the start, not cropped into it afterwards. A cypress, a lighthouse, a figure standing in a doorway: subjects that always wanted to be tall finally get to be.
Photographs and the masters get the same choice. A portrait scan from the vaults hangs as a portrait. Your own photograph of a waterfall keeps its height.
Tell the app which way your Frame hangs
Open your Frame in Wall Muse and mark it as hanging sideways. That is the whole setup. From then on the app knows the TV's tall side is up, and it prepares every piece accordingly.
A tall piece hangs upright, filling the Frame edge to edge. A wide piece hangs between two bands, the way a landscape sits on a tall wall in a gallery, with the matte colour above and below it. Nothing is stretched and nothing is cut off. The Frame's own Art Mode matte still applies around the outside if you use one.
A Frame that hangs the usual way is untouched by any of this. Tall pieces on a wide Frame hang between two bands too, side by side, so a portrait never gets squashed into a landscape.
This way up
Rotation is the kind of setting that is easy to get backwards, and the wrong guess means every piece arrives upside down. So the sideways switch comes with a test card. Send it and the Frame shows a plain canvas with the words THIS WAY UP and an arrow. If the arrow points at the ceiling, the setting is right. If it does not, flip the switch and send the card again.
It takes ten seconds and it means you never have to look at a sideways harbour.
Where it shows up
- In the studio, a wide-or-tall choice next to the style picker.
- In Find the frame, when hanging a photo, the crop frame turns tall when the piece is tall.
- In the masters, portraits and tall prints are marked, and hang the right way on every Frame.
- In each Frame's settings, the sideways switch and its test card.
The update is free, and every piece you already painted stays exactly as it was. If you have a sideways Frame we would love to see what you hang on it: @wallmuse.tv.
