Framio frames one open-access artwork for whatever screen you want to live with it on — a TV, a phone, a tablet, a desktop — and embeds the artist, museum, and license inside every file it makes. Credit travels with the image.
In Frame Studio (and in a collection's Bundle export) pick a device, then a framing style:
| Preset | Output | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| The Frame TV | your saved Frame size (4K, or FHD on the 32″) · 16:9 | Samsung The Frame |
| Phone wallpaper | 1320 × 2868 · portrait | iPhone Pro Max — downscales to any modern phone |
| Tablet · portrait | 2048 × 2732 | iPad Pro 12.9″ |
| Tablet · landscape | 2732 × 2048 | iPad Pro 12.9″, on its side |
| Desktop · 4K | 3840 × 2160 · 16:9 | any 16:9 monitor |
Anything smaller than a reference device downscales cleanly, so one export covers a whole category.
Every screen has a different shape, so a portrait phone can't show a wide landscape whole without either bars or a crop. In Smart Crop mode, press Auto-crop to the focus: Framio samples the image for visual energy — edges, saturation, and faces — and centres the crop on the busiest, most compositionally important region for that aspect ratio. It's a starting point, not a verdict — drag, pinch, or scroll to adjust, and the preview is exactly what exports.
Prefer the whole work uncropped? Use Museum Mat, Floating Canvas, or Blur Extend — they letterbox the piece instead of cropping it.
Every exported JPEG carries, in standard metadata that photo apps and operating systems read:
- EXIF — image description (title · artist · year), artist, copyright / license line with the source link, and "Framio" as the software.
- XMP — Dublin Core title, creator, rights, and source; the artwork's
visual description (the same open description used for accessibility);
and a machine-readable CC0 statement
(
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) for open-access works. - A plain-text comment so even a bare
stringson the file shows the credit.
Your own uploaded images get only the title you gave them — Framio never stamps a public-domain or CC0 claim on work that isn't open access, and only open-access museum works are exportable in the first place.
You can confirm any export with, e.g., exiftool framio-*.jpg.
- The Frame TV — load the file via the SmartThings app or a USB stick. See FRAME-TV.md for the step-by-step.
- iPhone / iPad — Save the file to Photos, then set it as your wallpaper (Settings → Wallpaper, or long-press the lock screen).
- Desktop — set it as your wallpaper the usual way for your OS.
A note on wallpapers and metadata. The file you save to Photos keeps its embedded credit. But when iOS (and some desktops) set an image as wallpaper, they generate a cropped derivative that does not carry the original metadata. So keep the exported file itself if you want the credit to travel — the wallpaper is a copy, the file is the record.