How to Display Fine Art on a Samsung Frame TV

The Samsung Frame is at its best showing real art — but a great result depends on a few simple things. Here is everything you need to know to make a museum masterpiece look like it belongs on your wall.

Use a high-resolution file

The Frame's Art Mode displays at 4K (3840 × 2160). A small or low-quality image will look soft and pixelated at that size. Every Everframe download includes a true 4K master and a Frame-TV-ready crop, so the detail holds up across the whole screen. If you supply your own image, aim for at least 3840 pixels on the long edge.

Match the aspect ratio

The Frame is a 16:9 rectangle. Many famous paintings are not — they can be square, tall, or a different landscape ratio. You have two good options: display the artwork centred with a coloured mat around it (Art Mode's built-in mattes do this elegantly), or use a version cropped to fill the 16:9 frame. Everframe supplies both a clean full-artwork file and a Frame-optimised crop for exactly this reason.

Get the file onto the TV

Open the SmartThings app on your phone, select your Frame, and upload the image to your personal Art Mode collection. From there you can set it as the active artwork, adjust the mat colour and style, and choose how the image fills the screen.

Choose a mat and bezel

A wide mat in a warm off-white makes almost any painting feel like a framed gallery print, and it solves the aspect-ratio problem at the same time. Pair it with one of Samsung's magnetic bezels — a classic wood or a slim black frame — and the illusion is complete.

Tune the brightness

Art Mode's motion and brightness sensors adjust the picture to the light in your room. Leave them on: a painting that dims gently in the evening reads far more like a real object than a screen blazing at full backlight.

Once it is set up, the effect is genuinely convincing. Browse the full Everframe collection of 100 remastered masterpieces, or start with the complete collection and rotate a new one onto your wall whenever the mood takes you.