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Framing photos

Hestia frames every photo by itself, around the people in it. To change one:

• On the wall: drag the photo to move it, and pinch or use the zoom meter to zoom. The wall saves it and holds that photo while you work.
• In Settings → Photos: pick a photo, then drag to move it and pinch or scroll to zoom. The preview is the wall's photo tile, tall for portrait photos and wide for landscape ones; Frame swaps them. Center cross and Thirds show guides.

Accept keeps a photo, Reject takes it off the wall (you can bring it back from Rejected). Less, Normal and More set how often it comes up. Under Album & settings you can set how long each photo stays and choose to show accepted photos only.

Keyboard in Settings: arrows nudge, + / − zoom, Enter accepts, Delete rejects, Space skips.

More guides

• A TV or any screen with a web browser
  Smart TVs, Fire TV, monitors with a computer: pair once with a code.
• Chromecast and Google TV
  What works today, and the cast button that is on its way.
• An iPad or Android tablet
  Add it to the home screen, pair it, and keep it awake.
• A Raspberry Pi on a monitor
  A Pi 3 or newer opening the wall full screen on every start.
• Google Calendar
  Show your Google calendars and add events from the wall.
• Apple Calendar and other calendar links
  iCloud, school and team calendars by their iCal address.
• An iCloud shared album
  A live album: photos added to it appear on the wall by themselves.
• Photos from Google Photos
  Pick photos in Google Photos and Hestia copies them to your wall.