{"id":224,"date":"2014-12-29T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twomakeahome.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:57:05","slug":"how-to-make-inexpensive-lego-wall-art-for-a-boys-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twomakeahome.com\/how-to-make-inexpensive-lego-wall-art-for-a-boys-room\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Inexpensive LEGO Wall Art for A Boy’s Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, ok. I know what you’re thinking. I don’t normally do decorating projects – I usually leave that kind of thing up to Jess. But this one involved\u00a0 Lego’s! I’m not sure it even counts as decorating. This was a fun project that we were able to get our son involved in and we completed it without any sophisticated software or equipment for under $7!<\/p>\n

Lately, we’ve been working on our oldest son’s room. We wanted to personalize it with his interests without going over-the-top “kiddy”. In other words, do something we could all live with. He loves Lego’s, so we wanted to incorporate that interest into his room somehow. We finally came up with some Lego wall art that was an easy DIY<\/a> project and allowed him to get involved in the project too. The best part about this project is that anyone can do it and customize it with your little guy’s or girl’s favorite Lego mini-figures.<\/p>\n

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Step 1 – Play with Legos, errr… Get the Pictures<\/h1>\n

We started by picking out a few of his favorite mini-figures and posed them on a simple backdrop. The backdrop was simply a sheet of white printer paper taped in place to provide a continuous white background. It was a cloudy, gloomy day so we set it in a window sill to capture as much natural light as possible.<\/p>\n

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I took quite a few pictures at close range (about 4-5″) with my iPhone. I kept 5 of the best shots, which you can see below.<\/p>\n

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Step 2 – Photo Editing<\/h1>\n

Before downloading them from my phone, I converted the images to black and white then messed around with the contrast and a few other settings until the background was completely white.<\/p>\n

Once I downloaded them from my phone, I used GIMP<\/a> (a free graphics software similar to Photoshop) to create a 24″ x 54″ montage of the black and white images. I am not a GIMP expert, so I kind of fumbled my way through. The general steps I followed are below. There are a lot of excellent\u00a0 tutorials out on the web to help you with each one, so I won’t cover them in detail.<\/p>\n