Lighting & Placement Guide
Light is half the picture.
Cloud Canvas doesn't glow. It reflects the light in your room, exactly the way a printed photograph does. So where you put it, and the light it sits in, shapes everything you see. Here's how to find its spot.
The idea
It reads the room.
Most digital frames are backlit. They produce their own light and ask for your attention. Cloud Canvas was built the other way around. There's no backlight and no blue light, which is why it can render 16 million colors with the depth of a real print instead of the flat glow of a screen.
The trade is simple and worth knowing: a print needs light to be seen, and so does this. Give it good light and the color comes alive. Put it in a dark corner and it quiets down, the same way a framed photo would. Nothing's wrong. It's just doing what a print does.
See it for yourself
Dim the room.
Drag the light up and down. Watch the same image hold its shape while the color shifts with the room, and notice it never goes dark, even at the bottom.
Bright daylight
Full depth and color. This is where Cloud Canvas looks its best.
Finding the light
Where it looks its best.
Natural daylight is its happy place. A well-lit living room, a spot that catches morning light, a shelf near a window. These are where the tonal range and color depth really show.
Steer away from the room's darkest corner. If a spot stays dim through most of the day, the image will read muted there, and you'll be looking at less than it can do. When you're choosing between two walls, choose the brighter one.
A good test before you commit: hold a printed photo where you're thinking of hanging it. If the print looks rich and clear there, Cloud Canvas will too. If the print looks flat and grey, keep looking.
Room by room
Made to live close to you.
At 10 inches, Cloud Canvas isn't meant to loom across a room. It's meant to sit within arm's reach of your day. A few places it earns its keep.
Living room
The shelf that catches light
On a mantle or open shelving where the room's daylight lands. The piece everyone notices, swapped the moment you want the space to feel new.
Bedside
First thing, last thing
On the nightstand, propped on its kickstand. A photo you love to wake up to, with no glow keeping you up at night.
Kitchen
Where the day starts
On the counter in the morning light. Family photos and bright prints, holding their own between the coffee and the rush.
Desk & studio
Within reach all day
Beside the desk where you actually sit. Cordless, so it goes wherever the good light is without hunting for an outlet.
Two ways to set it down
Wall or surface. Your call.
On the wall
Hang it level, once.
Lift away the magnetic outer frame first, then it's out of the way while you mount. The included cleat has a built-in level, so you mark the spot, tap two nails flush, and hang.
Set the magnetic frame back on and you're done. No anchors, no second person holding it crooked.
On a surface
Prop it anywhere.
The detachable kickstand clicks onto the back and holds it at a steady angle on any flat surface. Shelf, nightstand, desk, counter.
It comes off and goes back on whenever you want to move from a surface to the wall, or chase a sunnier spot.
A note for the bedroom
It won't light up your room at night.
Cloud Canvas was built on calm-technology principles. No glow, no blue light, no pulsing dot in the dark. And because the last image stays on screen even with zero battery, your wall never goes blank. It's simply there, the way a framed print is there, asking nothing of you.
Found its spot?
Then the only thing left is to fill it. Move it, swap it, change your mind as often as you like. A wall is never finished, and neither is this.