Fotoshades is the essence of simplicity and versility.  It is easy to change the pictures, coverings or wraps on your Fotoshade in minutes. This is the perfiect DIY shade and to custom make it to fit you room.  These pages explains how easy it is to customize your own lampshade.     Here you can see how easy  it is to design your own lampshade and display pictures quickly. Click on web pages to the left for more information on ways to design you shade.  Below are instructions on how easy it is to mount or change pictures on the shade. Here is the EASY WAY to mount and change pictures on the shade. Fitting pictures on the shade.  How to mount multiple pictures on the shade at one time, quickly and easily.  See instructions below.  The pictures on the shade to the left were made with a digital camera and  printed on a home computer printer on overhead projector film.  See Fotos page for more information on  how to source pictures. To place pictures on the shade, wrap the clear pane around the shade, as shown above.  You will need a picture that has been printed on clear film or a Transparency and some clear Scotch Tape to be attach to the top of the picture.  To attach the tape to the top of the picture, fold the tape over where it is attached to both sides of the picture leaving about an inch sticking up from the picture.  The tape will be used to position the picture on the shade and to retreive the picture if you want to change pictures. Here is the picture with the tab taped to the top, ready to be slid onto the shade. Slide the picture between the shade and the outer clear pane. Set the shade up and position the picture on the shade using the tape tab.  It only takes minutes from the time a picture is taken and mounted on the shade.  Children's school art work can be scanned into the computer and printed out and placed on the shade.  This is better than putting it on the refrigerator. Cool Room from Cosmo Girl Magazine To the left is part of the Cool Room page in the October issue of Cosmo Girl magazine that shows the Fotoshades.  It is a DIY shade becasue it is easy to put pictures on the shade.  Once you buy the shade, everything else you can find at local stores and supply yourself.  Fotoshades would like to thank COSMO GIRL magazine for showing the Fotoshades lampshade in their magazine.