2torial #0460: Learn2 Hang a Picture (Continued) Hang the picture Your picture should now be ready for installation. Pick it up carefully by the sides of the picture frame, and check to see that the wire hangs outward, looped toward the wall. Put the picture up higher than it will go, and then let it down gently until the hook or nail catches the loop of wire. Adjust the picture slightly until it comes to rest evenly on the hook. The wire should be centered as much as possible and the picture should hang straight down. You may want to use a level on the top of the frame as a guide, or look at where the wall meets the ceiling and bring the top frame parallel to it. Be sure the sides hang straight up and down, too. Some ceilings may be crooked. Not straight? Pictures can be adjusted up and down by tightening or loosening the wire (now aren't you glad you left extra wire?). Slides at the back of metal frames make this easy. Adjusting pictures side to side is more difficult. Use a second nail level with the first, driven into the wall at twice the distance you want to move the picture. The center of the picture hanging on both nails will be dead center between the two. If this changes the vertical alignment, you may need to adjust the slack of the wire once more. As a last resort you may have to remove the nail and hammer it in again (no one should expect to be perfect the first time out). The good news is that the new place for the nail is exactly the same distance in the same direction that the picture needs to go. For example, if the picture needs to go 1/4 inch up and 1/2 inch to the right, then measure exactly 1/4 inch up and 1/2 inch to the right from the first nail hole, and try again.   -end-   Learn More! or All steps at once (printable version)