Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this video I take you through the steps to achieving a wonderful Raspberry Pi photo frame. This is perfect for anyone looking to display their electronically stored pictures.
Full tutorial: pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-photo-frame
This project is pretty straightforward and won’t take you too long to be able to get it up and going. If you want to extend this further, I recommend taking a look at some pretty good designed frames that have been done in the past. If you have a 3D printer you will able to print your very own frame giving you a personalised good looking photo frame.
As you will probably notice I am using the official Pi touch screen. You can use just about any screen you can get your hands on. Just make sure you’re able to hook it up to the Raspberry Pi using the HDMI port, DSI or using a custom HAT on the GPIO pins.
The process of setting up the software is pretty easy. It involves disabling the screen blanking built into Raspbian and then installing a light image viewer package called feh.
If you want to simply just drag and drop images from your computer to the Pi, then be sure to check out the network attached storage tutorial. This is an easy way to manage which pictures you want to show and the ones that you don’t.
You will need to setup SSH to your Raspberry Pi photo frame as once it is in action you will no longer be able to control it. This is very important if you want to be able to make changes later on to either the slideshow program anything else on the Pi.
Hopefully by the end of the video you should have a fully working Raspberry Pi digital photo frame. If you do end up coming across any problems be sure to drop a comment below or over at pimylifeup.com.
In this video I take you through the steps to achieving a wonderful Raspberry Pi photo frame. This is perfect for anyone looking to display their electronically stored pictures.
Full tutorial: pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-photo-frame
This project is pretty straightforward and won’t take you too long to be able to get it up and going. If you want to extend this further, I recommend taking a look at some pretty good designed frames that have been done in the past. If you have a 3D printer you will able to print your very own frame giving you a personalised good looking photo frame.
As you will probably notice I am using the official Pi touch screen. You can use just about any screen you can get your hands on. Just make sure you’re able to hook it up to the Raspberry Pi using the HDMI port, DSI or using a custom HAT on the GPIO pins.
The process of setting up the software is pretty easy. It involves disabling the screen blanking built into Raspbian and then installing a light image viewer package called feh.
If you want to simply just drag and drop images from your computer to the Pi, then be sure to check out the network attached storage tutorial. This is an easy way to manage which pictures you want to show and the ones that you don’t.
You will need to setup SSH to your Raspberry Pi photo frame as once it is in action you will no longer be able to control it. This is very important if you want to be able to make changes later on to either the slideshow program anything else on the Pi.
Hopefully by the end of the video you should have a fully working Raspberry Pi digital photo frame. If you do end up coming across any problems be sure to drop a comment below or over at pimylifeup.com.
