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How to hang and align pictures is a set of guidelines based on aesthetics to give a foundational understanding of the best rules to adhere to when hanging and aligning pictures on a wall. The rules are there to be broken, so where you disagree, you may obviously do your own thing, but these are a nice set of failsafe