Artwork guide
What makes a photograph print well, and what to do before you upload it.
Three things that matter
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Resolution
Bigger is better. The studio shows live DPI as you scale your image and warns you below 150. A photo straight off a phone is usually fine; a screenshot or a picture saved from social media often is not.
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Light
Print cannot recover detail that is not there. A slightly bright photo prints better than a slightly dark one, because shadows fill in on fabric and paper.
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Space around the subject
Leave room. Print areas are cropped to the shape of the object, and faces sitting near an edge can end up cut by a seam or a curve.
The safe margin
The dashed rectangle in the studio is the safe margin. Everything inside it will definitely print. Anything between the dashed line and the edge may be trimmed, wrapped around a seam, or lost under a case cut-out — that is normal for made-to-order printing and every maker allows for it.
Backgrounds should run past the edge. Faces, names and dates should stay inside the dashes.
File typesTo confirm
JPEG, PNG and HEIC all work. PNG keeps transparency, which is useful if you want the material colour to show through.
There is no file size limit that you are likely to hit — the studio resizes as it works and exports at the print size, not the upload size.
Try it with your own photo
Nothing is charged until you add a piece to the bag.