{"id":24,"date":"2017-06-22T19:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionbedding.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:11:23","slug":"how-to-create-photo-products-worry-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionbedding.com\/blog\/how-to-create-photo-products-worry-free","title":{"rendered":"How To Create Photo Products Worry Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mondrian style collage photo blanket with family pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nowadays, personalizing home decor is extremely popular.\u00a0 People want their homes to be unique and display things they find special.\u00a0 One of the best ways to make a home unique is to have personal photos displayed on decor<\/a> such as blankets in a living room or bedroom.\u00a0 For example, young couples that love their dog will display a photo of Scruffy playing in the yard on a bedside rug.\u00a0 Or, grandparents will have a photo of all the grand kids at Christmas on a throw pillow on the bed.<\/p>\n

But for some people, decorating with personal photos can be difficult and they usually encounter two difficult questions: 1)\u00a0 How do I know my photo will look good on home decor?\u00a0 and 2)\u00a0 How can I customize my product to make my photo look even better?\u00a0 We’ve helped thousands of people decorate their home with these personal mementos and we’re happy to answer these questions, so read on!<\/p>\n

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Standard collage photo blanket with family pets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will my photo work on home decor?<\/h2>\n

Naturally, each customer’s project will be unique and so will their photos.\u00a0 One person will want their picture on small items like a 20″ x 20″ throw pillow, while someone else will want them on a 50″ x 60″ photo blanket to hang on a wall.\u00a0 There’s quite a difference in size there, so the same picture will not necessarily look good on both items.\u00a0 There are three main things to consider when choosing a photo for a photo product, and in 90% of cases the following guidelines will help ensure your picture will look good on a custom home decor product.<\/p>\n

Size of the photo<\/h3>\n

Size of the photo is a key factor in determining if it will look great on a custom home decor item.\u00a0 First, we recommend photos of 1 megabyte (MB) or greater in size<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is the quickest and most basic step in determining if your picture will work on a home decor product.\u00a0 Usually if it is this size it will be a good choice.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that there will be rare cases where this guideline does not apply.\u00a0 For example, a photo with a lot of people and background objects may be greater than 1 MB, but if the faces are already blurry, enlarging the picture on a home decor item will only make the blurriness more apparent.\u00a0 We want your photo product to look great just as much as you, so choose images that are clear and sharp in addition to the 1 MB size requirement.<\/p>\n

Quality of the photo<\/h3>\n

At VisionBedding, we see images on home decor all day every day.\u00a0 We know that the top factor in determining if your photo will look good when displayed on an item like a custom photo blanket<\/a> is the quality of the picture.\u00a0 When we talk quality, we mean the pixels per inch, also known as dots per inch (dpi).\u00a0 We recommend photos with 100 dpi or greater<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Not an expert photographer with a fancy camera?\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 These days, a lot of smartphones are already set from the factory to take photos of this high quality.\u00a0 On most devices you can check your photo quality by looking at the details of your photo on your camera, phone or tablet.<\/p>\n

The other plus with all the technology out there is that you can download simple photo editing apps to improve clarity, resolution and color for free.\u00a0 Be careful though, action shots can be great as gifts, but smartphone cameras are best used for still shots of faces.\u00a0 If you do happen to be a good photographer, action shots of athletes or pets really make great presents on photo products.<\/p>\n

Type of Image vs Size of Product<\/h3>\n

Usually people want to display their closest relatives, babies, or friends on a photo product- which are great ideas.\u00a0 But you must remember when choosing pictures that the type of image does matter and will depend on the chosen size of the product.<\/p>\n

In the example at the beginning of the article, there’s quite a difference in size between the throw pillow and the blanket.\u00a0 Because of this difference in decor item size, the same photo will not necessarily look good at full scale on both items.\u00a0 The image may be increased in size possibly 20 times greater than the original photo, depending on the product you choose.\u00a0 So if your photo is a close-up of your children’s faces, and you choose a large throw blanket for the couch, your children’s faces could be so large you cannot recognize them on the blanket.<\/p>\n

But, worry not.\u00a0 In this case, we recommend using some of the techniques listed below that we’ve acquired over the years to create fabulous photo products.<\/p>\n

How Can I Make My Photo Product Look Even Better?<\/h2>\n

Many people are not artists or designers, and they do not know how to make something awesome out of their photos.\u00a0 Actually, many people don’t realize they can do whatever they want with the photos!\u00a0\u00a0 No idea where to start and need some inspiration?\u00a0 Here are a few things we recommend trying out on a photo product.<\/p>\n

Techniques to a cool design<\/h3>\n

We offer custom photo products for almost all of our home decor items, but a photo blanket is one of the most popular so we’ll use that as an example.\u00a0 Think of the photo blanket as a blank white canvas.\u00a0 What kind of setting do you want your photo to take place in?\u00a0 Is your blanket a gift to your parents to remember that beach vacation you took this summer?\u00a0 On your blank canvas you can first choose an image of a tropical beach sunset as a backdrop.\u00a0 Or, knowing they’ll display this blanket in the living room which has a red and black theme, you could keep it more simple and choose a red color for the backdrop<\/a> to match the room.<\/p>\n

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Beach sunset background on blanket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, what about how you want your parents to feel each time they look at the blanket?\u00a0 You could make them laugh with text of an inside joke from the trip.\u00a0 Or you could simply write “Florida Family Vacation 2017″ in cursive font at the bottom.\u00a0 Your text can go anywhere on the blanket and in any font and color.\u00a0 Choose something that is really meaningful to capture their emotion each time they use the blanket.<\/p>\n

But what about making each photo stand out from the backdrop?\u00a0 You can put a simple black bold border around each photo.\u00a0 Or what about a border that looks like a Polaroid picture?\u00a0 This idea is one of our favorites as it really adds the feeling that these pictures were from special memories.<\/p>\n

To jump to another level of creativity you could get a design of multiple sandcastles on the beach and put each image inside the sandcastle!\u00a0 How great is that?\u00a0 The sky really is the limit with these custom photo products.<\/p>\n

As you are learning, you can choose a single photo or multiple photos for these products.\u00a0 You can adjust the size and shape of each picture to fit exactly how you’d like.\u00a0 You can scale pictures of faces to closer to the original image size like 8″ x 10”, but you can scale up photos of landscapes to much larger.\u00a0 However, keeping all these tips in mind, a professionally taken family photo with extremely high quality can be scaled to almost any product size.<\/p>\n

Additional Tips for Great Photo Products<\/h2>\n