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A set of ten inch glass photo tiles in a parent memories layout. The larger size, which old photographs will only sometimes take.
An 8 inch tile forgives a mediocre scan. This one does not. A flatbed scan at good resolution looks excellent at ten inches; a phone snapshot of a print under a ceiling light looks exactly like what it is. Check what you actually have before choosing this size.
Where the originals are good, and many prints from the sixties and seventies are sharper than people expect, ten inches shows the room, the clothes and the other people in the frame rather than only the face. For the one photograph that exists of a grandparent at that age, that is worth the larger tile.
The traditional answer is to enlarge one old photograph, which makes that image definitive. Six tiles hold a wedding, a kitchen, a holiday and a bad haircut, which between them say more about a person than any single picture chosen on their behalf.
Your photograph is UV printed on the reverse of the glass. Engraving renders an image in white frosting and throws away the warm cast of a 1970s print, the colour of a dress, the particular yellow of an old snapshot. Printing keeps all of it, including the age of the picture. A magnetic mount holds it, so nothing is drilled.
Ten inches tests the source harder than eight does. A good flat scan of a sharp print will take it; a photograph of a print taken on a phone at an angle will not, and no amount of work at our end will put back what was never captured.
Scan flat, square on and at the highest setting the scanner offers, and send that rather than a reduced copy. Colour Enhancement is available at $1.99 per image.
What the larger size gains is presence. A wall of old photographs at ten inches reads as a deliberate record rather than as a few pictures that happened to be framed, and the faces are recognisable from a chair rather than only up close.
Squares, rectangles, rounds and hexagons are all made. Smooth, clean, fully cured paint is what holds. The pads need 24 hours before they take any weight. It is not for textured walls, brick or wallpaper. Mixed sets of shapes and sizes save up to 65%.
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For best results, customize your parents’ photos on Glass Tiles by uploading a clear, high-resolution image that’s blur-free and well-lit.
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