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A set of eight inch glass photo tiles in a parent memories layout. Old photographs of your parents, which is a different task from recent ones.
The source material here is usually scanned paper, often decades old and often small to begin with. Eight inches is the size at which that holds together: grain and softness read as period rather than as a fault, where at twelve inches the same scan shows every limitation it has.
No nails are needed, because the mounting is magnetic. That is the argument for a set rather than for choosing the one good picture and making it large.
A flat, even scan at good resolution prints well at any size in this range. A phone photograph of a print, taken at an angle under a ceiling light, does not. If the originals are all you have, scan them properly before ordering anything.
The image is UV printed behind the glass, not engraved. Engraving renders an image in white frosting and discards the warm cast of an old print, the colour of a dress, the particular yellow of a 1970s snapshot. Printing keeps the age of the picture as well as its content.
Eight inches is forgiving of a scan in a way ten inches is not, which is the main reason to choose this size for old material. A print that was never very sharp, or a scan made years ago at a modest setting, will hold up here and fall apart larger.
Scan flat and square on at the highest setting available, and send that rather than a reduced copy or a photograph of the print. Colour Enhancement costs $1.99 per image.
Several decades on one wall is the real appeal here. Parents photographed in their twenties, then with small children, then recently, read as a life rather than as a collection of old pictures, and the sequence does work that no single enlargement can. It is also the set most likely to be assembled from material nobody has looked at in years.
Square, rectangle, round and hexagon are the four shapes. Smooth, clean, fully cured paint is what holds. Hang it 24 hours after the pads are placed. Textured walls, brick, concrete and wallpaper will not hold. A set can mix sizes and shapes, saving up to 65%.
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