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A slate plate with a heart-shaped white patch printed into it, carrying your photograph in full colour. The patch is the whole design and it solves the one real problem with printing on stone.
Slate is dark charcoal, and a colour image printed straight onto it sits on that dark ground: the picture comes out deep and slightly muted, with pale areas picking up the stone's tone. Printing a white area first gives the photograph a clean base, so the colours read as they do on paper. Everything bright in the picture stays bright.
The stone stops being visible behind the image. On a plain slate plate the riven surface shows through and the photograph looks like part of the rock; here it looks like a photograph on a stone plaque. Which of those you want is the decision between the two formats, and it is not a question of quality.
Pictures with bright colour in them: a summer photograph, a child in a red coat, flowers, anything where the colour is part of the subject. On bare stone those are exactly the images that lose the most, and the white base is what gets them back. A dark, moody photograph gains far less, and on that kind of picture the plain heart plate is the better object. The stone is split rather than sawn, so the plate still has a riven edge and its own face even though the printed area is clean.
Send the camera original. Chat copies come back softened, and a white base shows softness that a dark ground would have hidden. Only the printed area is a heart: the plate itself is rectangular, which means it stands squarely on a shelf and has corners rather than points to survive being knocked.
There is a practical point in favour of this version too. A cut heart has two points at the top and one at the bottom, all of which are the first things to chip if the plate is knocked or badly packed. A rectangle with a heart printed into it has none of those, which makes it the sturdier of the two for a plate that will be moved about or posted on.
Sublimation is the process, so the colour sits in the surface. If an original looks flat, Colour Enhancement costs $1.99 per image.
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How to Create Your Own Personalized Photo Slate Plaque
Say ‘goodbye’ to standard custom picture frames and ‘hello’ to custom rock slate frames! To make a custom slate photo frame, we use the latest in sublimation printing technology, ensuring your favorite slate pictures never peel or fade. Choose one of our premium custom templates, upload a photo, align and set your photo on the slate just the way you like, add text, and get ready to add functional home decor with a modern touch to your favorite spaces. It’s that easy to make a slate photo print.
Put a picture on a slate rock today! Custom photo stones make great personalized photo gifts for any occasion.
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