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An octagonal glass ornament with your photograph in full colour. The eight-sided shape sits deliberately between the round and the square, and it exists because both of those have a drawback that the octagon partly solves.
A circle crops a rectangular photograph hard, removing both ends. A square keeps the picture but reads as a plain tile on a tree, with no silhouette of its own. An octagon keeps most of what a square keeps, since the corners it cuts are small, while still having a recognisable outline when it is hanging among round baubles. For a photograph that will not survive a circular crop but still deserves a shape of its own, this is the answer, and it is the least known of the six.
The smallest size is very slightly taller than it is wide, which suits a portrait photograph marginally better than the larger two. The cut corners also make the shape sit differently on a hook, hanging flatter against the tree than a circle does, so it turns less in a draught and spends more of its time facing the room. On a crowded branch that is worth more than it sounds.
The image appears in full colour on thin glass, so it stays a photograph: colours, skin tones and background all intact, just as they are in your file. The thinness is what makes it work on a lit tree, since light from behind passes through the glass and lifts the picture. Positioned in front of the lights rather than behind them it loses most of that effect, which is the single most common reason a photo ornament looks disappointing once it is on the tree.
A tree accumulating one ornament a year is better served by the smallest size, since the decision cannot be reversed later. The same shape is made with a Christmas design, a monogram, a wedding design, an anniversary design, a family design and a pet design, and the plain version is also available as a round, a square, a heart, a bell and a bone. The square is the one to take if the photograph cannot spare even the corners.
There are seven outlines. Heart, round, square, octagon, bell, bone and paw. Sets are built to your own choice of shapes. Buy two for 10% off, fifteen for half price. Colour Enhancement can be added for $1.99 per image.
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