Red Accent 3D Crystal Heart

Six inches wide, five and a half tall, an inch and a half thick and just under four pounds, with red crystal running through the outer edge of the heart and your photograph engraved inside the clear part of it. The thickness is the specification that matters most. An inch and a half of crystal is enough depth for the engraving to be built as a model rather than as a picture, which is exactly what separates this piece from the flat heart in the same series.

What Depth Engraving Actually Does

The laser fires at many levels inside the block instead of one. Each subject is given real volume, and the space between a face and whatever stands behind it is space you can see into, so moving your head changes what the engraving looks like in a way a flat image never does. That only works if the file supports it: a close, reasonably sharp photograph with the subjects clear of the background. Our designers will tell you on the proof if yours is better suited to flat engraving, and they say so more often than you might expect.

Room for Four

Up to four figures are recommended, twice what the small flat heart takes. Two parents and two children fit, so does a couple with a dog, and so does a wedding photograph where the two of you are close to the camera and the frame is not full of guests. Because the block is six inches wide, each of those four faces still gets enough crystal to hold detail, which is the whole reason the recommendation is higher here than on the smaller shapes.

Colour, Lettering and the Bundle

The red sits at the edge of the heart rather than over the picture, so faces stay in clean white engraving and the colour reads as a border around them. Free text engraving is included for a name, a date or a line of your own, and most anniversary orders use it. The background of your photo can be kept or removed, and removing it usually helps a portrait while keeping it is worth considering when the setting is part of the memory. Beyond the standard version there is a bundle that adds a light base, gift wrapping and a cleaning kit, and on a piece this size the base changes the object completely after dark. Gift box included, made in 1-2 business days, US delivery in 3-5.