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A slate plate with a round white patch printed into it, carrying your photograph in full colour. A circle is the hardest printed shape to crop to and the one that most rewards the right picture. Nothing on the face lifts, because the ink is in the surface.
Every photograph is taken as a rectangle, and a round patch cuts all four corners away. That takes the setting and leaves the subject, which is wrong for a landscape or a wide group and exactly right for a single face. Crop to one person near the middle of the frame and nothing important is lost.
Slate is dark, and an image printed directly onto it reads deep and slightly muted. A white base under the picture gives the colours somewhere clean to sit, so skin tones and bright areas come out as they do on paper. On a round portrait, where the face is most of the image, that difference is worth having.
One face, centred. A circle cuts the corners of a rectangular photograph and then curves in on all four sides, which is the most aggressive crop in the slate range, so anything with two people standing apart or a horizon running across it will not come back the way it went in. Send the camera original rather than a chat copy, because a white base shows softness that a dark ground would have hidden.
Only the printed area is round: the plate is rectangular, so it stands squarely on a shelf and has corners rather than curves to survive handling. Each one is split rather than sawn, so the edge is riven and no two match, and the stone shows plainly around the printed patch. It stands unaided on any flat surface, and an ordinary plate stand tilts it towards the room.
Between the three stamp plates, the circle is the one to take when the picture is a single face and the colour matters. It is also the one that loses the most, so if there is any doubt about what survives the crop, the square patch keeps far more of the same photograph and prints it just as cleanly.
Printing here is sublimation rather than engraving. For a faded original, Colour Enhancement is $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.
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