A pencil drawing on the wall. Switch the light on and your photo comes through in full colour.
Drop a photo here, or click to choose one
JPEG, PNG or WebP. A bright, sharp picture with a clear subject works best.
Lights off
Lights on
Drag the picture inside the frame to move the crop.
Scroll to zoom in on the detail. Hold space (or drag with the right or middle button) to move around. On a phone, pinch and drag with two fingers.
Preview is indicative — the printed sheet is a little softer than a screen, and we fine-tune the drawing before printing so the paper comes out properly white.
Stays in your browser until you send the design. A bright photo with a clear subject makes the best drawing — busy backgrounds turn to mush.
Warm light flatters skin tones; cool light keeps blues and whites true.
With the light on it's always your photo in colour. This is what it turns into when the light goes off.
Thin, tight lines through to broad, soft shading.
How hard the outlines are drawn over the shading.
Turn this up until the background is properly white — grey areas stay visible on the wall when the frame is switched off.
50 keeps your photo's own tones. Push it up for punch — but heavy shadow blocks the backlight and dims the colour underneath.
Starts slightly lifted on purpose: an unlit sheet is seen by reflected light and prints darker than it looks on a screen.
Mark which part of the picture is the subject. Everything else only appears when the light comes on.
One press. Works inwards from the edges of the picture, so it needs the background to be a flat or evenly shaded colour.
People: Portraits and family photos. Keeps hair edges. Pets, cars & objects: Twenty everyday categories. Coarser edges.
Neither model reads drawings or anime art well — use the wand for those. The first run downloads the model plus a few megabytes of runtime. Your photo stays on your device.
Found:
Pick a tool, then work directly on the frame above.
Click a patch of background — a gap of sky between two people, say — and it goes. This is the one that reaches places the automatic pass cannot, because those patches touch no edge of the picture.
A little softness hides a rough cut-out.
Pull it in slightly to trim the halo of background colour around the subject.
Zoom in, then drag the picture in the frame to place it.
We'll reply with pricing and lead time — usually within one business day.
Sending a design doesn't place an order — nothing is charged until you approve our quote.