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How to take the best possible photos to ensure that personalised products come out as awesome as the best examples that you see online
So you have seen the perfect personalised pet product, whether its a gorgeous canvas design featuring your pet, a SquishyFacedCrew 3D pet shaped pillow or one of our incredible bespoke cuddly toys of your pet. Or maybe you have seen a product on another personalised site, either way, things are going to boil down to taking the best possible photos of your pet.
Make no mistake, whether buying from SquishyFacedCrew or any other such site, the quality of the photos of your pet are going to make or break the final outcome. We're not magicians, so if you provide a grainy photo that looks like it was lifted off the seabed on the doomed Titanic, then you guessed it, the outcome is likely to be grainier and less clear then say a professional photo.
However, you most definitely do not need to be a professional photographer with a top of the range DSLR camera to do your pet justice and to get an incredible outcome from your personalised products - simply follow our super simple and clear guide and we'll nail it together!
As a simple rule of thumb, always aim to take your photos outside, in clear daylight. At the same time though, avoid shadows - especially those covering say half of your pets body. Make sure the light is constant and consistent
Camera flashes provide a very harsh and 'washed out' light, as well as making it likely that we'll get some red-eye to deal with. Photos taken with a strong flash are likely to make your pets fur appear lighter then the natural tone, making your pet art or products look less true to form - which is most definitely not what we're after when it comes to personalised products featuring your pet!
Top Tip for gift buyers. Both our cuddly toys and 3D pillows can be created with the pet in a range of positions, and for the pillow especially, the photo used is key. We offer a see it before we ship it proof service, it may make sense to purchase a product and share with the recipient to ensure their perfect photo is used. Either that or ask them to share their 3 all time fave photos of their pet, and we can work with you to help choose the ones which will work best
It's really easy to accidentally cut out a tail or a hind paw. Its much less of a problem if you're going for a custom bit of art work like our Royalty (pictured) where we just use the face (ensure the ears and all are in clearer view mind) but when we're making custom products like our cuddly toy, which captures your pet from a full 360 degrees, its critical that we get all the details captured perfectly
We will work with you to ensure that we only use a really good photo, so do not stress and remember;
So whilst the photo you choose is really really important, we are here to help and you certainly do not need to lose any sleep over it. Lets work together to get this PERFECT
We have two main ways you can share your photo;
For the second option, you can either share your photos with us on email, live chat or social media.
Please note, you will need an order number before our team will create and share any mock-ups as we are busy working on the products for customers, so are unable to make samples without a valid order being placed
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