Photo Guidelines

The quality of the photo have a great impact on the quality of the final portrait so please choose carefully. We prefer using photos done at a photography studio. When using non-professional photos please follow the guidelines below to achieve the best outcome in your portrait:

• The person's face should be clear and in the size of 1" x 1" or larger in the photo.
• Indoor taken photos make better portraits than outdoor photos.
• If the photo you choose is outdoor taken, avoid the ones with strong shadows casted on faces from the sunlight as the shadow might not appear well in portraits.

We also specialize in duplicating old photographs. Often times these photos do not have great amount of detail in people faces, but portrait drawings or paintings make wonderful memory keepsakes as your old photograph will fade away after years but our artwork can last many years longer.

If using photos of quality other than listed above, we can still try our best but please keep in mind that the quality of photos impacts the quality of portraits.

Special Requests

We can do special requests such as:

• Combining people from separate photos into one portrait
• Combining face from photo A with clothing from photo B

The following requests are possible, but advised against as the altered portrait might turn out as a poor representation of the original person:

• Removing eyeglasses
• Modify hairstyle
• Removing braces
• Improve facial appearance such as removing wrinkles/double-chin, making face slimmer

While all these requests are possible, we suggest that you supply all of the extra photo elements to be drawn.

Example: If you like your portrait with a beach background, please supply a photo of the beach as well as a person to be drawn.

Please be very specific when you describe any changes you would like to be made when you email us for a quote. Depends on the difficulty level of the special requests, an extra fee might be subjected.