Cardboard Cutouts Photo Tips

All Photo Uploads take place during the checkout process!

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Taking your photo

• Take it vertically, not horizontally
• Take photos close up (tight shot). Try not to use the least zoom possible, just get closer.
• Do not cut the feet or arms off.
• Light backgrounds are better
• The auto setting is usually fine for taking photos for cutouts.
• Sharp, focused, and clear images work the best.

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Getting your photo to us

• You can upload your photo or artwork at the end of the order process.
• We accept your digital photos or scanned files up to 2 GB
• You must create an account to upload your photo.
• We accept the following file types:
  • JPEG
  • TIFF
  • EPS
  • RAW
  • Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

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Photo Resolution Requirements and Camera Specifications

• Digital Cameras must have a resolution of at least 5 megapixels or higher.
• Most Smart Phones have a camera good enough to make a cutout from. The photo must be clear and crisp.
• Camera resolution MUST be set to high or fine. Some cameras just list numbers - choose the largest one. This will give you less pictures, but higher quality photos.
• When sending a digital photo, the file size should be at least 500 kb or larger.
• *** DO NOT JUST CHANGE THE RESOLUTION *** Let us work with the original file.

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Hard Copy Photo Guidelines

• We accept any professionally developed photo (CVS, Walgreens, Walmart ect.).
• This includes but is not limited to 35mm, 110, Polaroids, and slides
• You don't have to scan your photos, just send us the originals
• Please avoid sending photo prints from home printer dock, photo printers, or photo copies. These do not enlarge well, and will produce fuzzy or undesired results.
• If your not sure about how to scan you photo, print out this page and take it to your local Kinkos, Staples, or Office Max and they will scan it for you for a small fee.
• If you do scan them, you do not have to enlarge it, just set the scan depth to a higher dpi. 1200 dpi (dots per inch) or ppi (pixels per inch) or higher will product the best print, but 600 dpi also produces a good quality cutout. As a warning... these scans may take some time and will be larger files.
• Please avoid sending photo prints from home printer dock, photo printers, or photo copies. These do not enlarge well, and will produce fuzzy or undesired results.
• 35mm disposables work the best, they have less settings and generally take better photo. When getting pictures developed ask for a photo CD and send that.

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We rate photo quality on a scale from 1 to 10, 1 is a total stinker that is so blurry even Grandma wont recognize it, 10 is what you would expect from a professional photographer.