- Try choosing a photo suitable for the design of your choice.
When choosing a shoulderbag, it would be wise to choose a portrait photo. If you wish a shopper, then a landscape photo qualifies best. (beautiful)bag can crop the image in a way it fits the design, but be sure that everything that you would like to be shown on your (beautiful)bag can be within the cropping-area. Examples can be seen on our Tips page - Dark images are not advisable.
This will negatively influence the final result.
In our experience, to make dark images better for printing, the editing can cause strange spots or skincolour with bigger pixelation. Please take this into consideration while choosing your photo(s). - Try to select a photo with sufficient space around your main subject.
This gives us space to make the image fit the best way possible. Photos where the subject touches the edge of the photo might result in loosing some information. In order to be able to zoom in, we'll need good quality photos. - Plainer backgrounds are the best.
We prefer photos with an obvious focus of one or few subjects. Changing the whole background doesn't always give the best result. - Your photos will be edited by (beautiful)bag.
Every photo gets our personal attention: colors will become brighter and deeper, the contrast higher. Please inform us if you don’t require this additional editing service. - Are you having difficulties judging your photo(s) for its quality?
Please mail the photo(s) to beautifulbag@gmail.com. (beautiful)bag will reply f.o.c with our opinion of your photo(s).
2. Digital photos
- Your digital photo(s) should be no less than 3.0 megapixels and saved as JPEG.
It is impossible to make a high quality bag from a poor quality image. - The photos meant for a shoulderbag or shopper, should have a minimum size of 1mb and maximum 3mb.
Images of lesser quality could be used, provided that the light in the photo is sufficient. Even then the crispness and clarity of the printed image will be effected to a certain degree. If we feel that the quality of the image is too poor to be able to make a (beautiful)bag, we will contact you to discuss the problem. If the quality is sufficient we will confirm this as well through email. - The photos meant for a KIDZbag should have a minimum size of 500kb, and photos meant for a wallet, minimum 350kb.
3. Scanned images
- Your bag is only as beautiful as your photo(s).
Therefore it is important to provide a good image. We prefer to receive the original photo, ONLY quality printouts of images can be used. Poor printouts on low quality paper will produce a bad image once scanned. No magazine/newspaper photos or images can be used. The paper these are printed on cannot be scanned to produce a clear image. - Please scan your image at size A5, 300dpi
(appr. 21cm x 15cm) and save them as JPEG. Good quality scans can produce good quality prints for your bag. Poorly scanned images may be rejected due to poor quality when printing the image on tarpaulin. We would then request a new image from you.
4. Your instructions for (beautiful)bag
- Cropping instructions are very important.
Anything important on your photo that has to be shown within the cropping-area (that will be printed on your bag), can be described in the cropping instructions. - Removing red eyes can also be stated in the cropping instructions.
If the your photo has a date on it, we will remove this. But if you do not want it to be removed, please tell us in the cropping instructions.
5. Images which are not suitable for printing on your bag
- Photos which might cause offence will be refused. - When your photo contains a copyright, please be sure to have obtained the relevant permission beforehand. This is particularly important if any customer brings in a photo of a celebrity or similar. (beautiful)bag will have to reject images from book-illustrations and filmposters, or parts thereof.
6. Would you like us to make a collage of multiple photos?
Go to the bottom of the page tips to read more about this.
