How do I know whether our photograph is good enough?

Put it through the free print-size check. It reads the file on your own computer and gives a verdict for every standard size at both 300 and 200 DPI, with the crop each frame shape costs already subtracted. You do not need to pay or make an account to see the answer.

The print-size check is free, and so is everything else until you want clean files. Open a photograph, see the largest size it prints at, clean up the background, enlarge it if it is too small, and crop it for every frame size. Free downloads carry a watermark across the image. Paying $12 once removes it for that photograph and unlocks the full-resolution files. There is no account and no subscription.

Does it work with iPhone photos?

Yes. HEIC and HEIF files from an iPhone are decoded in the browser automatically, and so are JPEG, PNG and WebP. A photograph taken on a phone or texted from one opens the same way.

Which sizes does it export?

10 standard frame sizes: 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, 12x16, 16x20, 18x24, 20x24 and 24x36 inches, plus A4 and A3 for programs printed outside the US. You frame the photograph once and every size is cropped from that one framing, with the correct DPI written into each file.

Can it repair a damaged photograph?

No. Tears, creases, water damage, heavy fading and color casts are restoration work, and this does not do it. What it does is the print preparation: what the photograph can print at, the background, the crops for every frame size, and files a print shop will take. For a damaged original, a photo restorer is the right answer, and some offer a rush service for funerals.

All In One Memorial Photo Kit

Print-ready memorial portraits from one photograph

Choose one photograph and get a print-ready file for every frame size a funeral needs: the 8x10 for the register table, the 5x7 for the program, the 20x24 for the easel. A free check tells you first how large it prints cleanly. Too small? It can be enlarged by about one size — softer than a photograph that was big enough, but usually a print worth having. The background is cleaned up, every size is cropped from one framing, and you get one ZIP for the print shop. It all runs in this browser, so the photograph never leaves your computer.

Open it — free, no sign-up What size do we need?

The check is free. $12 once removes the watermark and unlocks the full-resolution files for that photograph. No account, no subscription, nothing to cancel.

Stage 1 of 3 · free

Read by this browser. It goes nowhere else.

How large can your photograph be printed?

Choose the photograph and you have an answer for every frame size in a few seconds.

Drop the photograph here

JPG, PNG, WebP or iPhone HEIC. You can paste one from the clipboard too — a photo saved from a message works.

The photograph is read on this device and never uploaded.

Privacy

The photograph never leaves your computer

Nothing is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to be sent. The software that does the work downloads to your browser once and is kept there. Every check, cut-out, crop and preview is then computed by your own machine. Nobody here sees the photograph, and no copy of it exists anywhere but on your computer.

The privacy page lists every third party involved. It is a short list.

How it works

How to prepare a memorial portrait for print, in three stages

Check it, clean it up, then make the files. Each stage hands its result to the next, so you never re-import a file or re-crop something you already framed.

What it can print at
The largest size the photograph prints cleanly, size by size, at both 300 and 200 DPI. The crop each frame shape costs comes off before the verdict, so the number you read is what the paper receives, not the flattering one that pixels divided by inches gives you. Free, and it stays free.
Clean it up
Lift the person away from a busy kitchen, a party, a hospital room — whatever happens to be behind them — and put a quiet ground there instead. A brush fixes anything the automatic pass got wrong.
The print files
Frame the face once. Every standard frame size is cropped from that one framing, with the correct pixel dimensions and DPI written into each file, and you get one ZIP with a read-me saying which file is which. If a size you have checked is larger than the photograph can manage, the enlargement is offered here, beside a before-and-after you can judge.

Enlargement

When the only photo is too small to print

If the photograph is smaller than the size you need, it can be enlarged in your browser before the print files are cut. The enlargement is a general super-resolution pass — it reconstructs edges and texture rather than stretching pixels — and in practice it buys about one step up the size list: a photograph that was honest at 8x10 is usually acceptable at 11x14 afterwards. An enlarged print is softer than one made from a photograph that was large enough to begin with, and it is still a print worth putting on the easel. It is reported as its own figure, next to a before-and-after you can judge with your own eyes, and it is never folded into the free print-size check.

An enlargement buys roughly one more size than the photograph could manage on its own, and the result is softer than a file that was that size to start with — usable, not miraculous. It cannot add detail the camera never captured, and it will not rebuild a face. Nobody can retake the photograph. So the honest thing is to say what an enlargement is worth, and let you look at the result before you decide.

What to do when the only photograph is too small covers the other options, including where a larger original usually turns up.

What you get

Every size a funeral asks for, in one ZIP

10 sizes, one framing decision. Beyond the three the service itself uses, there is 11x14 for a frame seen from a few rows back, 16x20 for the memorial board, 12x16, 18x24 and 24x36 for less common frames and easels, and A4 and A3 for programs printed outside the US.

Need the numbers first? The memorial portrait print size chart lists the pixels each size needs at 300 and 200 DPI, with the crop accounted for.

Answers

Funeral photo questions, answered

The questions that come up when a photograph has to be printed for a service, one page each.

Questions

Funeral portrait questions

How do I know whether our photograph is good enough?: Put it through the free print-size check. It reads the file on your own computer and gives a verdict for every standard size at both 300 and 200 DPI, with the crop each frame shape costs already subtracted. You do not need to pay or make an account to see the answer.
What does it cost?: The print-size check is free, and so is everything else until you want clean files. Open a photograph, see the largest size it prints at, clean up the background, enlarge it if it is too small, and crop it for every frame size. Free downloads carry a watermark across the image. Paying $12 once removes it for that photograph and unlocks the full-resolution files. There is no account and no subscription.
Does it work with iPhone photos?: Yes. HEIC and HEIF files from an iPhone are decoded in the browser automatically, and so are JPEG, PNG and WebP. A photograph taken on a phone or texted from one opens the same way.
Which sizes does it export?: 10 standard frame sizes: 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, 12x16, 16x20, 18x24, 20x24 and 24x36 inches, plus A4 and A3 for programs printed outside the US. You frame the photograph once and every size is cropped from that one framing, with the correct DPI written into each file.
Can it repair a damaged photograph?: No. Tears, creases, water damage, heavy fading and color casts are restoration work, and this does not do it. What it does is the print preparation: what the photograph can print at, the background, the crops for every frame size, and files a print shop will take. For a damaged original, a photo restorer is the right answer, and some offer a rush service for funerals.