Have you ever heard of or come across photo sculpture? Is there anything like photo sculpture? If yes, what is photo sculpture? Well, if you have not heard yet about such a form of art, let me tell you that you actually have. When you hear photo sculpture, first of all you should think of photo cutout, actually. There you see. All of you have heard of photo sculpture. The process of making a photo sculpture (or cutout) basically consists of printing a copy of a photo, either from an image that was sent in an e-mail or scanned from a photographic print.

 

Then heat apply a clear coat is to the photo surface so that your photo sculpture will be protected from water damage and the damage from harmful ultra violet light that causes prints to fade. After the photo has been edited to produce the best quality photo sculpture and printed, it gets stuck to the surface of an acrylic or oak blank. The next part that comes in the process is the hard part of making a quality photo sculpture: the cutting away of the background. For this it is necessary for a scroll saw with a blade so fine and thin that it is sometimes not even visible when in motion to be used.

Sometimes even magnyfying glasses are necessary. Finally, the cutout gets mounted on a pedestal making it a photo sculpture in itself, independant of an album or frame that must be hung on a wall. Such a photo sculpture can be a wonderful gift for your dear ones, as well as beautiful Christmas decorations. Actually the photo sculpture pieces meant to decorate the Christmas tree will no longer have the base/pedestal but a hanging ribbon to help attach them to the tree. Made for decorative purposes, the photo sculpture pieces are usually pretty small.

Another form of phot sculpture is the POPout style. In this type of photo sculpture, the photo cutout will literally pop out from the background. Besides these two types of photo sculpture pieces, there can be made lifesize ones. These as the name suggests, are bigger. A lifesize photo sculpture is usually meant for advertising purposes.  Yet another form of photo sculpture can be considered also the personalized jigsaw puzzle.

There are lots of firms that can make personalized photo sculpture items for you; you can find information about them on the internet, but if you are fed up with searching the net for them, you could as well learn how to make a photo sculpture yourself. If you decide to do it, you might end up starting a business of your own, starting actually for fun reasons.

Posted by Phillipe / Home Sculptures