Artists * Photographers * Graphic Artists

You are in Control with PicturePaper® Custom Gift Wrap

Flexible Design Layout

The Artists/Photographers selection on the Select a Category for your Custom Gift Wrap page presents you with numerous layouts for displaying your artwork on custom printed gift wrapping paper. These can be used to create almost any layout you might need.

These basic building blocks will be aligned by our systems to produce a finished roll that is printed 23.6 inches wide (printed on 24 inch white paper) and can be made to any length you request between 4 feet and 25 feet. Special order arrangements allow for rolls up to 50 feet in length

These basic backgrounds are all plain white. Anywhere your image does not cover the paper it will show as white. This can be a design element to use to your advantage. Making your artwork smaller than the building block element will introduce a nice separation when needed.

Alternately you can superimpose your image on any background you choose, solid, stripe, pattern or another image and then place that layered image into the appropriate pattern. Any layered image should be flattened before it is uploaded.

When designing your image it is important to remember that the images will abut against one another. If you are using anything other than a solid color you must make sure that the color and shading where the abutment occurs is the same. Otherwise the eye will perceive a line separating the patterns on the finished gift wrapping paper.

Photographs, Paintings and Artwork

Out custom gift wrap paper will work with virtually any digital image file you have. The editing software on the web site gives you the ability to shrink, enlarge, rotate and move your images within the design template.

Often you will have your own editing capabilities in your software suite. This will allow you to control these same functions, sometimes with a finer degree of control. Whenever possible it is best to upload the image already sized for the final template. We recommend that your image be 300 to 600 dots per inch resolution but you should restrict it to be no more than 6 MB in size. With special order arrangement we can also accept your .ai and .eps files. We strongly recommend that if you have text embedded in your image that the final reduced size be at least 12 pixels tall.

A Simple Design Example

This shows the dramatic differences one can achieve from a single picture.

The original photograph was a little whimsical and completely out of character for the subject. We wanted to enhance that exaggeration.

While the original photograph was lovely, the dark background of the forest made the overall coloring too heavy to simply replicate the image on wrapping paper.

One Picture, Two Approaches

For the design on the left, most of the background was erased leaving just a splash of color to complement the dress. An embossed XXI was created to signify her twenty-first birthday.

The second approach used an oval frame with some blending on the edges to soften the transition. The color was picked from one in the dress.

Final Touches

Erasing the background was the more difficult part of the left design. After that it was easy to blend the XXI into the stone bench and flatten the layers.

The oval design was quicker to construct. Once the frame was ready it was a simple matter to touch up the photo and size it inside the frame for the desired effect.

The final step for both was to size the image to exactly 1200 pixels tall x 900 pixels wide and to flatten the layers.

Finished

Both of these gift wrap patterns are then made by uploading the images to the Rectangle 4 x 3 Staggered pattern.

The possibilities are endless, restricted only by the imagination.

If you can design it, we can print it.

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