Turn photo into painting: your miniature, on the wall.
Turn photo into painting, starting with the one you spent hours on. It sits on a shelf, or in a foam-lined box, where nobody sees it. Photograph it and we put it somewhere worth looking at: a woodland path, a tavern, a battlefield at sunset, or a quiet stone courtyard. Your paintwork is never touched.
You've spent hours on that miniature. The glue, the primer, the thin coats, the wash in the recesses, the dry-brush on the edge highlights. And now it sits on a shelf, or worse, in a foam-lined box, where nobody sees it except you and the cat.
What we do is not repainting. Your figure is already painted, by you, and the one thing this studio will not do is paint over that work. Every style prompt carries the same instruction: Treat the photographed character as a locked foreground. Preserve its exact silhouette, miniature proportions, face, pose, painted colors, brushwork, armor, clothing, weapons and sculpted details. Do not redesign, repaint, resculpt, embellish or turn it into a different realistic character.
What changes is everything around it.
Turn photo into painting: how the process actually works
Three steps, and the middle one is where the work happens.
Step one: upload a photo. Any photo of your painted miniature works, but some work better than others. The photography guide covers the lighting, the backdrop and the angle. The short version: good light, plain background, fill the frame.
Step two: choose a scene and approve the render. You get a watermarked preview at screen resolution. If it is wrong — the light does not match, the terrain does not continue under the feet, the figure reads as plastic — generate another. Three free previews a day, and you verify your email to use the studio. When one is right, you tick the box against that specific render, and that tick unlocks the cart.
The tick matters more than it sounds. The render you approve is what we print from: after payment the same composition is re-rendered at full print resolution from the picture you accepted, not from the prompt being run again. Re-rendering can still shift fine detail, so check the preview against your original before you approve it.
Step three: it arrives. Your chosen product is made to order for US delivery, with shipping rates shown at checkout for your address.
The five styles
All five replace the surroundings and leave the figure alone. The display base comes off and scene terrain continues under the unchanged feet; the paintwork, pose and proportions are the ones you photographed.
Woodland Path. A forest footpath: mossy stones, ferns and soft canopy light, with the figure standing on the continuous forest floor. The gentlest of the five, and the one that suits a lone ranger, a druid, a scout.
Paintwork Portrait. A restrained stone courtyard, distant architecture softly blurred, even diffuse light. The setting stays out of the way, which makes this the one to pick when the paint job is the point.
Hero Portrait. The entrance to a ruined fortress at dusk, subtle rim light and distant mist. The most dramatic framing here, and it wants a figure with a strong silhouette.
Into Battle. A mountainous battlefield at sunset: distant armies, drifting smoke and muted light, with irregular dirt and stone directly beneath the figure.
The Tavern. Warm timber, a stone hearth and distant tables, the figure standing on the floor at the same scale as the room. The downtime portrait, and the one people pick for a character they have played for years rather than a display piece.
Why not just take a better photo?
Sometimes that is the right answer, and Paintwork Portrait keeps the setting quiet enough for it. But a photograph of a 32mm figure on a desk is a record of a thing. Putting that same figure on a woodland path at dusk, at A3 on a wall, is the difference between a record and a picture — and the figure in it is still the one you painted, brush marks and all.
If that sounds worth hanging, upload a photo and see. The preview is free and the render is yours to judge.
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Good to know
How does the miniature photo to print process work?
Upload one photo of your painted miniature, choose one of five styles, and approve a free watermarked preview on screen. The approved render is the one printed, at full resolution, after payment.
Do you repaint my miniature?
No. Every style prompt instructs the studio to preserve the exact painted character: same silhouette, same pose, same colors, same brushwork, same sculpted details. All five styles replace the surroundings; the display base comes off and scene terrain continues under the unchanged feet.
What styles are available?
Five: Woodland Path, Paintwork Portrait, Hero Portrait, Into Battle and The Tavern. All five place your character in a scene. Paintwork Portrait is the most restrained of them, a stone courtyard that keeps the attention on your paintwork.
What photo should I use?
Diffused daylight from one side, a plain background, and the miniature in sharp focus filling the frame. A phone on macro mode is enough.
