HOW TO CHOOSE A SUITABLE
IMAGE FOR A MASK
Just purchased some custom masks from Party People? Follow this easy guide to help you find a suitable photo to submit!
IMAGE FOR A MASK
Just purchased some custom masks from Party People? Follow this easy guide to help you find a suitable photo to submit!
1. A High resolution photo
Don't panic! All cameras and phones made in the last 10 years will produce a picture with a high enough resolution to make a mask from! The problem is, these days people save their photos to Facebook or Instagram and because sites like these store millions of photos, they have special software that shrinks photos by reducing their resolution. You can't tell when you look a the picture online because its quite small on your screen, but if you try to blow it up to A4 size for a mask, it looks like it's made of lots of little squares. So remember folks, please no pictures from Facebook or any other online photo storage system. That includes stuff sent through Whatsapp or Snapchat etc.... we just want photos from a PC, Camera or a Phone just like the good old days!! How can you tell? Just zoom in to the picture until the face in it is the size of a face in real life - if it's made of blocks it's probably not suitable... |
2. A Whole Face that is facing the camera Yes, you wouldn't think I needed to tell anyone, but people really do send us side profiles and half of their friends heads! Whilst we do have a resident Photoshop genius, rebuilding half of someones head is a little beyond us and would not be cost efficient for us, so we really do need all of their head! ;0) You also need to remember, when we cut out the eyes, if they are not in the middle of the mask, then no one will be able to see out of it when they wear it! |
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3. A good quality shot Whilst we appreciate that photo of your mate in the nightclub, with glow in the dark glasses on her face and her finger up her nose is a very funny photo, it does not make a good mask! Firstly, photos taken in dark pubs and clubs are rarely usable... photos taken in low light conditions are prone to being blurred and are subject to "speckling" all of which are made a lot worse when we blow the photo up to A4 size! The finger up the nose is hard because we have to stick within the confines of the size of the card we use, so we can't really fit hands in the mask as well as heads!.. For the same reason, please try to avoid Hats with brims and giant wigs too! |
"My god you guys are fussy!"
Honestly we aren't! While we know the above sounds very complicated and technical, it all boils down to a simple photo from a Camera or phone of someone facing the camera in good light. See! that's not fussy! ;0)