Photo guide

You don’t need a professional photo. You need one where you can almost hear them.

How to choose and prepare a photo for your Pawdumi piece.

An apricot poodle at eye level in soft light
Clear and closeSoft daylight, both eyes visible, face fills a good part of the frame.
A ginger cat looking straight at the camera
Their natural lookCurious, sleepy or cheeky all count. Markings and colour are easy to see.
A dog small in the frame, far down a path
Too far, too blurryA tiny or blurred face can’t be enlarged into detail. Choose a closer original.

Checklist

Files the studio accepts: JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 10 MB, at least 200 × 200 pixels. Export iPhone HEIC photos as JPG first.

  • Soft daylight from a window, a door or light shade. No flash.
  • Camera at their eye level; both eyes and their markings visible.
  • Leave a little space around the ears and chin.
  • Use the original file, not a screenshot or a messaging-app copy.
  • At least 1000 pixels on the shorter side is ideal.

Try your photo

A tabby cat asleep in the sun
Photo: Lucie Hošová / Unsplash