When choosing a photo to send with your order please be selective. Only email - high resolution - high quality - JPEG files! Photos over 1mb in size are preferred. If your photo is below 500k please consider that it's possibly too small to work with.

Please ensure the photo is sharp enough, giving me details to work with, and has good lighting and composition. If you're not sure you can email the photo to me and I can advise if it's OK to work with before you place your order.

This is an example of a good photo to work with:

The subject fills the photograph, has good lighting, and when zooming in the detail stays sharp and consistent. This is an excellent image to create a pet sketch portrait.



This is an example of an acceptable photo to work with:

This photo is acceptable because on zooming in there is still some details in the focal area, also the subject's head fills a large area of the photo. However, it lacks sharpness and is pixelated, as well as having bad lighting.

Please see if you can find a sharper photo with better lighting for me to create your ideal pet sketch portrait.



This is not a good photo to work from:

This photo seems fine when viewed at a distance but when looked at more closely it looks blurred. Also, notice that the lighting and composition is not so good (the head is cropped off the edge of the photo).

The picture possibly would have been useable at a much higher resolution so please check that your digital camera is on the highest quality setting so that you can take the ideal shot.

Photos taken from a camera phone tend to be in this category and are not recommended. Remember - the larger the photo the better! If it's too large to email you can send it to me by post (copied on to a CD). Alternatively, I can use a photographic print which you can also post to me. Click here for my postal address.