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Funeral Poster & Easel Photo (16×20 to 24×36), Print-Ready

Print-ready easel files from 11×14 to 24×36, with bleed and crop marks. The portrait does not add names or dates. Preview the photograph free.

A glass-negative portrait of an older man in a suit, with emulsion flaking along the hairline and a pale streak at the left.
Original
The same portrait restored, with the flaking and streak cleaned and a plain studio background. The face is unchanged.
Restored

Example photos from public archives.

The photograph on the easel

The portrait beside the casket is usually 16 by 20 inches. Other frames families ask for are 11×14, 18×24, 20×30, and 24×36. Tribute Portrait makes those sizes from one restored photograph, as a JPG and as a PDF with a 0.125 inch bleed and crop marks.

The file is the photograph only. It does not add the person’s name, the dates, a verse, or a border of type. Whoever prints the poster or lays out a foam board sets that text separately. Leaving type out of the portrait file keeps the face large and lets the shop use its own layout.

What “print-ready” means here

A print shop often asks for 300 pixels per inch. At 16×20 that is 4,800 by 6,000 pixels. A restored photograph from an old print often has less real detail than that number. The site still builds the file at the shop’s size and tells you the real detail beside it. A 16×20 is often about 150–200 pixels per inch. From the distance people stand at an easel, that can look clear. It is not a claim that every old photograph becomes a sharp 300 ppi poster.

Order the PDF if the shop trims to crop marks. Order the JPG if they asked for an image they will place in their own template. Both are the same crop. You can also type a custom size when the frame is not one of the usual ones.

Which sizes to order

16×20 is the usual easel. 11×14 is a smaller stand. 18×24 is a taller 3:4 crop. 20×30 and 24×36 are wide posters. A photograph that is already a vertical portrait crops more kindly into 16×20 than a wide group picture does.

If you only have one modest photo, the program and the prayer card are the kinder sizes. The same master makes those too, so you do not restore the photograph again for each piece. The easel guide explains the crops in more detail.

A poster this large shows damage that a wallet print would hide. Look at the preview on a large screen before you pay. Scratches across a forehead are the thing to check, not the smoothness of the background.

Printing it the same day

A local photo lab or print shop can print enlargements. Which sizes it can finish today depends on that shop. Call the shop before you go, then confirm the size and the timing on the shop’s own page. Do not rely on a price or a turnaround printed somewhere else.

Bring the PDF or the JPG from the download page, not a screenshot. Ask the clerk to use the crop marks if you handed them the PDF, and ask them not to add a caption unless the family wants type outside the photograph.

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