Funeral easel photo sizes

What size is a funeral easel photo?

The portrait on an easel beside the casket is usually 16 by 20 inches. That is a 4:5 photograph. Other frames families ask for are 11×14, 18×24 (a 3:4 crop), and the wider 2:3 sizes, 20×30 and 24×36.

What does 300 dpi mean on a 16×20?

A file prepared at 300 pixels per inch is the size a print shop expects. At 16×20 that would be 4,800 by 6,000 pixels. A restored photograph often has less real detail than that. Around 2,700 by 3,600 pixels is about 168 pixels per inch at 16×20. From a few feet away, which is how an easel is seen, that can look clear. Up close, a smaller print will look sharper.

Tribute Portrait still builds the file at the 300 ppi size, with bleed and crop marks, and states the real detail next to each size. It does not claim that a large easel is a 300 ppi photograph when the restored image cannot support that.

Which photograph survives a large print?

If you are choosing between two photos, prefer the one where the face is larger in the frame. Cropping a tiny face out of a group and then printing it at 16×20 asks the restoration to invent detail. When the photo is very small, the site says so before you continue.

Order the print with the PDF if the shop is used to crop marks, or the JPG if they asked for an image. Both are the same crop.