Adding a Portrait to Your Monument

Porcelain portraits are a wonderful way to add your loved one's picture to their monument. They are beautiful, durable, weather resistant, and will not fade. They are available in color, black and white or sepia tone, depending upon your preference. Almost any photo can be used, and in most cases, the background can be altered, or even substituted, to create a truly unique memorial portrait.

If you want to display the photo of a loved one on a headstone

a porcelain portrait plaque may be a very economical choice. Porcelain portraits are available in many shapes and sizes. They can either be recessed into the granite or can be easily placed on the granite surface with a special adhesive tape. Porcelain photographs are created by pouring porcelain over a stainless steel base, firing in a kiln until hard, and transferring the portrait onto the porcelain base. They are then kiln fired again, at a high temperature, which permanently fuses them all together.

 

Another option for adding a portrait to your monument is laser etching directly into the granite. The digital imaging process for laser etching offers many options, including background removal, digital touch-up, text addition, and other digital modifications. Group photos can be converted to single or couple portraits, and vise-verse. Not only photographs, but drawings, emblems, and entire poems can be added to the portrait.

Raster, bitmap or digital images are then directly etched into the surface with a laser. The granite headstone is placed directly on the laser's table and the prepared file is transferred to the stone. This creates a beautiful portrait that will endure as long as the granite monument itself. Of course, the choice depends upon the granite color as well as the monument design. Check with your monument manufacturer to see what options might be right for you.