3D Printing
Photo to Lithophane
Drop a photo and get a backlit-ready lithophane tile. Your picture's brightness becomes the panel's thickness, so light shining through reproduces the photo. No modeling, no AI guesswork. Just your picture, printable.
What converts best
- Portraits and pet photos are the sweet spot: a clear subject with good contrast glows beautifully
- Wedding, baby, and holiday photos make keepsake gifts that cost pennies in filament
- Phone photos are fine; the tone curve is applied for you
- Very dark or washed-out images lose detail, so favor an evenly lit shot
What you get in the download
- A color-mapped 3MF: the panel and its frame as separate objects, so a multicolor printer prints the frame in any color with zero painting
- A matched STL for broad slicer compatibility
- A short README with the proven settings: white filament, 100% infill, printed vertically
- Faithful by design: the conversion is deterministic, so the print matches the photo you uploaded
Free to start. A few free generations per day, no sign-in required. Files auto-delete within 24 hours unless you opt in to keep them longer.
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