We are a small, dedicated team that takes pride in being a vital link in the memorial photo production process. Our goal is simple: to ensure your headstone photos look as beautiful as possible. We take poor-quality images and meticulously restore them for headstone use, while transforming good-quality photos into something truly exceptional.
New Clients: Please send us a photo, and we will gladly process a free sample for you to review.
WHAT YOU GET
When a family provides a "this is all we have" photo, it takes time and profound care to craft a picture suitable for a headstone. Our team puts tremendous effort into this process. We don't just apply a quick filter to make the picture look slightly better—which is relatively easy nowadays. Instead, we extract the maximum potential from the original photograph to restore the subject's likeness to a perfect condition, ready for laser engraving or ceramic photo production.
Every image you send us goes through multiple stages of digital processing. We combine our expertise, the latest technology, and years of experience to draw the highest possible quality from your photos. The result is a vastly improved picture. While there are natural limits depending on the original condition of the photo, even seemingly unusable images are carefully restored to a highly acceptable standard.
Our priority is to ensure the final image complements the beautiful headstone chosen by the family without ruining its appearance. We will always do our absolute best to ensure the family’s complete satisfaction.
DO WE USE AI?
Yes, absolutely. We have followed the development of Artificial Intelligence from the very beginning, utilizing both market-leading tools and our own custom-built solutions. AI has sparked a revolution across many industries, and our line of work is no exception.
However, while AI can seem omnipotent, it has its flaws and limitations. Over the years—with every new Photoshop update, new retouching technique, or newly discovered plugin—we often thought, "This is it, this is the game-changer that will save us hours." But the reality is always a bit different. Yes, the quality of the final images improves every time, but the time spent perfecting them remains the same.
That is still true today. The pictures turn out flawless, but getting there still requires dedicated time. AI is ultimately just a powerful tool. In the right hands, it helps craft images that are visually stunning, technically perfect for granite etching, and most importantly, perfect for the family.
THE LIMITATIONS OF AI
Despite its advantages, AI has quirks that can be incredibly frustrating. Different platforms excel at different tasks. For instance, to achieve top-tier results, you need premium subscriptions across multiple AI services, which is costly. Even then, you are at the mercy of server loads, leading to inconsistent results, freezing, visual "hallucinations," and repetitive generations. Often, your credits are exhausted before yielding a usable result.
Most importantly, AI platforms almost always struggle with faces. This can cause major issues when creating a headstone if the family isn't 100% satisfied with the likeness. That’s why it is absolutely necessary to manually correct the AI’s mistakes to preserve the unique facial features and personality of the individual.
We use an array of premium platforms specifically for the tasks they do best. In addition, we run Stable Diffusion on our local servers with custom-trained models. But even with all this technology, we manually refine and correct every single image in good old Adobe Photoshop. As mentioned, it still takes an hour or more for us to process a single picture—but the result is the most perfect portrait possible.
OUR SERVICES
We prepare perfect photos for all types of memorials.
Over the past twenty years, we have helped prepare tens of thousands of photos for headstones that today adorn numerous monuments throughout the US, Canada and the UK.
ETCHING
We prepare pictures for both laser etching and impact etching on headstones. Over time, we have specialized in portrait retouching—one of the most delicate areas of photo editing—consistently achieving outstanding results. We approach this work with a deep sense of responsibility. We guarantee that our services will provide you with the most sophisticated engraved portraits, preserving a natural appearance without any facial distortion.
- Single Portrait: ~$25 per prepared picture
- Double Portrait (two people in the same picture): $40
CERAMIC
We have over 17 years of experience editing photos for porcelain and ceramic headstone cameos. Over the years, we have successfully processed images in every conceivable condition. To deliver a perfect memorial photo, we edit at the highest possible level while carefully maintaining the original, natural look of your loved one. We will send you every finished portrait with 10 different background options, allowing the family to choose their absolute favorite.
- Pricing: Starts at $20 per picture
BRONZE PLAQUES
Our services also include enhancing images for bronze plaque production. Manufacturers (such as Coldspring or Matthews) who create these beautiful memorials often have strict image quality requirements and may reject poor-quality photos provided by families. Families and monument companies send these photos to us so we can enhance them to meet production standards. This ensures the memorial can be crafted using the exact photograph the family cherishes.
- Pricing: Starts at $30 per picture
GLASS ART
This is a pretty new area to us. Some our clients came to us with inquiries about our possibilities to prepare a picture for Glass Art process. As we possess huge experience in portrait preparations for ceramic photos in color, we have prepared several pictures and we believe that we met the needs of our clients.
Glass Art technique is still at its beginning and only few companies provide this kind of services at the moment, but it will definitely evolve in industry.
DELIVERY TIME
Every order we receive is registered in our time table for the first available processing schedule. Our turn around period is usually up to 48h but this can be prolonged depending on orders in queue. We determine the delivery deadline with every received order and you can rely on that. However, our long term partners are entitled to certain benefits.
We don't outsource your orders to the third parties. We process orders exclusively by ourselves, mostly done by one graphic artist. It takes up to several hours to process every single portrait in order to get the best possible results. It's time consuming and it is absolutely necessary.
SHOP
Although we are specialized in portrait editing, we also prepare different applications for laser and impact etching. For such required variety of applications as a part of this website there is a shop that offers items prepared for etching. These digital files are available right after the purchase and their use is limitless.
There’s an additional option for you to suggest the item you want us to enlist in our shop, and it will be included soon after.
Feel free to check some completely free items there, although they might be a bit lower quality.
OUR CLIENTS
Memorial Pic team nowadays serves monument companies mostly from US, Canada and UK. We have a successful cooperation with some big names in industry that last many years now. For a small family business originated from Bosnia (small country in Southeastern Europe) that’s a pretty big achievement. We feel proud and grateful at the same time considering all that.
Thank you for your trust.
