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Fracture Print |
Thanks to Fracture for providing me with product for this post. All thoughts are my own.
Confession
time: I am a picture person; I love taking pictures and, especially since
Little Bear was born, I love having his picture taken professionally.
He’s not even one and it’s already happened
five times, if you count the Mall Santa, which I do!
It’s probably vanity, although I’m not in
most of them, but I just love it!
And it
certainly helps to have a family friend who’s a professional photographer.
But, between friends, Santa, and many, many
cellphone shots, I have approximately one million pictures!
But, that’s exactly where almost all of them
are, on my cell phone and computer, not being “used” or displayed.
But
Christmas is the one time of year that I break out and actually do something
with my pictures: my “signature” gift for family is a framed photograph.
This will be true so much more this year
because we all know that the only thing anyone in my family really wants a
picture of is Little Bear!
In the past,
I’ve gotten a nice frame and then printed the pictures at the drug store, not
the best solution, but functional for my purposes.
One year I sprung and got my mom a very nice
gallery-wrapped canvas, which I thought was cool, but I can see now was a
little modern for her taste.
This year,
however, everything will be different, because I found
Fracture!
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Fracture Print |
Fracture
prints your photos directly onto glass that, similar to a gallery wrapped
canvas, is intended to be displayed without a frame.
It can either be hung directly onto your
wall—which is super easy, requiring only one screw, which they include in your
package—or displayed tabletop with a stand; either option is beautiful in
basically any room.
They are also very
cost-effective, starting at just $17.00—less than I have paid some years to
print my photo and get a decent frame! If you'd like your photo to look excellent you can use
photo retouching services to make it awesome.
The ordering
process is so easy, too! Simply go to their
website and upload your
picture!
Their system automatically
determines which size options will work best for your photo’s dimensions, so
you just pick the size you want and order!
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A screenshot of the ordering process |
Fracture takes care of everything else, hand cutting and preparing the
glass, printing your picture directly onto it—this prevents the fading over
time that will occur with pictures printed on paper—and mounting onto the
backing that allows you to display in your home!
Your picture comes to your door in about a
week, or around two days if you upgrade to express shipping!
They even offer free standard shipping with
purchases over $100, so get one for everyone in your family and they’ll come to
you for free!
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Fracture Prints in Packaging |
One of my
favorite things about Fracture is that you can get a beautiful print from
almost any photo, even a cellphone picture; they say that for best results, use
a picture that’s between 1MB and 35MB in size, which most modern cameras and
cellphones take, so you don’t need a professional photograph to make a
beautiful gift!
I ended up ordering two
prints: one professionally taken and one cellphone shot that I had cropped and
edited in an app; both turned out great and I couldn’t be more pleased!
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Left: cellphone picture, Right: Professional Picture |
I highly
recommend Fracture to anyone looking for a photo gift this season, whether for
their friends, for their family, or for even for themselves!
I have a picture that I ordered from them a few years ago. They are very nice!
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