Turn a photo of your dog or cat into a portrait you can frame.

Questions people actually ask

Does my photo get uploaded anywhere?

No. Every step — reading the photo, removing the background, cropping, resizing and building the room previews — runs inside your browser using WebAssembly. The image data never leaves your computer, and there is no server that could store it even if we wanted to.

What resolution does a pet portrait need to print well?

For a true 300 DPI print, multiply the print size in inches by 300: an 8x10 needs 2400x3000 pixels and a 16x20 needs 4800x6000 pixels. At 200 DPI — acceptable for anything hung on a wall rather than held — those become 1600x2000 and 3200x4000. A standard 12 MP iPhone photo is 3024x4032, which comfortably prints 8x10 but falls short at 16x20.

What is the catch with the free version?

The free version is the complete tool — every print size, background removal and the framed room previews, with no photo limit and no account. The one thing it does is stamp a petprintkit.com watermark across every image it exports, so free files are for seeing the result rather than printing it. When you are ready to print, a $5 one-time pass removes the watermark from everything you make from that photo. Sellers doing many photos a month have a Pro plan that removes it for all of them.

Is there a limit on how many photos I can run for free?

No. There is no photo limit, no daily cap and no trial period. Try every photo of your dog you have, one after another, and keep the one that works best — the free version is limited by the watermark on the output, not by how much you use it.

Does it work with iPhone HEIC photos?

Yes. HEIC and HEIF files are decoded in the browser automatically. A photo straight off an iPhone is usually HEIC, and it opens like any other.

Can it rescue a photo that is too small to print?

No, and it will not pretend to. Upscaling makes a file bigger without adding any detail the camera did not capture, so exports are never scaled up to hit a number: a size the photo cannot fill is exported at the resolution it genuinely has, with that honest DPI in the filename and in the read-me. What the tool gives you instead is knowing before you order, so you pick a size the photo can actually fill.

Do I need an account?

No. There are no accounts and no sign-up. The free version needs nothing at all, and the one-photo pass is a single checkout with no account behind it.

Which print sizes does it make?

Eleven standard frame sizes: 8x10 and 16x20 (4:5), 12x16 and 18x24 (3:4), 24x36 (2:3), 5x7 (5:7), 11x14 (11:14), 8x8 and 12x12 (square), plus A4 and A3 for UK, European and Australian frames. You frame your pet once and every size is cropped from that framing, so you are not re-cropping eleven times.

Can I see it framed before I print it?

Yes. Stage 4 places the finished portrait into 8 framed room scenes — living rooms, a hallway, sideboards, a bedside table and a home office, in a range of frame finishes — so you can see how it looks hung before you order a print. They render on your machine along with everything else.

Does it work for cats and horses, or only dogs?

Any animal with fur or hair. The matting model was trained on general subjects rather than dogs specifically, so cats, horses, rabbits and birds all work about as well as dogs do — cats often a little better, because whisker contrast is usually higher. How clean any of them come out depends far more on the photo than on the species: even light, and a background that is not the same color as the animal, matter more than anything else. Expect to spend a moment with the refine brush on a difficult one.