Before we had our house extension we didn’t have a separate lounge as it was a lounge dining room. But when we built the kitchen dining room across the back of the house, we had a wall built across. This made a new lounge at the front of the house, but we also gained an alcove either side of the fireplace.
I’ve always wanted to have this symmetrical look to the lounge as it gave me the opportunity to add some artwork to this space.
Although once my new lounge was created and decorated, I felt the alcoves needed some lighting in. In the evenings this gave us a warm feeling to the room and makes it all cosy. So if I was adding some lighting here, some artwork underneath would be great.
That’s when I thought about the Personalised Silhouette Prints and could I make them myself?
How I Made Personalised Silhouette Prints
- First off take a photo on a clean background, and make sure there isn’t anything in the background to make it easier for yourself.
- I used a white background, but then make sure you wear contrasting colour clothing, with clean lines.
- Looking sideways
- I tied my hair up as this works better once you put it in the photo editor
- I used Adobe Photoshop to edit the photo
- Once loaded into here, crop the photo to the size and selection of the person you would like in the image. I was using an A4 size print in my frame
- Use the magic wand cursor and click on the white space outside of the person
- You’ll see the area get selected, use the shift key to click on areas that the magic wand hasn’t selected. You can keep doing this until the dotted line is perfectly around the person.
- Then use the paintbrush to fill the background to white
- Choose ‘select’ on the top menu and click on ‘inverse’. This selects the person area
- Then you can select the paintbrush again and choose black, click on the person and it will change to black. Keep clicking until it goes completely black.
- You can use the eraser to rub out any black bits you don’t want
When then created a picture frame mount to go around the print, making a much bigger framed photo. But you could make these personalised silhouette prints any size you want and once saved off you could get them professionally printed at any size.
24 Comments
Looks great! The lighting really sets them off too. I quite fancy doing this, plus a silhouette has the added bonus of not showing my wrinkles!
Thanks, lol yes good for that!
Wow, these look absolutely brilliant! Great idea, thank you
Thank you very much
What an amazing idea! They look fab too
Thanks!
This is so clever! I’d love to give this a go one day.
Thanks, good luck
Wow! What an incredible idea. This is so impressive. I’d love to do the same in our house. I’m thinking this could work in the bedroom too!
Oh yes they would look lovely in the bedroom too
What a fantastic, simple but effective idea! And it looks awesome either side of the fireplace!
Thank you very much
Wow, I love these. They’re so clever. Also loving the pink of your walls!
Bit brave isn’t it, but love it and it works so well
These are a fab idea. Your living room looks so cosy!
Thanks, it’s super cosy in the eveings
These are great! I bought two silhouettes of my digs but now I may try and make some more. Thank you
Oh how cute, I should do one of our dog!
I love this idea. So unusual! It’s hard to find some kind of artwork that is really unique to your family. I will have to give these a try.
Cool, good luck!
Great tips, thanks for sharing! Cannot wait to try it out
Thanks!
This is such a good idea, I would love to try something like this ❤️
Thanks!