Horse stall signs with your horse’s photo
Most of our photo signs put the picture at one end and the name at the other. These are the layouts and settings you can choose from, plus some advice on which photo to use.
Where the photo goes
With a photo fade, the picture runs off one end of the sign and blends into the background color. A medallion puts the horse in a round frame instead. If you’d rather have a hard edge, there’s a layout with the photo in its own box, and the framed layouts add room for your farm’s logo.
Each of these can have the photo on the left or the right, and each comes as a 6×3″ mini.
Color, black and white, sepia or duotone
You can change how the photo prints. Black and white looks good on a dark sign and makes a messy background less noticeable. Sepia gives it a warm brown cast that goes with leather and wood colors.
Duotone turns the photo into two colors. By default it uses the sign’s darkest and lightest colors, so the picture matches the plate, but you can pick your own.
More photo, or more name
On the fade layouts there are two sliders. One sets how much of the sign the photo covers, from a quarter of it up to three quarters. The other sets how soft the edge is. Long names need a narrower photo so the lettering stays big.
Zoom in on the face
Drag the photo to move it around in its frame, and zoom in if the face is small. There are brightness and contrast sliders too, which help with photos taken in a dim stall or on a cloudy day.
Picking a photo
- Use a head shot, or head and neck. A whole horse standing in a field ends up tiny on a 12×6″ sign.
- Light on the face helps. A horse photographed against a bright sky can turn into a dark silhouette; turning up the brightness or switching to black and white usually fixes it.
- A phone photo is fine. Upload the original file, since screenshots and photos sent by text message are often shrunk.
- Plain backgrounds like sky or a blurry paddock blend into the sign better than a cluttered barn aisle.
- PNG, JPEG and WebP files work. You’ll see your photo on the sign before you order, and we look over every proof before it prints.
