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Pet memorial portraits from a photo you already have

By the Framed & Fabled studio team, founded by a professional portrait photographer · Updated September 19, 2026

If you are here, you have probably lost someone with fur. We are sorry. This page explains, plainly, how a memorial portrait works, what it costs, and what happens to the photo, so you can decide without any pressure.

You upload one photo. In about ten seconds you see it as a painting in one of four memorial styles. If it is right, you order a print, a framed print, or a canvas. If it is not, you try another photo or another style, or you close the tab and nothing is kept.

The portrait is made from your photo, not from a template, so it is their face, their markings, the particular tilt of their head. That is the whole point.

How it works

Four steps, no account, no payment until you have seen the result.

  • Upload a photo from your phone or computer. Location data is stripped the moment it arrives.
  • Pick a memorial style. The preview appears in about ten seconds. Try all four; try several photos.
  • Choose a fine-art print, a framed print, or a gallery canvas, from 8x10 up to 24x36.
  • We print it in the USA and ship it in 2 to 3 business days. The image you previewed is the exact image we print; we never regenerate it.

From the studio: The photo does not need to be good. A slightly blurry phone snapshot where you can see both eyes will usually make a better portrait than a sharp photo taken from across the yard. Face first, everything else second.

The four memorial styles

Rainbow Bridge is a loose watercolor: your pet standing in a soft meadow under a gentle rainbow, painted in washes that bleed into white paper. It is the one families with children most often choose.

Always With You is charcoal and graphite on warm toned paper, the face drawn with loving detail and a single soft light from above. It is quiet and looks right in a bedroom or a hallway.

In Loving Memory Oil is a classical oil portrait: dark, softly lit background, old-master glazing, a warm glow behind the head, and a single white lily. It is the most formal of the four and the one most often given as a gift.

Watching Over places them resting among sunlit clouds, gazing gently downward, painted with a calm, weightless softness. People who describe their pet as their guardian tend to choose this one.

None of the four adds text to the art. The name and dates, if you want them, go on a small plate on the frame or on the back of the print, and the picture stays a picture.

Choosing the photo (old, blurry, and screenshot photos are welcome)

We were founded by a portrait photographer, so here is the honest version of what matters in the source photo. The face needs to be visible, ideally with both eyes. Lighting barely matters; the style supplies its own light. Background does not matter at all; the style replaces it. Resolution matters less than you would think: a screenshot from an old social post, a scan of a print, or a crop from a group photo all work as long as the face is not smaller than a coin on your screen.

What we cannot fix: a photo where the face is turned fully away, a face covered by a hand or a toy, or a photo so small that the eyes are just a few pixels. If the preview does not look like them, try another photo before you try another style; the photo is almost always the reason.

If your pet is still with you and old or ill, take the photo now, today, at their eye level, near a window, and take twenty of them. You will not regret having them.

What it costs

Prices are the same for every style and there is nothing extra for memorial styles. Shipping in the US is free.

  • Fine-art print on archival matte paper: 8x10 $49 · 11x14 $69 · 12x16 $89 · 18x24 $109 · 24x36 $139.
  • Framed print (solid wood frame, ready to hang): from $79 at 8x10.
  • Gallery canvas, hand-stretched: 8x10 $69 · 12x16 $89 · 18x24 $109 · 24x36 $139.
  • Digital file for your phone and for sharing: $39, or $5 added to any print.
  • A second portrait in the same order, for example a second style or a second pet, is 25 percent off.

What we never do with the photo

Your photo is never used to train AI, never sold or shared, never used in our marketing, and never seen by a person except for a quality check of the print file you paid for. Unpurchased photos and previews are erased seven days after your last visit; purchased files are erased thirty days after delivery. You can erase everything sooner with one button on our photo promise page, no account needed. We only use paid, enterprise-grade AI services whose contracts say they do not train on customer images.

Giving one as a gift

A memorial portrait is one of the few sympathy gifts that is about their pet specifically, which is why it lands where a generic keepsake does not. You need one photo of the pet; a mutual friend, a family member, or their own social posts (with a quiet ask) will have one. Order it to ship to them, or to you if you want to hand it over in person.

If time matters, the digital version arrives the same day and can be printed locally or kept on a phone. If you are unsure about styles, the charcoal Always With You is the safest choice for a gift; it suits every breed and every home.

What to write in the card is its own question; we wrote a guide for it, linked below.

If grief is heavy right now

If the grief is heavier than you expected, that is normal, and there is help that costs nothing: the ASPCA Pet Loss Support line (877-474-3310), the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement at aplb.org, and many veterinary schools run pet-loss support lines and groups. Your veterinarian can point you to one nearby. If it is affecting sleep, work, or eating for more than a few weeks, talk to a doctor or a counselor. Grieving an animal is real grief.

See your photo as a memorial portrait

One photo, about ten seconds, no signup. Nothing is charged until you have seen it. Prints from $49, canvas from $69, printed in the USA.

Unpurchased photos are auto-deleted. Your images are never used for AI training or our marketing.

Questions people ask

Can you work from a blurry or very old photo?

Usually, yes. If both eyes are visible and the face is larger than a coin on your screen, the portrait will look like them. Scans of prints and screenshots work. The preview is free, so the easy way to find out is to try it.

Can I add their name and dates?

Not on the artwork itself; the memorial styles keep the picture clean. Most families add a small engraved plate to the frame or write on the back of the print. A name-and-dates option is on our list.

Can I include two pets?

If they are together in one photo, yes, choose a multi-pet style or a memorial style and the preview will show both. If they are in separate photos, order two portraits; the second is 25 percent off in the same order.

How long does it take to arrive?

Previews take about ten seconds. Prints and canvases ship in 2 to 3 business days from our US lab, then ground shipping, so most orders arrive within a week of ordering. Digital files arrive the same day.

What if the likeness is not right?

You will see the exact image before you pay, and we print that exact image. If something is wrong with the print, we regenerate once for free in any style or refund in full within 30 days of delivery.

Is the original photo kept?

No. Unpurchased photos are erased seven days after your last visit and purchased files thirty days after delivery, or immediately with the delete button on the photo promise page. Nothing is used for AI training or marketing.

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