Guide: How To Select Images For Printed Splashbacks

PRINTED INNOVATIVE SPLASHBACKS® GUIDE ON HOW TO
SELECT AN IMAGE FOR YOUR SPLASHBACK & WALL PANELS

Innovative Splashbacks® Printed acrylic allows you to add personality and individual style to your kitchen, bathroom, laundry and any wall in your home or business.

Below is a useful guide on how to choose an image for your printed acrylic splashback & decorative wall panels.

To ensure your project result is a stunning feature, consideration is required when sourcing a high quality image for your printed acrylic splashback.

If you are unsure of what image you would like for your print there are thousands of high resolution images online, which is a great place to start when unsure of the image you want. However, when looking through the image choices there are some important points to consider.

Your project space - Take a look at the room around you and take inspiration from the colours and what the room is used for to help your ideas for the splashback.

1) Image Style

Whether you want a bathroom feature wall, shower splashback, kitchen splashback or outdoor entertaining area feature wall, you will need to decide on the image theme/style.

Are you wanting to use your own photograph or do you want a rainforest waterfall scene, night city skyline, beach scene, subdued graphics or bold and vibrant patterns?

images for printed splashbacks

A search through a reputable image library will assist in deciding on an image.

When choosing an image it is important to remember the room around it. Following the colour palette and overall style of your room when choosing an image will be a major factor in how the room looks in the end.

The size of your image must be taken into consideration. A printed splashback is always going to be a major feature to any room. Consider whether you want the design to take up the whole wall or just a smaller section, depending on where you intend to use a printed splashbacks/decorative wall panel.

2) Image Resolution & Where To Find An Image

Here we have the quality deal breaker! High resolution images and graphics cannot be underestimated.

Sourcing high resolution images/graphics/photographs for your printed splashback from a reputable online image library or a professional photographer is the quickest and easiest way to ensure a high quality finish.

Lower quality (lower resolution) images such as images from mobile phones or google images are not high resolution enough to print to splashback and wall panel sizes.

Below are a few of the online image libraries and you can search these sites by theme:

www.istockphoto.com
www.shutterstock.com
www.stock.adobe.com

You can also purchase images from professional landscape photographers and there are a number of them that sell their image printing rights.

When purchasing an image from online image library, you must select the highest available resolution and file size available. Low resolution images offer less detail and can appear blurry and pixelated.

When working with Innovative Splashbacks® for your printed splashback masterpiece, before purchasing your chosen digital image or if contemplating using your own image, we can advise if the image quality will be sufficient for project.

3) Unique Image, Graphic and Patterns

If you want a totally unique image, graphic or pattern our graphic designer and photographer can create a truly unique masterpiece for your splashback and wall panels.

Alternatively if you have an image you would like changed in some way, again our talented graphic designer can do pretty much anything you wish for your perfect splashback image.

4) Image Orientation

Ensure to select an image with a similar height and width ratio to that of your splashback and wall panel size.

image orientation

For example if you want a kitchen or laundry printed splashback and have seen an image online you like, you will need to ensure its orientation is landscape.

5) File Submission

Once you have chosen your desired digital image you can purchase the image.

You may find that the image file is too large to email to us. You can send it to us on a USB drive or via a file sharing service such as www.hightail.com.

Printed Innovative Splashbacks® are the affordable way to add that touch of class to your home and business.

Innovative Splashbacks have been providing commercial and residential clients all over Australia with our printed acrylic splashbacks for over 5 years.

We are proudly Australia's printed acrylic polymer splashback trailblazers; No one has been doing printed acrylic/polymer splashbacks longer or does them better.

www.innovativesplashbacks.com.au