About crystal pictures

When creating crystal pictures, 3 sizes of strasses are used: ss5, ss10 и ss16. For understanding their actual size you can compare them with a toothpick:



The smallest of them (ss5) is 1.8mm. This means it's thinner than the toothpick.
Now imagine that crystal picture consists of an average of 50000 strasses, which means that all 50000 strasses are affixed by hand. This is a very delicate, jewellery work. It is necessary not simply to apply glue, and then put exactly crystal in it, but also constantly check the sketch, because if the color of just one crystal is confused, the whole picture might be corrupted.

Maybe you already have a question: "Why pictures on the site are drawn? How crystal picture will look alive?"
The answer is simple — if we'll represent you photographs of crystal pictures, it will be really difficult to understand the details of pictures, strasses will shine and some small parts of paintings will be hidden beyond the dazzling brilliance of Swarovski crystals.

If you really interesting to know how the picture will look, we suggest you look through 3 stages of creation of sample portrait made of Swarovski crystals.

Stage 1

Preparation and processing photos.
Photo provided by the client is treated — adjusted background, if necessary, corrected deficiencies, selected contrast, brightness, saturation. Photo trims under the preferred size and desired proportions.
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Stage 2

Creating sketches.
From the finished processed photographs we create preliminary sketches. These sketches are adjusted — we choose the color and position of each strass.
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Of the pre-selected thumbnail sketch we create life-size with accurate and valid positions and colours of crystals. Such sketches of pictures are on our website.
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Stage 3

Creating the picture.
The longest and laborious stage starts — you must manually put tens of thousands strasses. The vertical and horizontal rows of strasses should be smooth, each crystal must be in its place. So long as the glue isnt finally dry, it can be massive shift of strasses, so even fortuitous touch of hand can spoil the picture and the work will have to do from the beginning.
And now, after dozens of hours of work (sometimes round-the-clock) crystal picture is born: