Tips on How to Display Your Photo Crystal

Just want to share a few tips on how to display your photo crystal and make image inside more visible.

First, you can place the photo crystal piece against a darker background. It does not mean that you make the whole room darker. I put same piece of photo crystal in two different places. As you can see from these two images, in the one sitting against dark windows frame stud of my office, the image appears more visible; the other sitting on top of window stud you hardly see anything inside crystal.

The other thing you may try is to turn the crystal so that lights can shine through crystal from the sides, instead of front or back. Focused lights come through sides of crystal block get reflected by millions of dots inside of crystal, then captured by your eye. Those image dots you may not see otherwise if the lights shine through image from the front or back of photo crystal. People put crystal on top of light based for the same reason.

Some people told me that they still can not see the image clearly after adopted both tips above. My suggestion then is that you talk to your photo crystal vendor and make sure it is not engraving quality issue, which can be caused either by poor original photo resolution, or poor “laser blast resolution” – number of points per square millimeter blasted by laser bean is too less. I discussed this in my Feb 18^th posting.