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You choose your size, upload your photo at checkout, and a real person on our team converts your image by hand into a dot painting template. We print it onto a 240 g/m² polyester canvas, pack in dual-tip markers in every colour your image needs, and deliver your complete kit in 7 working days. You follow the colour-coded template and place each dot. No decisions to make. No guesswork.

Photos with a clear subject, good natural lighting, and strong contrast between subject and background produce the best results. Portraits, pets, couples, and landscapes all work beautifully when the focal point is sharp. Very dark photos, heavily blurred shots, and cluttered backgrounds are harder to convert. Our team checks every photo before printing and contacts you if anything will cause a problem before a single thing gets made.

Yes. The majority of our orders use phone photos. A recent smartphone photo taken in good light is almost always good enough. If your photo is very small in file size, very old, or taken in poor lighting, our team may ask for an alternative. When in doubt, send us the photo before ordering and we will tell you straight away.

Yes. Group photos work well in the larger sizes. For three or more people where faces and expressions matter, 60 x 80 cm is the minimum we recommend. In smaller sizes, faces in group shots lose detail and become very small. If you are not sure which size suits your specific photo, contact us before ordering. We will look at your image and give you a direct answer.

Every photo is reviewed by a real person on our team, not software. They look at your image, manually convert it into a dot painting template, check that the detail level suits the size you chose, and only send it to print when they are satisfied with the result. If something in your photo will not translate well, they contact you before anything is printed. You will never receive a kit that has not been individually checked and approved by a human being. This is what separates a Paint By Dots kit from any automatically generated alternative.

None. The canvas tells you everything. Every circle is printed with the colour it should be, in the exact position it belongs. You pick up the matching marker and place the dot. That is the entire technique. Within ten minutes of starting, it becomes automatic. Customers who have never picked up a paintbrush in their adult life complete beautiful pieces. The template does the hard work. You just show up.

Your custom pre-printed 240 g/m² polyester canvas with every circle positioned precisely from your photo. Dual-tip markers in every colour your specific image requires: a 1.0 mm tip for larger circles and a 0.5 mm fine tip for detailed areas. A quick-start guide covering technique, tips for clean dots, and how to handle small errors. Everything needed to start is in the box. Nothing additional to purchase.

It depends on the size. A 30 x 40 cm kit takes most people one to two sessions of around 60 to 90 minutes. An 80 x 120 cm typically takes five to seven sessions. Most people work across several evenings and find that losing track of time is part of the experience. The repetitive, focused nature of placing dots is genuinely meditative. Many customers tell us it is the first time in years they have sat for two hours without looking at their phone.

Diamond painting uses small flat plastic gems pressed onto a pre-coated adhesive canvas. The result has a sparkly mosaic appearance. Dot painting uses markers on a printed canvas to build the image through colour. The result looks like a painted artwork rather than a tiled mosaic. The two key practical differences: dot painting can be made from your own photo, producing a completely personalised result. Diamond painting is almost always a pre-set design. The second difference is durability: marker ink is permanent. Adhesive diamonds can loosen over time, especially in warm or humid rooms. Both are meditative, both produce something worth displaying. They are simply different things.

Your kit is handmade for your specific photo and takes up to 1-2 working days to produce and dispatch. This includes the manual photo review, the conversion process, canvas printing, packing, and quality check before it leaves us. Delivery to the UK after dispatch is typically 2 to 7 working days. If you need your kit by a specific date, contact us before ordering and we will confirm the exact timeline.

We deliver free to the UK with every order. We also ship across Europe. Delivery costs and times for other European countries are shown at checkout. All kits are produced in Europe, which means faster delivery, lower shipping emissions, and no customs delays or import fees for UK customers compared to kits shipped from outside Europe.