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Color Lithophane • 3D Print Guide (2022 Update) • ItsLitho

3D Printed Color Lithophane

Create your own 3D Printed Color Lithophane

Lithophanes themselves are already stunning to make, but color lithophanes are even more surprising. 

No one is expecting a regular piece of white plastic to turn into a colorful detailed image.

Our method is simple and accessible to anyone. You only need one color of plastic, a piece of (transparent) paper & some magic from ItsLitho.

So let’s dive in, and begin with your colored lithophane!

3D Printed Color Lithophane

Requirements

Material recommendations

What is a color lithophane?

Normally, we print a lithophane with some semi-translucent filament plastic. When you shine a light through the lithophane a monochromic image will appear. It means that just one “color” with different intensities will show up.

Normally, we print a lithophane with some semi-translucent filament plastic. When you shine a light through the lithophane a monochromic image will appear. It means that just one “color” with different intensities will show up.

Monochromic Lithophane - By Shawn Sadler

But with the colored lithophane, we want to express multiple colors as well as different intensity’s. 

With our simple method this can be achieved by using a piece of paper with the image behind the lithophane.

However, your original picture will not work. Why? Because the lithophane has intensity (brightness) information in it, due to the varying thickness of the lithophane.

Therefore, if you were to use the original picture, then the colors would appear different then the original colors.

Luckily, ItsLitho will automatically convert your image to a tailor-made image you can put behind your lithophane.

Tailor-Made image for the color lithophane

The intensity levels in the picture are removed, which may look weird on paper. But looks amazing when you put it behind your lithophane!

The tailor-made images downloaded in ItsLitho also have the exact dimensions of the generated lithophane!

This will spare you a lot of time resing the image to the dimensions of your lithophane.  

3D Printed Color Lithophane

Personalize Your Lithophane

First, create your lithophane using the ItsLitho tool. You can create your lithophane  in four simple steps:

Step 1 | Upload your image(s) 

Select the image(s) you would like to use for your lithophane.

Step 2 | Edit your image(s) 

This is optional, but you can enhance the contrast of your lithophane by adjusting your image. Even for the color lithophane, this can enhance the darker parts of your image.

Step 3 | Create your 3D model Lithophane

Enhance the contrast of your lithophane by adjusting your image. Even for the color lithophane, this can enhance the darker parts of your image.

Step 4 | Download your lithophane & Colorful image 

After you press the download button you’ll get a pop-up. Now your lithophane will be created! Here you will need the download your lithophane & color lithophane image.

You will get the following files: