Make a Shradhanjali photo frame

Wording in Hindi and English

The Heading list has the lines most often seen on tribute photos. Pick one, or type your own.

Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and other languages

Tribute photos are made in many Indian languages. The frame can draw any script your phone or computer can type, using the fonts already on it, so you can write the heading and the name in Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam or Nepali.

We only include ready wording in Hindi and English, because those are the ones we have checked. For another language, type the words your family uses, and ask someone who reads the language to look at the preview before you share or print it. If a letter shows as an empty box, that device has no font for the script, so try another phone or computer.

Name, dates and the death anniversary

Write the name the way the family wants it read. Many families put a title before it, such as स्वर्गीय श्री (the late Shri), स्व. for short, or श्रीमती for a married woman. In Indian English, Late Shri and Late Smt. are common.

The Dates line takes the years only, such as 1948 - 2026, or the full dates, such as 15 March 1948 - 2 October 2026. Full dates are longer, so on a narrow card the line gets a little smaller to fit.

For a death anniversary, called पुण्यतिथि (punyatithi) and in many families barsi, change the heading to प्रथम पुण्यतिथि for the first year, or to First Death Anniversary. For later years, type the year you need, such as द्वितीय पुण्यतिथि for the second. Keep the dates as they are.

Printing for the prayer meeting

Set the print size before you download. Untick Keep aspect ratio, type the size in pixels, and the card grows to fill the page while the photo keeps its shape. A sharp original matters more than a big print: an old or small photo does not get clearer when printed larger, so A4 is often the safer size for it.

The editor saves up to 4096 pixels on a side, so a 12 by 18 inch print comes out at about 228 pixels per inch rather than 300. To send the file to a print shop over WhatsApp, attach it as a document. WhatsApp usually compresses photos, while a document keeps the file as it is.

Choosing and preparing the photo

• Pick a photo where the face is in focus and well lit. A recent photo the family likes often works better than a formal one.
• Crop a group photo down to one person with the Crop tool. Keep the face away from the edges, because the garland covers a thin strip around the photo.
• For an old printed photo, photograph it flat near a window in daylight, without flash, so there is no glare. Then crop away the album edges.
• If the photo is dark or faded, raise Brightness and Contrast a little in Adjust. The frame keeps its own colors.
• For a black and white photo inside the colored frame, tick Grayscale photo in Adjust.