Lithophane generator

Turn an image into a printable height field — a raised relief, or an inverted lithophane that lights up from behind

Turn a photo into a lithophane: the picture is carved as thickness, so it reads as a flat plate until a light goes behind it. Pick an image, set the plate width, the base that keeps highlights opaque, and the relief depth the picture is carved into — the preview updates as you go. The photo is sampled in your browser. Download a print-ready STL or 3MF.

Open the customizer

How the Lithophane generator works

What you can adjust

• Width — 5–500 mm
• Base thickness — 0.1–20 mm
• Relief depth — 0.1–50 mm
• Smoothing — 0–4
• Invert (lithophane)