How to Change the Colours of Your Own Poster Before You Print It

16 August 2026·5 min read

You have made something you like, but on your wall it is a little too bright, or a little too cool, or you suddenly want it in black and white. You can change all of that yourself before you order — and see the result on your actual picture, at full size, in a room, before you spend anything.

This is only offered on your own creations. A catalogue piece is a photograph of something we hold, so recolouring it would promise a print we cannot match. Your artwork is yours to treat.

Start with a look, then adjust

Open a creation and you will find Your Colours above the Add to Bag button. Eleven ready-made looks sit there, each one previewing on *your* picture rather than on a sample — so choosing is looking, not reading.

Vibrant Resonance of Krishna, the original artwork colours — The original — Vibrant Resonance of Krishna, a user creation. Every example below is this same artwork; nothing else changed.

The same artwork with the Vivid preset applied — **Vivid** — Contrast +8%, Colour Strength +35%. Good for a room with plenty of light to compete with.

The same artwork with the Soft preset applied — **Soft** — Brightness +3%, Contrast −6%, Colour Strength −22%. Calmer; sits back rather than shouting.

Warmer or cooler, to suit the light

Light is the thing most people forget. A north-facing room in the afternoon is warm and orange; a south-facing one is cooler and bluer. The same print genuinely looks different in each.

The artwork warmed — **Warm** — Colour Strength +8%, Warmth warmer 22. Suits cool rooms and grey daylight.

The artwork cooled — **Cool** — Colour Strength +5%, Warmth cooler 22. Steadies a room that already runs warm.

Tip: Judge it on the big picture, not the thumbnails. Tap the preview to open it full size — a treatment that looks lovely at 150px can be far too strong at poster scale.

See it on a wall before you buy

Once you have a look you like, step through to the room views. We render your creation in the colours you chose — not the original — so what you are judging is the thing you are about to buy. Those rooms are made for you and thrown away afterwards; they are never added to the product.

What actually gets printed

This is the part worth knowing. The preview is not an impression of your settings — it is the same calculation the printer receives. One set of numbers is worked out when you move a slider, and both your screen and the print file are produced from it. There is no second interpretation in between to drift.

Your original file is never touched. We keep it exactly as you made it and apply your colours to a copy when it is time to print, so nothing you do here can spoil the artwork — and you can always press Reset and start again.

Ordering more than one

If you are buying several of your own pieces for one wall, set the look on the first, then use Use On Another and apply it on the next. It saves matching four sliders by eye three times over, and the set arrives looking like a set. There is a whole guide on that: Matching Wall Art to Your Room’s Colours.

Every example on this page is a user creation — a piece somebody designed themselves and had made. You can browse the whole shelf, or start your own.

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