The short answers
Questions
Checked against our own catalogue, style manifests and shipping table. Each answer is also on the page it came from. For anything else, support@painted.app.
How many styles are there?
Twelve, in four rooms: The Marine Room, The Yacht Club, The Chart Table and The Harbour. Each one comes back twice, as an upright and as a broadside.
What photograph do I send?
One photograph of one boat, the whole hull in frame, side-on or on the quarter, in daylight. Phone photos are fine. A marina full of masts is not: one boat gets picked, and it may not be yours. JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 12 MB.
Will it still look like my boat?
That is the rule every prompt carries ahead of the style: her hull lines, sheer, freeboard, rig and sail plan, superstructure, colour and waterline kept as photographed, never swapped for another design. The engine paints over your own photograph, so it starts from her. Some renders still miss a detail, which is why looking is free and every render is yours to refuse.
Will her name be on the painting?
Only if it is in your photograph. The name on her transom stays exactly as photographed and is the only lettering the engine paints; if your photograph shows no name, the painting carries none. To add her name and home port under the picture, use the type desk after the render: it sets them in the lettering of the period, and the engine never letters the picture itself.
What will you not paint?
People’s faces: crew stay small figures on deck, faces not visible. Naval or military vessels. Added logos, brand wordmarks, flags, burgees or sail numbers that are not in your photograph. A boat sinking, wrecked, on fire or in distress: heavy weather appears only as weather she is handling well. A photograph that is not of a boat is refused with one sentence before the engine sees it, and no pass is spent.
How long does a render take?
Usually 60 to 120 seconds, both shapes at once. The upright lands at 1024 × 1536 and the broadside at 1536 × 1024.
What happens to my photograph?
It goes to the engine twice, once for the upright and once for the broadside, and is not kept. The render is stored so it can be printed: keep one and it lands on your wall, and write to us at support@painted.app and we delete it.
Do I have to buy the render?
No. Looking is free, and every render is yours to refuse: we only print the one you chose.
What does it cost?
Prints and apparel run from $45 to $600, plus a flat postage set from the printer's own quotes. Looking costs nothing, and the file of your own render is sold on its own.
Who runs Painted Hulls?
PaintedApp, LLC, the company behind every Painted studio. Write to support@painted.app, or by post to 1327 SE Tacoma St #394, Portland, OR 97202.
How many renders are free?
Four passes, on the house. A pass is one photograph through the engine, and it comes back twice: the upright and the broadside. After the four, ten more passes are $10.
How big does it print?
Up to 40 × 60″ on paper and 24 × 36″ on canvas. What you see on screen is what goes to the printer, rebuilt at print resolution the moment you pay.
Where do you ship?
To one hundred and twenty-one countries, from the nearest print house. Postage is a flat rate by size and region, set from the printer's own quotes for the biggest parcel in each size.
Can I cancel an order?
For an hour. A paid print order waits sixty minutes before it goes to the printer, and inside that hour one click on the confirmation page or your wall refunds it in full and nothing is produced. A file is delivered the moment you pay, so it skips the hold.
Whose boats are on the wall?
Nobody’s. The sloop and the Downeast lobster boat on the wall were made by the engine to sit for the samples, so no owner’s boat is shown without asking. Their paintings can be bought as prints like any other.