The ears are the outline, so they stay in
You could pick out a corgi from its silhouette alone: two enormous upright ears over a fox's face. Those ears are also the first thing a tight crop cuts off at the tips, and a corgi without them looks like somebody else's dog. Start from your photo with both ears in frame and the artwork keeps them, along with the blaze and the open-mouthed grin.
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How this coat prints
Most corgis are some shade of red or sable with white on the chest, collar and blaze, and a warm red coat wants something cool behind it. That's the logic of the two shirts shown: navy sets off the red without competing with it, and seafoam does the same job on the light side while the dark eyes and nose anchor the face. A sable's black-tipped hair over the head and back is texture as much as colour, so it comes through best from a close, sharp photo. Black-headed tricolours carry more dark in the face and read especially well on the seafoam.
The photo to use
Corgi ears go flat when the dog is unsure, being fussed or mid-zoomie, so say the word that lifts yours — walk, treat, whatever works — just before you press the shutter. Leave a hand's width of space above the tips: the app crops your photo to a square, and the tips are the first thing that square loses. Shoot by daylight rather than under a ceiling bulb, which pushes a red coat toward orange and turns sable muddy, and the artwork keeps the colour the photo records.
Presets that suit this dog
Corgis lived in the British royal household for most of a century, so a jewelled gold crown and an ermine-trimmed cape read less as a costume than as a uniform.
Surf Club stands the whole dog up on a short pale-wood board, the rare picture where a corgi's short legs and sturdy chest share the frame with those ears.
Gold Name is set up to show the whole head with both ears fully in frame and clear space above them, which is exactly the brief a corgi needs, with the name set in gold behind.
Questions
I have a Cardigan, not a Pembroke. Does that matter?
Not to the artwork, which only ever works from the dog in your picture. A Cardigan's larger, rounder-tipped ears and its brindle or blue merle coat come through as they are, brindle stripes and merle marbling included.
My corgi is a fluffy. Will the long coat look messy?
It will look like a fluffy, which is the point. Long coat is texture, and texture carries through from a sharp photo — brush the ear fringes first if you like them neat, because whatever state they're in is what gets printed.
Will the shirt show the fairy saddle?
Usually not — the saddle sits over the shoulders, and most presets compose around the face, so it's mostly out of shot; Surf Club, which shows the whole dog on its board, is the exception. Everything on the face does carry through: the sable cap, the widow's peak, the line of the blaze.
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