Your lab, down to the grey on the muzzle
Labs age visibly, and the grey coming in around the muzzle is usually the part owners are most attached to. Generic lab artwork is always a young dog. This isn't — it's the lab you have now.
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How this coat prints
Labs come in three coats that behave completely differently as ink. Yellow labs have the widest tonal range and print anywhere. Chocolate labs sit in the middle and look best on cream or butter, where the shirt colour separates from the coat. Black labs are the hard case: on a black shirt a black dog can disappear entirely, so the artwork has to build the dog out of highlights instead of shadows, and the shirt colour matters more than the preset.
The photo to use
Labs have a shine to the coat that turns into a white blowout under direct sun — shade is better for every colour of lab, and essential for a black one. Catch the eyes: a lab's eye colour ranges from amber to near-black, it's a big part of the face, and a squint loses it. If your lab is black, photograph against something lighter than the dog so the outline is unmistakable.
Presets that suit this dog
Questions
I have a black lab. Which shirt colour should I pick?
For photoreal presets, a light shirt — ivory, butter or chambray — so the dog reads as a distinct shape. For One Ink, the opposite: a dark shirt, because the ink is bone-coloured and the shirt becomes the shadow.
Will a chocolate lab look muddy?
Not with the right shirt. Chocolate on black loses its edges; chocolate on ivory or butter is where that coat looks best.
My lab won't sit still. How good does the photo have to be?
Sharp and well lit matters more than posed. One clear head-on frame is enough, and previews are free — if the first attempt isn't right, take another photo and try again.
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