Determining How Your Photographs Will Look on a Phone Case

I recently wrote a post suggesting phone cases as Christmas gifts.  My Fine Art America account allows me to offer my photographs for use on phone cases.  One of the problems I have had is determining how those photos would actually look when used.

I recently created an account on RedBubble.  It offers a wider range of products than Fine Art America.  (I am planning on creating accounts on Zazzle and CafePress as well).  RedBubble offers a template for use with iPhone and iPad cases.

This template does give a better idea as to how the final product will look, but it still isn't perfect.  I decided to create a template that works better when trying to determine how an image will look on an iPhone case (based on the RedBubble template).

The white area is actually transparent.  This allows the underlying image to show through in that area.  The gray is set to 50% transparency.  This area corresponds to the sides of the case.  This portion of the image will be printed on the case, but not visible when only the front can be seen.

The black area represents an area not printed when using RedBubble.  It's there so that the image can still be used if the case design changes.

Here's how the template looks over an actual image:

The template was placed over the image for best results then cropped to the template size.  This looks like it should work well for a phone case.  The main subject is completely on the front of the case and fairly well located.