FaceUp3D — turn a photo into a printable relief

Built for relief, not full sculpture

FaceUp3D reconstructs depth from a single photograph and turns it into a bas-relief — the raised, one-sided detail you'd find on a coin, medallion, plaque, or stamp. It's not a substitute for 3D scanning or full sculpting software, and it won't produce a free-standing model meant to be viewed from every angle. If your project needs to be struck, embossed, or mounted flat, this is the right tool. If it needs to be walked around, it isn't.

Image editing

Four tools, one goal: the cleanest STL you can print.

A raw photo rarely makes a good relief on its own — noise, harsh reflections, and busy backgrounds all turn into printed artifacts. Edit before you convert, and the model comes out clean the first time.

Smoothing

Basic Filtering

Blur, sharpen, and denoise to settle a noisy photo before it becomes a bumpy print.

Definition

Edge Detection

Pull out the lines that actually matter — hairlines, jaw, fabric folds — so fine detail survives at print scale.

Tone

Color Correction

Balance exposure and color cast so luminance — which becomes physical height — reads accurately.

Depth

Contrast Adjustment

Stretch or compress the tonal range to control exactly how much relief depth your printer has to resolve.

Configuration

One image, a wide range of shapes to strike it into.

Every project starts the same way — an image and a set of edits — but where it ends up is up to you. Pick the geometry that matches what you're making, then tune size, thickness, and projection to fit your printer.

Plane / Stamp

A flat plaque or stamp face, single- or double-sided, with adjustable width, thickness, and projection depth.

Cylinder

Wrap your relief around a cylinder — with an optional logo on the end cap — for mugs, rings, and cylindrical medallions.

Cube

Add up to five more images to the remaining faces, for a block with a different relief on every side.

Custom rotation profile

Draw your own lathe profile — a coin edge, a bezel, a vase — and use it as the base your relief sits on.

An example

Say you want to strike a coin.

Upload a clear, well-lit photo — the sharper the original, the more detail survives the conversion.
Edit with the filtering tools until the preview shows confident lines instead of noise.
Choose Plane or a custom rotation profile to shape the rim and set the coin's diameter and thickness.
Export a print-ready STL, sized and thick enough to hold its detail once it's off the printer.

Medals, plaques, and stamps follow the exact same path — only the geometry changes.

Every photo has a relief hiding inside it.