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We review the photo
We look at light, detail, and framing so the image keeps its feeling at a small size.
The guide
How we make your photo magnets.
From the original photo to the finished magnet, our process combines careful cropping, premium materials, professional Epson printing, archival-grade photo paper, managed color, and hand finishing.
Our process
Our five production steps, made with care and the best materials on the market.
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We prepare the crop
We shape the square with enough room for faces, hands, pets, backgrounds, and small details.
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We care for the color
A managed color workflow helps keep warmth, natural skin tones, and stable print results.
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We print with premium materials
We use professional Epson printing, archival-grade photo paper, and carefully chosen magnetic stock.
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We finish by hand
We cut, check, and prepare every magnet in small batches before packing it.
Managed colour
Colour-managed printing, from coffee to final check.
Our mornings usually start in the workshop after a large cup of coffee. Then the serious part begins: preparing each photo so it prints as a keepsake, not as a random file thrown at a machine.
After many years around cinematographic colour, image preparation, and visual finishing, we built our print workflow around one principle: memories should not be ruined by preventable colour mistakes. Every image is checked for crop, density, contrast, skin tone, colour cast, and output format before it reaches paper.
For our 10x15 cm photo prints and printed magnet products, we work with an Epson ET-8500 photo-printing setup using Claria ET Premium 6-colour ink. The colour workflow matters as much as the printer. The same photographic paper can behave differently depending on the selected media mode, and the ET-8500/8550 hybrid ink set responds differently across glossy, matte, and fine-art papers.
That is why our process uses calibrated display checks, Epson media presets, ICC colour profiles, soft-proofing, and controlled final inspection. ICC profiles exist to translate colour between devices and their native colour spaces, helping an image keep its intended appearance as it moves from screen to print. For final print judgement, we use professional print-viewing principles such as ISO 3664 viewing conditions and ISO 13655 measurement concepts.
Our AI-assisted photo preflight is built at the core of the platform. The goal is not to replace human judgement. It is to flag photos that may print unnaturally, such as files with heavy phone filters, strange skin tones, crushed shadows, clipped highlights, low resolution, or a colour space that needs attention. The system will recommend the safest print path, ICC profile, and colour-space handling for each photo. Then we manually check the result before production.
The final result should feel simple to the customer: upload a photo, receive a warm, sharp, realistic print. Behind that simplicity is a carefully managed workflow designed to protect the colour, detail, and feeling of the memory.
This is just part of the whole process and the reason our magnets and prints look amazing.
With love, Andrei, Smaranda and Maia.
About us
Two film people, one tiny workshop, and a lot of magnets.
We are Andrei and Smaranda, graduates of UNATC, the National University of Theatre and Film Cinematography in Bucharest. We both love photography and video, and we have worked around images, light, colour, framing, and the kind of tiny visual details that make choosing one photo much harder than it should be.
Soul Magnets is what we do now, and we love it: small printed memories made with the care of two people who are very picky about visual results. We are artsy dreamers, but also driven enough to keep adjusting until it feels right. We are always in love with each other, with what we do, and of course with Maia, our daughter, who is part of the whole story.