palm photo guide
A palm reading is only as good as the photo underneath it. Heartmap reads creases — their length, depth, breaks and branches — so the whole job is getting those folds lit and in focus. This is entertainment, not a test you can fail; a good photo just makes the reading specific about your hand instead of generic. Four things matter, and they take about twenty seconds.
light
Stand near a window in the daytime and face the light, so it lands evenly across the middle of the hand — exactly where the head and heart lines run. Leave the flash off and shoot in the plain camera app with any beauty or smoothing filter switched off: daylight and a plain lens are what hold the fine creases in relief.
hand
Relax the hand until the palm is flat and open, so every crease lies out at its full length instead of folding into the curve. Spread the fingers a little so the base of each one is visible.
distance
Roughly a forearm’s length, with the camera parallel to the palm rather than angled over it. That is the range where the phone holds focus and the fine branches still land as real detail. Brace your elbow against your side and tap the palm on screen to set focus before you shoot.
frame
Wrist crease at the bottom, fingertips near the top, and not much else in the shot. If half the picture is your kitchen, half the resolution is going to your kitchen too.
A drawing rather than a photograph — one hand, one phone, and the four rules above all held at once. Daylight coming in flat from the side, the palm open and square to the lens about a forearm away, and the frame spent on the hand and almost nothing else. Match this and the trace can follow your creases one by one.
what the trace can read
seen in your photo· a good frame · even light · flat palm
The old rule of thumb in palmistry is that the hand you write with shows what you have made of yourself, and the other one shows what you started with. Heartmap works with either, and it notes which hand it thinks it is looking at. If you are comparing with a friend, use the same hand as each other — it keeps the two traces honest against one another.
It is downscaled in your browser before it leaves the device, read in memory to produce the reading, and never stored. Nothing is posted anywhere, there is no account, and readings and invite links are deleted after 30 days. The image is sent to our AI provider to generate your reading. Choose a photo that shows only the hand you want read.