--- title: How To Finish Leather - Giardini Academy description: In this How-To-Do section you will find several tutorial to achieve different finishing on natural leather and more. Each tutorial include the opportunity to download a Mini-Guide that you can save and keep as memo. --- [![Logo Giardini Academy](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/WEBSITE%20Sep2017/Images/logo_giardini_academy-1.png?width=320&name=logo_giardini_academy-1.png "Logo Giardini Academy")](https://www-leatheredgepaint-com.sandbox.hs-sites.com/leather-finish-academy?hsLang=en) [![Get Started!](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/1828330/63061a13-0cd5-4dd0-96df-68abf3782211.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1828330/63061a13-0cd5-4dd0-96df-68abf3782211) # **How to Finish Leather** --- In this How-To-Do section you will find several tutorial to achieve different finishing on natural leather and more. Each tutorial include the opportunity to download a Mini-Guide that you can save and keep as memo. [ACADEMY](https://www-leatheredgepaint-com.sandbox.hs-sites.com/leather-finish-academy?hsLang=en) » [HOW-TO-DO](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com/how-to-finish-leather-academy?hsLang=en) » LEATHER FINISH **LEATHER FINISH** #### **How to Dye Natural Leather** Let's learn how to dye natural leather and make it of your favourite color. The process works both on Veg Tanned Leather and on Chrome Tanned Leather. --- [![Learn More »](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/1828330/a249fe1d-c897-4440-8c34-06a387ec339e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1828330/a249fe1d-c897-4440-8c34-06a387ec339e) **LEATHER FINISH** #### **How to Reduce Leather Dye Transfer** Let’s learn now how to reduce the leather dye rubbing off to the minimum, and how to test it at home. --- [![Learn More »](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/1828330/4222f6ef-9c98-4338-befc-9a416e2f4bfc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1828330/4222f6ef-9c98-4338-befc-9a416e2f4bfc) **LEATHER FINISH** #### **How to Get a Leather Gloss Finish** Let’s learn now how to get a gloss finish on your leather, starting from a natural leather that has been dyed using MAXCRAFT Leather Dye and proceeding with MAXCRAFT Leather Gloss finish to increase it shininess. --- [![Learn More »](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/1828330/32fd7353-0262-43eb-8a79-8376c7ae4eb7.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1828330/32fd7353-0262-43eb-8a79-8376c7ae4eb7) **LEATHER FINISH** #### **How to Lighten a Leather Dye Color** Learn how to make a leather dye color lighter. To achieve this goal we the Leather Dye Thinner that has been specifically designed to work in combination with MAXCRAFT Leather Dye to get a lighter leather dye color shade. --- [![Learn More »](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/1828330/07e586c6-a424-40ce-ab54-f857b04fe05e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1828330/07e586c6-a424-40ce-ab54-f857b04fe05e) ### Resources: - [**[Blog]** Veg-Tanned Natural Leather](https://blog.leatheredgepaint.com/veg-tanning-process-for-natural-leather?hsLang=en) - [**[Blog]** What is leather dye?](https://blog.leatheredgepaint.com/what-is-leather-dye?hsLang=en) - [**[Blog]** 3+1 Features a Leather Dye Must Have](https://blog.leatheredgepaint.com/3-features-a-leather-dye-must-have?hsLang=en) - [**[Blog]** The difference between Alcohol-Based and Water-Based Leather Dye](https://blog.leatheredgepaint.com/the-difference-between-alcohol-based-and-water-based-leather-dye?hsLang=en) ### **The Purpose of Giardini Academy** Giardini Academy has been created in 2018 to share with all the leather crafters the knowledge collected during our daily job. Working with many different kind of customers we are continuously growing a clear overview of the common issues, problems, questions that leather crafters has. This is the feed of our R&D department that have always many topic to develop and new products and techniques are continuously developed. The Giardini Academy is the container that will include all this knowledges and will share for free with all the leather crafters looking to improve their leather goods. Know Us Educational Let Us Help You Legal Info --- [** ](https://www.facebook.com/leatheredgepaint/) [** ](https://www.instagram.com/giardinigroup/) [** ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/giardini-group) [** ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0G43DJh8L12mBg1SQOlEA) [![Giardini Group](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com/hs-fs/hubfs/WEBSITE%20Sep2017/giardini-logo271x40.png?width=136&height=20&name=giardini-logo271x40.png "Giardini Group")](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com?hsLang=en) [English](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com/how-to-finish-leather-surface-academy#) | [Italiano](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com/how-to-finish-leather-surface-academy#) | [Espanol](https://www.leatheredgepaint.com/how-to-finish-leather-surface-academy#)