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Dressing up a room can sometimes be expensive. You could buy new carpets, invest in some expensive furniture or redecorate entirely. It’ll have the desired effect and your room will look revitalised.

However a much cheaper alternative would be to create a new focal point in the room, something that demands attention and draws the eye from every angle. Artwork does this very well, but like redecorating, buying expensive artwork for your home can prove costly. A much better and cheaper option would be to have your photos printed on canvas and displayed in your room. Canvas prints are very impressive to the eye, and indeed to the touch because of their unique texture.

You can have any of your photos turned into canvas prints, in a variety of different sizes. Though obviously bigger canvas prints make for better focal points in the room. Photos of loved ones such as your children or parents would make for good subjects for photos to canvas, as would scenic landscape shots from your holidays.

So when you’re thinking of improving a room in your home, before you consider redecorating, consider having some of your photos printed on canvas.

Have you ever considered having your photos printed on canvas?

Paper has long been the medium of choice for printing photographs. Photos printed on paper can be stored in photo albums and safely kept out of harms way, or they can be framed elegantly and displayed on the wall for all of your friends and neighbours to see when they visit your home.

However paper isn’t the only medium on which to print photographs, nor is it the most attractive or eye-catching. Lately the medium of canvas has emerged as a favourite for photograph printing, with its delicate textures and impressive style.

Canvas has always traditionally been used by artists for creating masterpieces on, but now thanks to canvas printing techniques it’s very common to have photos printed on canvas. Turning photographs to canvas prints is a great way to show off your favourite photos to the very best of their potential.

Display your photos in a new and impressive way by printing them on canvas.

When you take photographs you might not necessarily think you’re creating art, but in fact you have all of the tools you need to do just that. Your photos don’t have to just be photos. Sure you can get them developed and save them in photo albums, or have them framed and display them on your wall, but you’re also able to make artwork from your photographs by having them printed on canvas.

Canvas prints are very cheap and easy to do, and can be made from your own photographs to create your own unique personalised art. Canvas is a stylish medium with interesting textures that brings the best out of any picture.

If you’ve got a selection of holiday photos and you’re interested in a unique way to display them, consider turning your photos to canvas prints and displaying them as works of art in your home.

You don’t need to spend a lot of money on original works of art if you’d like to display art in your home, you can make your own art out of your photos.

Since its launch in 2005, the Epson 9800 has heralded the new generation of inkjet printers. It can print a range of sizes, namely up to B0+, 44 inches wide, and can print onto several different media, including high quality canvas for the wall art market.

Its trademarked Micro Piezo print head technology means that the amount of ink being delivered is precisely controlled depending on the depth of colour intensity required. Also incorporated in the printer is Epson’s variable-sized droplet technology, which automatically adjusts the size of the ink droplet required to produce highly accurate results. Used alongside Epson’s K3 UltraChrome ink it is claimed to offer the ultimate in both colour and black and white printing. The addition of an extra tone of black ink means that monochrome images, and in particular monochrome skin tones, are produced with a depth and realism not previously seen.

Although priced outside the domestic market, it is competitive with other business printers, making it easier to obtain professionally produced images for any setting. Once printed, Epson are confident the images will remain in excellent definition for many years, stating them lightfast against fading for up to 75 years in colour and over 200 years in black and white.

A wedding is the most important day in a woman’s life. She dreams of the special day all of her life, since she was a little girl, and spends many hours thinking about it and planning it.

Wedding photos are one aspect of the big day, and a very important one at that. The wedding photos will be used to cherish memories of the wedding day, so will need to be of a very high quality. To keep your wedding photos you can have them printed and stored in a special commemorative wedding album, which you can look back on fondly, however a wedding album is often stored away in a drawer on a shelf. It’s not visible all of the time.

You can display your wedding photos on your wall every day by having them printed on canvas. Canvas printing is a great way of showing off the photographs from your big day as the texture of the canvas makes the bride look more radiant and her dress look more spectacular. Canvas is a special medium and is perfect for printing those important wedding photographs.

Don’t hide your best wedding pictures away in a drawer, print your photos to canvas and display them on your wall.

When it comes to having your photos printed, the medium to have them printed on isn’t the only decision you have to make. If you decide to have your photos printed on canvas, as opposed to more conventional mediums such as paper, you then have to decide whether to have them printed as regular photographic prints, or to have them turned into art with photographic effects.

If you have them printed on canvas as is, they’ll make excellent canvas prints and will look great displayed on your wall, but you can decide to have your photographs turned into an art form first. For example, you could have your photos transformed into an Andy Warhol inspired piece of pop-art with bright vibrant colours and minimal details, and the image repeated on the canvas four times, each in different colours.

It’s not just celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley that have their images turned into pop-art, you can have your own photos printed on canvas in a pop-art style as well. Become an icon of the twentieth century yourself with a unique canvas print.

Canvas material is traditionally used for artists to paint works of art in mediums such as acrylic, water colours or oil paints. It has long been seen as an elite medium bought by the rich to decorate their homes. Now though canvas is more attainable by regular people as it is now also used as a medium on which to print photographs.

By printing photos on canvas anyone can own a fabulous piece of canvas art themselves for very little money. This once elite art form is now available to the masses, for their own personalised usage. Gone are the days when only the elite could have their own portraits on canvas, commissioned by a professional artist and taking weeks, sometimes even months, to complete. With today’s canvas printing technology anyone can have their portrait or that of their family printed on canvas.

The breakthrough of printing photos to canvas has made canvas photos very popular in a short space of time. Photos to canvas is both an elegant and economical way of owning an original piece of artwork for your home.

Photos of your children are always a great thing to have around your home. They make your home look more personal and show your children through the various development stages of their lives. You can have pictures framed and hung on the wall or even displayed on the sideboard, fireplace or windowsill.

A more unique way to display photographs of your children however is by printing on canvas. Your children’s faces will look beautiful when they are printed on canvas, and displayed proudly on your wall. The canvas texture brings out the best in the colours and makes the photos look like they are works of art.

By printing your children’s photos to canvas you can show off your little angels in a new and stylish way, plus it’s not a particularly expensive method of printing photos either. If you wanted an original canvas art piece for your home you’d be paying considerably more for the work than if you just opted for canvas prints.

So if you have some photos of your children already that you’d like displayed in your home in a new way, you should consider having them printed on canvas.

If you’d like to have a great canvas work on your wall in your home, you used to have two options. Either go out and buy one from an art dealer or an auction, which could prove very expensive, or paint one yourself. If you don’t have the money to buy an original canvas and you don’t have the artistic ability to paint one, you’d have to make do with cheaper photographs on your wall.

Now things have changed, as anyone can own an original canvas by having their photos printed on canvas. You don’t need to be an artist or an art collector to own your own canvas. You can take pictures with your camera and choose the best of your photos to print on canvas, having an original and unique artistic canvas print on your wall.

The best thinking about transforming your photos to canvas is that they’re your own personal images. You’re not having someone else’s pictures displayed on your own; they’re special to you because you’ve taken them. They can be of your friends, your family, your children or even your pets.

Have your own photos printed on canvas for personalised art in your home.

Andy Warhol would have been eighty years old this Wednesday, had he not tragically died some years after a crazed fan shot him. Even years after death, and years after his studio known as the ‘Factory’, Andy Warhol is still trend setting in his beloved New York.

As well changing the face of Art with his Pop Art that has inspired a host of imitators, a spate of canvas prints, he’s worked his magic on the fashion world.

Stylists in New York and L.A. are taking their lead from the Pop Art master’s ‘Factory Girl’ Edie Sedgwick.

Beth Charleston is a fashion historian at the New School of Design; Parsons.

The pop-art look is about the contrast between black and white - both in clothing and hair and makeup.

The two most obvious [of Warhol's factory girls], Edie Sedgwick and Nico, played up the contrast between black and white with bleach-blond hair and heavy black eye makeup.

Big earrings, and a chunky shoe like a thick wedge or a Mary Jane with a bit of a heel.

So if you thought Andy Warhol had only touched the art world you’d be wrong, his influence stretches far beyond just the realms of fashion.