Print it on Canvas News

In today’s technological age it’s easy to share photos with family and friends. You can take pictures with your digital camera and upload them to social networking websites such as MySpace or Facebook, creating galleries and sharing them with your friends. Also you can share photos taken with mobile phones, either by uploading them directly to the Internet or by sending them as text messages or MMS messages.

However photos are not intended to be digital, seen only on screens and phones. No, photographs are made to be printed. They should be physical items, pictures you can pick up, touch and feel. However this doesn’t mean that you have to print the photos on paper and frame them, in a typical boring fashion. You can share your photos in new ways, such as by printing them on canvas. Photos printed on canvas are a great way to display your pictures and to share them with your friends and family. You can give them as gifts or show them off in your home, so that your friends can see them when they come round to visit.

Everyone’s given photographs as gifts at one point or another, whether they’re given framed or on cards for friends and family. However it’s not often than photos printed on canvas are given as gifts. Canvas prints make excellent presents, and can be given for a variety of occasions.

For example, you can give canvas prints as gifts for the following occasions:

House Warming
Whenever someone moves into a new home, they’ll want new furniture and decorations for their house. A beautiful framed picture is often given in this instance, but why not give a photo printed on canvas as a gift?

Anniversary
A canvas print of a photo of a couple would make an excellent gift for an anniversary.

Wedding Present
When the happy couple tie the knot, traditionally presents from the wedding list are given, but you could give the newlyweds a piece of canvas art as a gift. This would set them off in their new life together with a beautiful piece of art.

There are many other occasions for which a canvas print could be given as a gift.

You’ve been away on holiday. You’ve taken thousands and thousands of pictures. A good few of these pictures will have been deleted immediately after you took them. The flash was on. The flash wasn’t on. Somebody moved. Everybody blinked.

A great many more photos will have been deleted after you got home and had a chance to look through them properly. Maybe they were duplicates or couldn’t be rescued with computer software like you thought they could. Of the remainder, a great many won’t make it off the computer, but perhaps a select few will be printed and put in an album.

Of these printed few, there may be one or two photos which you’re really, really proud of. Maybe you captured the perfect view. Maybe you managed to take one of those rare photographs where everyone was looking nice. Photos like these deserve special attention, so why not have them printed to canvas?

If you print photos to canvas, they instantly become so much more than mere holiday snaps. A canvas print will light up any home. You can have one done in any size and when it’s framed on the wall, it will seem all the better for being your own handiwork.

The first major exhibition of photography ever to be held at Tate Britain takes a unique look at the history and development of photography in Britain. Anyone interested in the history of photography and the uses of photography will find some great printed pictures to marvel at.

The exhibition boasts a huge collection of images from all over the UK and includes famous pieces from Lewis Carroll, William Henry Fox Talbot, Bill Brandt and David Bailey. The entire collection includes a wonderful variety of postcards, albums and famous photographic pieces printed on canvas.

This wonderfully inspiring collection is a must for all photographic enthusiasts, whether you’re a professional photographer or an amateur photographer.

For the very first time, Tate Britain is also inviting members of the public to make their own unique contribution. How We Are Now invites you to add your photograph to the exhibition through the community and photo-sharing website Flickr

The exhibition will run from 22nd May – 2nd September 2008.

You may be wondering what sort of photos can be printed on canvas, whether the sort of pictures should just be landscapes of woodlands or portraits. In actual fact any types of pictures can be printed on canvas, as you can turn any photos to canvas prints.

Some ideas of the sort of pictures that can be printed on canvas are:

Wedding Photos
Photos from your big day make great canvas prints as your special moment is beautifully displayed onto a canvas.

Baby Pictures
Photos of your children, especially when they’re babies, are very precious. Printing your photographs of your baby onto canvas show how proud you are of your children.

Holiday photos
Holiday snaps don’t have to be stored away in photo albums and carted out whenever you want to show off to your neighbours about how tanned you were once! You can print your favourite holiday photos on canvas and display them on your wall so that whenever anyone comes round to your house they’ll see them.

Taking beautiful photos is a great hobby to have. You can create some truly stunning images with your camera by snapping pictures from nature, such as wildlife or landscape scenery. Some of the best pictures can be taken while out walking through the hills, fields or woods.

The question then is what is the best way to display your photos? You could have them blown up and framed to look like great prints. Alternatively you could have them printed on canvas to look like genuine works of art. Landscape photos printed on canvas can look like paintings on canvas. The great texture of canvas, when a photo is printed onto it, give the picture a special appeal that only a canvas can create.

If you want a new way to display your favourite photographs, rather than printing them onto paper why not have them printed on canvas? You can create original artwork based on your own photos to display in your home.

Paintings on canvas can be very expensive, but by printing photos to canvas you can create great artwork for a fraction of the price, based on your own pictures.

It used to be that to have your image turned into a pop art work of art you had to be an icon of pop culture yourself, such as Elvis Presley, or John McEnroe. These are sort of celebrities that featured in the works of Andy Warhol, as he turned their images into artwork that is worth millions of pounds today.

But you don’t need to be John McEnroe to have your image turned into pop art, these days anyone can become an icon of the twenty-first century. By having your photo printed on canvas you can have your image altered to look like a pop art masterpiece, without spending the millions required to own an original Andy Warhol.

Pop art canvas prints look like brilliant works of art, reducing the subject to the minimal lines and strokes, and coloured with bright vibrant colours.

Once the image has been altered in gets printed on canvas, looking like an original piece of artwork. This art is then unique, and custom to you, just like one of the icons painted by Andy Warhol himself.

Everyone would like to own their artwork. An original canvas painting adds a touch of class to any home as it’s unique, a one of a kind. However you don’t need to spend a lot of money on an original canvas painting, nor do you need the necessary artistic flair to paint your own artwork (as we’re not all blessed with artistic ability). Instead you could create an original piece of canvas art straight from a photograph by having any photo printed on canvas.

Canvas printing can be used to create original artwork from photos, to look just like an original canvas painting. You can even have beautiful landscapes displayed on your wall, as photos printed on canvas instead of paintings. You can take any picture, such as a landscape of a hillside, a woodland or a seaside scene. This will give you a beautiful canvas picture which looks just like a painting, only it’s a canvas print of a photograph.

You don’t need to buy an expensive painting to have a beautiful scene in your home, with a photo printed on canvas you can have that without the expense.

Your wedding day tends to be the biggest day in your life, the day when everything is about you and your other half. At no other point does everything come together in a day where it’s all supposed to be perfect, exactly as you want in to be; the food, the location, the guests, the clothes and of course the wedding dress.

Therefore when get married you’ll want to make sure you have enough mementos of the day. These can be professional photographs from a wedding photographer, amateur photographs from your family and friends, and a video of the special day.

The way you present the photographs is also very important. You could have your wedding photos bound in a beautiful album or printed and displayed on the wall for everyone to see.

One great and inventive way to display your wedding pictures though is to have them printed on canvas and hung on your wall. Canvas prints have a distinct texture and look to them that isn’t present on normal photo paper printing, so printing your photos to canvas will make them look like works of art. These art works can be customised to your big day.

What better way to remember your big day than with a big canvas print of your wedding?

Many people have a habit of taking picture after picture with the intention of printing them, framing them, building up an album etc, but often do nothing more than copy them to their computer and let them sit in a folder for days, months and years on end. However if you look at the possibly of a canvas print you may be inclined to opt for canvas printing. Even simple photographs have potential

For example you could have a photo of your garden printed onto canvas and displayed on your wall, that would really add to the look of your home. It doesn’t need to be a professional photo, even a simple snap will look like a professional work of art when it’s printed on canvas, so you can take the picture yourself with your digital camera.

A simple photo of your garden could look like a stunning landscape when printed onto canvas and hung on your wall.

So rather than leave your old photos saved onto your computer and rarely seen, have a look through your files and see if you think any of them would look good blown up and printed onto canvas.