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If you’re thinking of having a photo printed onto canvas you might be wondering what sorts of pictures work best printed on canvas. In truth, you can have a wide variety of photos printed to canvas, it’s just a matter of what picture you want and what you’d like it for, whether it’s for yourself to display on your wall, or to give as a gift to a friend.

So what sorts of pictures can you print on canvas? The following are a few ideas for photos that can be printed on canvas.

Holiday photos
Everyone has photos from their holidays, whether they were trekking holidays, camping holidays or beach holidays. Photos from your holiday make great canvas prints because they remind you of a happy time, therefore having them printed on canvas and displayed on your walls will make you feel very happy.

Photos of the family
Having pictures of your family displayed on the wall allows you to personalise your living space and to show your family that you care enough about them to have canvas prints displayed with their faces on them.

Your own art
You could of course have canvas prints printed on canvas of pictures that you’ve taken for artistic reasons. Maybe you’re an experimental photographer and have an eye for a great picture? Print it on canvas and make some art out of it!

What is art? That’s one of the questions that has divided critics, students and art lovers for generations. Traditional art is lifelike pictures painted on canvas by masters of their art. Modern art can be anything that subverts the art genre, challenges it and questions what art is about.

The real question though is whether photography printed on canvas is art. Photography, whether performed by a master such as David Bailey or by your children at a party can be considered art because it produces a window on the world. A photo shows a snapshot in time, whether that’s a happy moment, a beautiful landscape or an unexpected occurrence. In every way photography can be considered art, so therefore as art it should be printed on canvas and displayed as art.

The mixture of photography and canvas represents the coming together of two different art forms to create a new art form, the canvas print, or photos to canvas. When photos are printed on canvas they become more than just photos, and when a canvas has photos printed on them it becomes more than just a canvas.

Canvas photography is a new form of art, one that can be enjoyed by all and created by anyone with a camera.

Printing and framing photos has been the traditional way of displaying photos for many years. Whether they’re photos of your holiday, photos of your family and children or photos from your own childhood, framing them and hanging them on the wall was typically the only way of displaying them in the home.

However, framing pictures and hanging them on the wall isn’t the best way of displaying your treasured memories. In fact a much better way is to have your photos enlarged and printed on canvas, turning them into focal points on your wall.

When you frame pictures they tend to be quite small, and are things you glance at every now and then when you walk past, quickly becoming part of the scenery and fading into the background. By having your photos printed on canvas you’re creating a centrepiece of your pictures and displaying something that commands the attention of the room.

You no longer need to look around for a framed picture, or move closer to see what it looks like, as when it’s printed on canvas it will be visible from anywhere in the room and will attract your attention easily.

Many people dream of being able to create their own canvas art for their home. They wish they could pick out a canvas, choose their paints and paintbrushes and start crafting a masterpiece that shows the beautiful image they have in their mind, whether that’s of a family member, a landscape or something more imaginative.

However the sad truth is that most of us are unable to create our own canvas paintings because painting is very difficult, and unless you have the skill and patience necessary it can also be very frustrating. The end result is usually not something you’d want to have displayed in your home anyway.

You don’t need to despair though as a lack of painting doesn’t mean that you can’t create your own beautiful canvases to display in your home. You can actually create beautiful canvas pictures simply by using your own photographs and having them printed on canvas.

Most people can operate a camera, with varying degrees of success. You just point and click. With canvas printing you turn any photos you’ve taken into works of art and have them displayed in your home, like a proud artist.

It is believed among many that canvas as a medium is only for the rich, people who own large stately homes or modern masterpieces and indulge in frequent cocktail parties to show off their latest artistic acquisitions. However this isn’t the case at all. Canvas is a very affordable medium and graces the walls of the homes of people of every class structure. Whether you’re a primary school teacher, a stockbroker or a king, you can benefit from having canvas hanging on your wall.

The reason canvas art is so affordable is by the means of canvas printing. Gone are the days when if you wanted to own a canvas you had to pay a large sum of money to an artist to craft you an original work. No, today you can pay a small sum of money and have a printing company produce an original canvas for you based on one of your own photographs. This means that you can have any of your pictures turned into glorious canvas art, by the medium of photos to canvas, and have them displayed in your home in the same manner as the rich and famous.

You don’t have to put up with drab framed photos on your wall. Have them printed on canvas and show your friends and family just how great your photographic skills are. The best part is that you don’t even need to be that good with a camera. When you have pictures printed on canvas the medium of the artistic canvas will lend such a unique texture to the picture that almost any photo would look great printed on canvas.

Children always make great subjects for photographs, and are often willing to pose for pictures. Pictures of your kids therefore look great in your home and give your home a personal touch. You don’t just have to have photos of your own children framed in the usual way and displayed on your wall though, you can be a little more imaginative and have them printed on canvas.

Photos on canvas look much better than photos printed and framed. Canvas prints look like actual art and give your home a unique touch of class that only canvas can. You don’t need to be a millionaire to have original canvas work displayed on your wall, when you have your own photos printed on canvas you can have canvas art at an affordable price.

Better yet, by having your own pictures printed on canvas you’re having unique art that is special to you, with your own memories. Using canvas printing you can have photos of your children printed onto canvas and turned into art for your home.

People have many different options when it comes to decorating the walls of their home with pictures. You can buy framed prints from shops that feature iconic imagery, such as the New York photos of the construction workers atop the Empire State Building when it was being built, or the picture of the female tennis player scratching her derrière. However if you buy one of these images for your home you’ll be buying the same pictures that are on display in thousands of homes throughout the world.

Instead you could try creating artwork out of your own pictures. Using photos that you’ve taken yourself you can have them printed on canvas and turned into works of art that would usually be seen in art galleries or expensive million pound homes. These pictures though can be displayed in your home, using your own pictures. With photos to canvas you can display your own personal photography on the wall as though it were your own art, showing how great your photography skills are.

Even if you’re not an expert photographer, it doesn’t matter. You can have your photos printed on canvas and they’ll look great because of the nature of the canvas material.

If you’re not looking forward to the mad rush to by Christmas presents this year, you could make life much easier and buy your presents online. Rather than battle the crowds through the shops looking for materialistic things that your friends and family will probably never use and just store away for redistribution next year, why not buy something more personal from the comfort of your own home?

You could give your loved ones a customised present they’ll never forget, without the need for you to leave the house and engage in the mad shopping battles that take place on the streets. By using a canvas printing service you can take any of your own personal photos, whether they’re of you, your family or your friends, and have a unique piece of art printed on canvas. This means that you can have your own art created easily and cheaply, which offers a much more personal touch than anything you could buy in the shops.

It’s easier, cheaper and makes for a more thoughtful Christmas present than the usual items that people give at Christmas.

Most of us would list family photographs among our most treasured and irreplaceable possessions, whether they be traditional prints or digital images. We generally tend to tuck these away safely in an album or folder, to be viewed from time to time. Similarly, most of us have admired the look and feel of real artist canvasses, traditionally framed and hung for all to admire in homes and art galleries.

Through the wonder of modern technology, it is now possible to combine both art forms, capturing the warmth of the photographic image and the texture and visual impact of canvas.

To ensure the highest quality, images submitted are carefully examined and any blemishes or “red eye” are removed prior to the transformation. Images are also cropped to the required size and colours are balanced to ensure maximum print quality. Once prepared, the image is printed onto canvas then stretched using traditional techniques and craftsmanship, allowing the image to be removed, remounted or framed without damaging the canvas.

In addition to choice of size, the purchaser is offered various finishes, designed to enhance the visual impact of the image at no extra cost. How about the stylishness of a black and white finish, the “older photo” appearance of a sepia finish or one of several colour tint finishes that give a different feel entirely to the image? Also on offer is a pop art design in various styles, for those who like their art ultra modern.

So, whether your favourite photos are of holidays, weddings, pets, cars or scenery, this innovative process provides an interesting and lasting alternative to albums and folders by transforming your precious memories into framed works of art.

An introduction into their wide format printer range for Epsom, is their industry standard, Stylus Pro 9880. The printer is capable of reproducing images, at a scale of up to A 44, or B0+. It comes equipped with Epsom’s Micro Piezo print head, which offers market leading resolution, at 2880×1440dpi.

The utilisation of Epsom’s pioneering VSDT, or variable size droplet technology, allow for a machine that operates with phenomenal levels of both quality, and productivity. This makes it ideal for commercial use.

These key features are coupled with Epsom’s UltraChrome K3 ink system. This is an ink set that offers superior standards, in regards to colour print quality. If the printer is printing in black and white, then the three shades of black that the ink system uses, means that the same outstanding results can be achieved, as with colour.

Lightfastness refers to the amount of time that a photo print can be subjected to light, before noticeable fading occurs. Colour images that are produced using the UltraChrome K3 ink system have a Lightfastness rating of up to 108 years. The Lightfastness rating for black and white images is in excess of 200 years.

All in all, the results that are achieved using the combination of the Epsom Stylus Pro 9880, and the UltraChrome K3 ink system, are results that could make the set up, a paragon of the industry.