Arts and Photography

Turning a favorite photograph into a full size, professionally produced work of art was once more or less impossible. Whilst photographs could be enlarged somewhat, the process was both expensive and of only limited worth; the larger the picture got, the poorer the quality became and, even if it was tolerable, the image could then only be stuck into a frame. That was back before the wide spread adoption of digital technology as the main means of taking photographs, and it's this digital revolution which has completely changed the situation.

Selecting canvas prints to hang on the wall of your home or give as gifts is a more complicated process than it might at first appear to be. As well as being aesthetically pleasing and decorative, the art which you choose to purchase and put in your home is saying something about the way you wish to be perceived and the lifestyle you want to project to the rest of the world. That's why finding just the right image is so important, and why the search for it can often prove to be so long and frustrating. There is an answer, however, brought about by advances in technology, and it's an answer which is affordable, effective and simple. It involves creating your own canvas photo prints without having to be any kind of an expert or, indeed, without having even the smallest amount of experience in the field.

The first step in the process involves choosing the image which you wish to immortalize in this manner. Whether it's a gift or for your own enjoyment will have some bearing upon this decision, but whatever image you do choose, whether it's a family portrait or an artistic abstract photograph, the process will be exactly the same. All that you need to do is upload the image in question to the website you're using. Once you've done this, you'll be taken step by step through the procedure, using software which has been put together with the sole aim of being effective and at the same time easy to use. One by one, you'll make decisions about the print - the size, the shape and even additions such as sepia or monochrome printing will all be open to modification. Once you've got it looking exactly how you wish it to look, your image will be printed onto artist quality canvas which is both wipe clean and treated so as not to be effected by exposure to sunlight. Once it's been stretched over a solid wooden frame, this is a canvas which will look dazzling from the moment you take delivery and will continue to do so for many more years.

If you've got more than one photograph which you want to be able to display and admire on a regular basis, then gather twelve or more together and use them as the basis for a photo calendar. Putting your own photo calendars together is just as simple as creating a canvas print, and the finished item will be the same mixture of the highly professional and the truly personal.

Creating both canvas print and photo calendars would, until recently, have seemed well beyond the reach of almost everyone. Now, however, technology has advanced to the point wherein anyone with the images and the imagination can create something truly original.

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