Canvas photo and painting printing is such a nice innovation that can satisfy not only every customer but professional photographers and artists as well. This kind of printing gives many opportunities to create something different. Striving of gaining general acceptance any art follower can rely upon canvas print technology with full trust and confidence. It is a new way to present an image.
Canvas prints can be prints made from digital, still, turn slides or negatives. What are the reasons of doing that? Why should we prefer canvas to usual photos if our grandparents and parent are so accustomed to habitual photography? Our generation chooses it for the simple reason that the quality of a canvas photo print can be better than the original sample. It became possible due to the editing that is done before the final product is produced. Canvas print technique makes it possible to improve your photo adding brightness, colours and sharpness. Another reason why people are going for these pictures is that prints can be made from different pictures to give good quality products. Any of famous and well known paintings printed on canvas can decorate your home walls giving your place some sort of art significance. This canvas painting print gallery can become a whole cultural heritage of your home.
Three major steps to consider
Canvas prints can be done also on custom canvas, which is called simply a customized canvas. This customizing will help you to meet your specific needs. You can buy a canvas print offered by the manufacturer (that has already been made) or you can make your own specifications for the canvas and give your own digital image to be put on canvas. The biggest advantages of custom canvas are the fact that you will be more satisfied with the product because it has a more personal feel and the fact that the canvas can be made in a way that reflects your monetary abilities.
Cropping
First you can determine the size of your future photo on canvas. Canvas print specialists can crop your photo by various size and methods, and send you back to choose the best one. Unwanted things, according to your requirements, can be removed as well by cropping, or some particular area can be added to your photo if it is needed.
Retouching
With the help of this method the date and time stamp are removed from the digital photo. It is one of the most common tasks to be made here. Usually people choose the best photos to put on canvas but there is still a wish to perfect the picture, for example to retouch some wrinkles, freckles or moles making them more unnoticeable and est., especially women attach great importance to perfection of the appearance. They are usually more hard-to-please customers than men.
Colour balancing
Using colour balancing method makes it possible to brighten or darken the image, change the contrast, make it more striking or on the contrary. By removing the original colour of the photo you can make it monochrome. There are a lot of possibilities to make the picture look innovatively stunning. One can say this can be achieved using only photography, well he will be right in his own way, but a usual photo will never look the same as a good quality canvas photo print. A photo printed on canvas will certainly look much better, more effective.
By: Travis Olague
Posts Tagged ‘Digital Image’
The Way to Customise Your Photo on Canvas
February 12th, 2010How to Photograph Artwork With a Digital Camera For Use on the Web
February 7th, 2010
Getting a good digital image of artwork is very important if you want people to get the full impact of your artwork. You need to have good quality digital images of your artwork for Online Galleries, PR materials, exhibitions and galleries. Your digital images are your artwork online, so they need to look as close to the original artwork as possible. You want to make a good first impression, don’t you? If you have a great piece of artwork and it looks dull, dark and gray on the computer screen, it will automatically disengage the viewer and viewers will not want to look at it, it will not interest viewers.
Equipment -
1. Camera – I use an Olympus 4.0 Megapixel digital camera which is a decent camera, but any good quality digital camera will work. Read your camera instruction guide to find all the options for taking good quality pictures. Always take high resolution .tiff pictures because you can always decrease the image quality and file size of a digital picture, but you can’t start from a low resolution image and make it high resolution.
2. Lighting – You do not have to have an expensive photo lighting system or a really expensive camera, what I use is those clamp on metal reflectors that you can buy from the hardware store and I use 500 watt photo light bulbs from the camera store in the clamp on metal reflectors. I use four of these at one time.
3. Tripod – A tripod is also very helpful, but you can do without it if you have to. Use a sturdy tripod with tilt and rotation. If you don’t have a tripod, make sure your shutter speed is at least 1/60 and hold the camera steady and squeeze the trigger gently.
4. Photo Editing Software – The final component is the computer software to adjust the images on the computer, I use Adobe Photoshop software which is awesome. There are many other Photo Editing software programs available, and basically you just need to be able to crop the image and adjust the colors and the lightness and darkness of your digital images.
Procedures -
1. Shoot indoors with at least two 500-watt photo flood lamps (3200K) mounted in reflectors. If your artwork is 22″ x 30″ or larger you should probably use four lights.
2. Put the artwork on a piece of black matte board for a background. Fasten art to the black board with double-stick tape, tacks or use a black mat. Place on the wall or on an easel or on the floor. The art must be parallel to the camera lens, the center of the lens pointing at the center of the art. Use a bubble level to be sure camera and art are level. Tape a gray/color scale next to the art so that you will have a reference for adjusting the color of your digital image.
3. Lamps should be 4-5 feet away from the art, position the lights at a 30 degree angle to the surface of the artwork and point each of the four lights to a separate corner of the artwork so that the light will evenly illuminate the entire surface of the artwork. Check to be sure there are no hot spots, shadows or shine reflecting off the art. The room should be completely dark when you shoot. Cover the windows and turn out the lights. For textured work like collage try raking the light, using just one light from the side and adjusting the exposure accordingly.
4. Fill the viewfinder or LCD (digital) with the IMAGE ONLY, centered and absolutely square to the sides, top and bottom. Move the camera or zoom lens, not the art. Focus carefully in the center of the art.
5. The best combination is a slow speed setting (1/8, 1/15, 1/30 sec.) with a high f/stop (f11 or f16) for color saturation and sharp image. If you don’t have a tripod, you will need to use at least 1/60 shutter speed. The best setting for balancing the light is “tungsten” (which is the type of light bulb you will be using). Tungsten is under “white balance” in the camera settings. Change your white balance setting to tungsten, if your camera has that option.
6. Always take the highest resolution .tiff image possible (for print applications), you can always save that as a .jpg or .gif or .png for use on the web. For the web, a .gif file at 72 pixels per inch resolution is good for most web applications because it has a small file size and loads quickly.
7. Edit your digital image, in your photo editing software, so that it matches the look and feel of your artwork.
8. Organize you digital artwork files on your computer in folders so that you can easily browse to them for upload to online galleries.
Miscellaneous -
Group your artwork by size and shoot the same sizes in sequence, so you don’t have to adjust the camera or easel so much. If your pieces are a standard size, place tape on the floor to mark the position of the camera, lights and easel or art stand and also the placement of the art. It will save you time when you shoot again.
By: George McKim
Online Image Resizer Vs Photo Enlargement Software
December 14th, 2009
While plenty of online image resizing tools remain available, the option still exists to resize an image offline in a tool such as Photoshop, and when finished send the resulting image online. Photoshop is one of best commonly used graphic design tools for a variety of advanced purposes, but Photoshop can also be utilized as a simple picture resizer.
There are a growing number of online image resizer web applications available on the net that will provide an online image resize instantaneously. Photoshop, as an offline graphic design tool, supports many applications such as media creation, web development, etc., but its use as a offline picture resizer is widely recognized. One advantage of Photoshop over an online image resizer is that Photoshop includes the capability to arrange an enormous amount of pixels precisely to get the precisely excellent photo quality desired. Newcomers to Photoshop who have not used earlier versions will need to learn the basics of the program to utilize it as an image resizer. Photoshop is an excellent piece of software to learn with an easy user-friendly menu that allows anyone to resize pictures easily.
Another offline tool for resizing purposes is PhotoImpact 10. This tool requires some prior learning or technical knowledge before its use for resizing and cropping pictures becomes readily apparent. There are many additional features incorporated in PhotoImpact, including the ability to remove patches from faces in an image, editing images from the internet, and beautifying images in a wide variety of other manners. The main disadvantage of PhotoImpact is its lack of support for pdf files.
An additional, final image-resizing tool is Digital Image Suite 9. This software is available from Microsoft and does not require any major learning curve. It is designed for basic photo sharing and using Digital Image Suite you can also crop pictures.
By using an online image resizer, the desired online resized image is available quickly. Online image resizing tools are important to learn especially if you need to resize images online very often. Anyone who plans to become a photographer will need to learn the above software packages for photo editing purposes, however, an online image resize websitestill contains many advantages over these tools.
The major advantage of an online picture resizing website is that it is free and can be used to resize pictures online within no time. The simple process involves uploading the desired image to the website and selecting some basic functions such as width, height, and pixel dimensions. After these selections, the resized photo instantly appears on your screen.
We have demonstrated the advantages of an online picture resizing websiteover resizing tools, however a major disadvantage remains, in that free online image resize websites do not have photo editing capabilities. Using a website to resize images online provides the best quality photo, however using resizing software still provides the best quality resized photo.
As both free online picture resizing websitesand image resizing tools have separate advantages and disadvantages over one another, to produce the most desired result would need a combination of both tools by using one of the above software packages to edit your photo first, and using the best quality photo from that program with online image resize for getting the desired picture resized.
By: Alex Don
