Customer Name: Mike McMullen
Size: 24×36″ stretched canvas
Staff Pick By: Drew
Photo Location: Tofino, British Columbia
Artist Comment: ”I walked the beach for a few hours to wait for sunset, hoping for everything to come together—light, mist from the ocean and of course a surfer after a few sets. The wind picked up for about 20 minutes and then BOOM!!!! It cleared enough with one of the last surfers of the day walking in. I grabbed a few shots hoping for the best and it happened, “THE MONEY SHOT”! Great way to spend the last day in Tofino!”
Congrats to Mike, who won a free canvas for this submission. Want to win? Enter your photo in the Canvas Print of the Day contest after you place your order, and your photo could be featured here!
We can’t wait to see what you create.
Love,
CanvasPop
AppLove is a CanvasPop blog series on the latest and greatest mobile photography apps, written by #twosisters Ali Jardine and Mis Vincent. In this edition, Ali explores Camera+ — a staple app in her iPhoneography arsenal.
Camera+ is one of the first apps that I bought for my iPhone. Since then, many apps have come and gone, but Camera+ has held a coveted spot in my main photo editing app folder and is still used on a regular basis. The camera works well, it has a lightbox to store photos that I’m working on, and it is extremely simple to use.
When you open the camera, the home page consists of flash button where you can choose flash off, auto, on, and flashlight. The right top corner button gives the option to turn the camera toward yourself. The slider bar on the right is the zoom, and the camera screen has a grid making it easy to line up the subject you’re shooting.
The bottom bar holds your lightbox, the button to take your photo, settings, and menu. The Lightbox stores all of your photos that have either taken with Camera+ or have imported in from your library. In addition to the camera button, Camera+ also allows you to take a photo using Iphone’s volume button, which I find is easier to do. Settings include normal mode, stabilizer, timer, and burst, and menu has quality resolution settings among other things like grid and zoom, which you can turn off when when they aren’t needed.
Lightbox is very simple to use. There is a save all button in the top left corner, and the plus sign in the Left top corner takes you to your camera roll to import photos. The camera button in the bottom left takes you back to the camera, and the stacks button lets you save or share multiple photos. The share button allows sharing through email, message, web link, or social media like Facebook and Twitter. The undo button will bring back a photo if it was accidentally erased, and the menu button takes you back to menu.
Just click on a photo in Lightbox to edit. There are many lighting options in scenes. For this photo, I used Shade. You can rotate your photo using the Adjust button, crop using the Crop button, add effects using the FX Effects button, and add a border or vignette using the Borders button. I cropped my photo into a square.
The Effects include Color, Retro, Special, and Analog which is an add on that must be purchased separately.
I used Magic Hour for my photo and toned the intensity down a bit.
I used a thin white border. At this time, you can also add a caption or a date to your photo.
When you are done, click on the done button and save your photo from Lightbox to your camera roll or share directly from Lightbox.
Here is my final photo. Camera+ is a great app for beginners, because it is very self explanatory and simple to use. Have fun editing and please stop by @alijardine to say hi on Instagram!
Thanks for this great tutorial, Ali! We can’t wait to see everyone’s creations using this app. Share a link to one of your Camera+ photos in the comments below and you could win your photo on canvas.
Ali Jardine is an iPhoneographer who is rather nomadic but for now resides on the ruggedly wild Sonoma coast of California with her husband, Jason and their two children, Gabriel and Pippin. Right now she is obsessed with alternate universes, flight in all its forms, and volkswagen buses. Nothing makes her happier than traveling with her family and taking photos. Check out Ali’s blog.
John Ruskin, one of the leading art critics of the Victorian era put it best: When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Wacom for this fun and unique contest: Submit a photo you love and get your friends to vote on it.
We’ll select finalists from the top-voted entries, and if you’re one of the winners, we’ll work with Wacom to transform your photo into an even more amazing piece of art on canvas using our specialized design services and filters.
Plus, you’ll be in the running for some spectacular prizes and we’ll even give you a behind-the-scenes peek at how we transform some of your photos into something Rembrandt would be proud to call his own.
HOW IT WORKS
Submit your photo before May 27! Get your friends, family, tweeps and fans to vote on it before June 3. The more you share your photo, the more likely you are to ramp up votes. Don’t be shy! (You and your friends can each submit one vote per day during the submission period of May 28-June 3.)
Enter today!
The top 200 finalists will move on to the judging round, where Wacom and CanvasPop will choose the Grand Prize, First Prize, and Runners Up. Winners will be announced on June 11.
PRIZES
| 1 Grand Prize Winner | 10 Second Place Winners | 10 Third Place Winners |
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| A Wacom Cintiq 12WX and your image transformed into a 24×36″ photo on canvas (value $1,175!) | A Bamboo Capture Tablet + your image transformed into a 16×20″ CanvasPop creation (value $250!) | A Bamboo Stylus and $30 CanvasPop gift voucher to create your own masterpiece (value $60!) |
The first 1,000 entrants will also snag a $30 CanvasPop gift voucher!
RULES + CRITERIA
• Entrants must reside in the continental USA or Canada.
• Entrant must have taken the photo themselves.
• One entry per person.
• Winners agree topotentially have their photos transformed by CanvasPop and Wacom.
• Submissions must be received by 11:59pm PT on May 27, 2012.
• Each voter can submit a new vote every day between May 28 and June 3.
Want to transform your photo onto canvas now? Use code TRANSFORM15 to save 15% off through May 27.
This week’s entries to our #MakeGreat contest with Threadless rocked some awesome materials—clay, rocks, felt, even floppy disks. They were über creative and we were forced to pull our hair out yet again to decide on a winner:
Shoes by Sydney Melnick (@syd_the_kid__)
Want to score a photo of your art on canvas? #MakeGreat with us—we’re awarding a new winner every week with an Instagram photo on canvas.
The Challenge: To enter, snap an Instagram photo of something you drew, wrote, or built and tag it with #makegreat on Instagram.
Prizes: Weekly winners score a free 12×12″ Instagram photo on canvas!
Rules: Winners must reside in the continental USA or Canada.
Don’t have the photo-sharing-machine called Instagram? Download it for iOS or Android and get makin’!
Our friend, photographer Younes Bounhar, is a member of the CanvasPop Pro Community. As an avid traveller, Younes shares his tips on how to capture the essence of your surroundings no matter where you are in the world.
Time and resources being often limiting factors, there is a tendency when planning trips to want to visit as many places as humanly (or sometimes not humanly) possible. Given that many will be visiting a place for the first and only time, it is easy to find yourself with an itinerary that is more packed than Ali Baba’s cavern, with hardly a minute to spare.
For sure, many destinations offer a wealth of “can’t miss” icons that you just want to cross off your bucket-list. Only with this approach you may end up missing the very essence of travel. You get so caught up in this “race” to collect souvenirs and memories that you forget to have memories in the first place.
For me the only way to figure out what to shoot and by that I mean shoot something meaningful, is to truly go out there and experience the place. Take the time to live it and breathe it. You’ve got to get a feel for its rhythm, its pace, its people and their habits. Let yourself get immersed in the atmosphere and take it all in.
As odd as it may sound, try to visit as if you lived there as opposed to as a tourist. That means getting off the beaten path and off the tourist track. Eat where the locals do, when they do, hang out where they do. It may not be by the Louvre or the Eiffel tower, but it might just get you the unique shot you are looking for.
One of the approaches I take is to simply let myself wander around aimlessly. Follow a street and see where it takes me without regards to the final destination. You can hop on the first bus that comes by or get off at the first metro station and just go from there.
Another approach is to simply sit down at a neighbourhood café and watch life go by. For one, you will find it very relaxing and soothing, but most importantly, it will give you a glimpse of life as you haven’t seen it before, and may be get that all important connection with a local that will get you that once in a lifetime shot!
Younes Bounhar eats, sleeps and breathes photography. His photos have been featured in several magazines in Canada and abroad including Canadian Geographic, PhotoLife, PhotoSolutions and Photography Monthly. Follow him on Twitter.
Customer Name: Kate Williams from Adore Imagery
Size: 16×20″ stretched canvas
Staff Pick By: Liz
Artist Comment: ”This photo was taken after dinner at Jay and Christine’s reception. We snuck outside and took a few minutes where they could be together and take a breath after a busy day. I feel it really captures how happy they were to be married and what a great time they had that day.”
Congrats to Kate, who won a free canvas for this submission. Want to win? Enter your photo in the Canvas Print of the Day contest after you place your order, and your photo could be featured here!
We can’t wait to see what you create.
Love,
CanvasPop
Join our Lead Designer for this quick Color Isolate tutorial and learn how to turn your photos into works of art using Photoshop. (Of course, if Photoshop isn’t your thing, you can work with one of our personal designers to create something special with our filters and effects.)
We’ve been using Wacom products since the beginning to transform your photos on canvas and really make them POP! We used our Wacom Cintiq in this tutorial to fine-tune the details around the little girl and tulips.
Get creative and let us know if you have any questions about the tutorial.
And stay tuned for an amazing contest announcement with Wacom next week!
Did you catch CanvasPop canvas prints on CNN today? We were featured in the Mother’s Day gift segment at 3 PM EST on May 8!
Still looking for the perfect gift for Mom? There’s still time to get a CanvasPop gift card before Sunday!
AppLove is a CanvasPop blog series on the latest and greatest mobile photography apps, written by #twosisters Melissa Vincent and Ali Jardine. In this edition, Melissa explores one of her favorite editing apps, Juxtaposer.
Juxtaposer is the one iPhone app that I simply cannot live without. It makes the impossible possible. On Instagram when I use this app on one of my photos, I usually get several “Great Photoshop!” comments. I don’t even own Photoshop! In this review, I’ll teach you how to use Juxtaposer and you can make magic happen, too.
Here is the app’s home screen.
You can see that I have several sessions saved. This is just one of the many amazing features offered. You can start on a project and come back to it later. For this tutorial, I’m going to select the “Start new session” button.
This is what you will see.
You will want to either load an existing photo or take a new one to be your base image. I chose this image from my library that I took while flying.
The next screen to show up after my photo loads looks like this. There are three options. You can either take a photo, load an image, or load a stamp. A stamp is a picture you have already ‘cut out’ from an image and saved into your stamp gallery.
Here is a portion of my stamp collection. Remember that the photo you load on top will be the photo you will be allowed to manipulate. The bottom photo is set as a background, so you can’t erase anything on it.
I loaded an existing photo from my library. This is what my screen will look like now. At the bottom, you will notice a pan & zoom button. This moves your bottom image only. To zoom, use two fingers.
There’s also a button for moving the top image only, plus an erase and unerase for the top image only.
At the top, you have three rectangles in the middle. These let you pick which work style you like best. The first one lets you erase with none of the background showing while you work. The middle lets you still see the background while you erase (which is helpful for aligning elements).
The last box in red shows only the top image, with the erased area in red. The circular button to the right of these boxes lets you select between hard and soft edged brushes, opaque and transparent brushes, and the size of the brush.
At the top, you will see four white bars on the far left. This is the menu button, and clicking it will bring this up the next screen.
This is where you can save your stamps or session. You can also add a new top image, replace the top image, or replace the base image. One of the best features about Juxtaposer is that you can flip the top image (or stamp) and stamp the top image onto the photo as many times as you want.
For this session, my idea was to cut the boy with the binoculars out and place him in the sky on clouds to make a surreal photo. To do this, I clicked the “move top image” button and used two fingers to zoom in for easier access to erase around hard to reach spots.
I continued to erase the background from the boy and then placed the stamp where I wanted it in the clouds. I also always save the stamp, so I can use it for another photo if I’d like.
Below is the final image!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on one of my favorite editing apps, Juxtaposer. With practice, I think you’ll find it’s a favorite of yours, too! Check out this post’s header for more photos I edited using this app.
About Melissa Vincent: Trying to show the world a beautiful side to Mississippi. Lover of nature and magic and making surreal southern art with my iPhone. Stop by and say hi on Instagram or Twitter and check out her website.
There’s been over 1,000 entries to our #MakeGreat challenge with Threadless! The #MakeGreat Instagram feed is full of colourful, whimsical, plush, dark, realistic, surreal and inspiring creations. Check them out!
It was really tough to choose a winner this week, but we persevered and chose this submission:
Wide Open by John Schafluetzel (@mindsquint)
Want to score a photo of your art on canvas? #MakeGreat with us—we’re awarding a new winner every week with an Instagram photo on canvas.
The Challenge
To enter, snap an Instagram photo of something you drew, wrote, or built and tag it with #makegreat on Instagram.
Prizes
Weekly winners score a free 12×12″ Instagram photo on canvas!
Rules
Winners must reside in the continental USA or Canada.
Don’t have the photo-sharing-machine called Instagram? Download it for iOS or Android and get makin’!
