Archive for November, 2011
We’d like to thank our friends at Instagram, who picked our new Instagram canvas prints as the top item on their Black Friday Holiday Gift Guide:
Has a friend ever asked for the original version of a beautiful Instagram photo you took so they could use it as the background on their phone? Have your parents been ranting and raving to all of their friends about how wonderful your Instagram images are to anyone who will listen? If so, CanvasPop’s Instagram printing addition is the perfect holiday gift!
We’re stoked with how these canvases have taken off! Watch for them in more upcoming gift guides now that the “season of giving” has officially launched.
We’ve launched our new Instagram integration and want to print your Instagram photos on canvas! Whether you’re a newbie or addict, we’re featuring a series of tips, tricks and techniques to help you harness the power of your iPhone’s camera, unleash your creativity, and capture the world around you.
But first, let’s start with some basics!
Make sure your iPhone’s camera lens is clean.
It sounds like a no-brainer, but a fingerprint and grime-free lens isn’t always top-of-mind. Make an effort to give the lens a little cleaning with a soft cloth (or sleeve!) at least once a day.
Have fun with filters.
Instagram comes with 15+ pre-programmed filters to give your photos some pizazz right off the hop. Spot a man on the street wearing a 70’s tracksuit? Filter him into his own era with the “1977” filter. Snap a photo of your little girl with an ear-to-ear grin? Preserve her innocence in black and white with the “Inkwell” filter.
Get perspective.
Shooting from different perspectives can turn an ordinary photo into something extraordinary, just by playing with composition through angles, space, depth, and distance.
These were taken with Instagram, but are completely different images thanks to a little experimentation (and filter fun!).
Follow some new friends and #tag your photos.
Browse Instagram for photos and follow new people to see the world in a different light, be inspired, and share your photos. And don’t forget that Instagram supports hashtags—like #CanvasPop—to catagoerize your photos and help others discover them. Tag your photos with #CanvasPop for a chance to win an Instagram Photo of the Day Award and a free Instagram photo on canvas!
Have you heard the news? We just launched our new CanvasPop Instagram integration—we can now print your Instagram photos as large 12×12” or 20×20” canvases!
In celebration of our new product, we’re giving away an Instagram Photo Wall! Enter our sweepstakes for your chance to win the Grand Prize of nine Instagram canvases, or one of five secondary Instagram canvas prizes.
Enter today—contest closes December 2!
(Don’t have Instagram? Join the fun and download it for your iPhone to start taking amazing photographs to print on canvas or share online through Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.)
Enter here: https://www.facebook.com/canvaspop?sk=app_121121694568521
Sweepstakes Rules
By entering the contest you are eligible to win the Grand Prize: One Instagram Photo Wall, consisting of nine (9) 12×12″ gallery-stretched Instagram canvases (value $269), or one of five secondary prizes of a 12×12” Instagram canvas (value $29.95 each).
All prizes do not include shippping and may not be combined with any other offer or promotion.
Contest closes December 2, 2011.
Love Instagram? So do we! And since we now print Instagram photos on canvas, we want to share the love and give away some canvases to our fellow Instagrammers.
How to Enter the Contest:
Tag your Instagram images with #CanvasPop in Instagram and type: “I want this photo printed on canvas with #CanvasPop” to be automatically entered to win!
If you’re trying to tag an old photo, insert “I want this photo printed on canvas with #CanvasPop” into the photo’s comment section.
Contest Rules/Conditions:
Maximum of 5 entries per person.
US and Canada residents only.
Your photo will also appear on our new Instagram site for thousands to see. We’ll be featuring some of the winners on the blog and other places, too.
Winner must pay shipping ($14).
We’ll choose 1 photo a week to print on canvas. Cool, eh?
Don’t have Instagram? Join the fun and download it for your iPhone to start taking amazing photographs to print on canvas or share online through Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.)
Keep up to date on what’s happening at CanvasPop through our Instagram account or follow us on Followgram! Happy tagging and good luck!
Love,
#CanvasPop
It’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship. CanvasPop has joined forces with the hugely popular iPhone app, Instagram, to make the world’s most stunning art. By integrating the Instagram API on our website, we have created a simple and fun way for Instagram users to print iPhone photos in large format.
Early on, we recognized similarities between our customers and Instagram users. Both are early adopters who love taking pictures and are influential within their communities. When our forward-thinking customers and even our staff, who are addicted to the photo app, started to print Instagram photos on canvas, we knew it was something we needed to jump on!
The Instagram community is made up of over 10 million users who have uploaded over 150 million images and counting. That’s 1.3 million uploads each day! We even previewed these to some of the Instagram crew on a recent trip to San Franciso for “1197″, the 1st mobile phone photography conference. They were blown away by the quality.
How do we do it, you ask? We’ve created a proprietary technique that allows lower resolution Instagram photos to be enlarged and look beautiful. Plus, canvas is a medium that is naturally forgiving to low-res images because it’s textured and porous, as opposed to a high-gloss paper. Keep in mind Instagram pics are naturally lo-fi with heavy color saturation, their own filters and blurring. Our final product really shows off the Instagram aesthetic to its fullest potential!
Here’s the skinny: We have specifically selected two sizes (12” x 12”, 20″ x 20”), two border color options (black or white) and one border depth (1.5”) to ensure the process is quick and easy. Since the process is streamlined, we’ve hooked you up with special pricing specifically for Instagram users. They look fantastic in multi-canvas layouts and a 12” x 12” is just $29.95, a 20” x 20” is $59.95. It’s affordable and easy to make an entire wall of art with each piece being a unique reflection of it’s owner.
Visit www.canvaspop.com/instagram to get started and join us on the mission of making beautiful personalized art from your iPhone photos.
Want see how you would look after some plastic surgery minus the pain and the dent in your savings account? CanvasPop is excited to introduce Digital Facelift™ as a result of overwhelming customer demand for the service when printing photos on canvas. Using a combination of software, proprietary techniques and human craftsmanship, our designers can now finesse your image to make a dramatic difference, but not so much that it doesn’t look like you.
This is just one of the additions to our brand new three-tier line-up of image enhancement services. In addition to CanvasPop’s free Picture Perfect™ service that provides complimentary color correction, red-eye reduction and other minor image adjustments, customers can now order a number of photo enhancement services that range from minor alterations to complete photo reconstruction, starting at $9.95.
“Just a Touch” ($9.95) is for when your image needs a little extra shine.
Removing facial blemishes, adding text, teeth whitening and removal of small objects and imperfections.
With “Make it Pop” ($29.95), we will transform your image into a materpiece!
Add or remove people (your ex or photobombers), Digital Facelift™ and large object removal.
“Extreme Enhancement” ($49.95) is for those photos that need complete restoration.
Complete background replacement, repair of old faded/torn photos, etc. Let your photo editing dreams come to life!
Check out our gallery below and click here to get started with enhancing your images. Join us on the mission of making beautiful art!
