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On December 13th, CanvasPop had the pleasure of being featured on CTV Morning Live. Check out the segment here with host Jeff Hopper and our PR Manager Suzy Kendrick. We created special canvas prints for each of the hosts and surprised them on air with them. They were blown away! If you’re still looking for a last minute gift idea this holiday season, give the gift of personalized art with a CanvasPop gift card.
It has been an amazing couple of weeks since we started to print Instagram photos. Our fans and followers have been great with helping to spread the word. We’ve also grabbed the attention of some of the most influential media. Here’s a sampling of some of the love we’ve been getting:
“Over 10 million people have created artful iPhonography with Instagram, but they’ve never seen their masterpieces any bigger than a Postagram postcard. But now, thanks to a peculiar synergy between the mediums and a secret algorithm, CanvasPop has found a way to blow up Instagrams and print them as beautiful canvas paintings.”
- Josh, Constine, TechCrunch
“The company sent over a 12″ x 12″ sample developed with an Instagram shot I took at Kate Spade’s Spring 2012 presentation in October. I was impressed with the quality, particularly given the original image is 612 x 612 pixels at a resolution of 72 dpi.”
- Lauren Indvik, Mashable
“Mix the digital world with the real world… be sure to order a small gaggle to make your own hipster-filter gallery.”
- UNCRATE
“These prints are high quality, featuring a canvas wrap over a wood frame. Canvaspop even puts little clear silicone bumpers on the bottom back of the print to complete the professional touches.”
- Steven Sande, TUAW
“CanvasPop’s Instagram prints will transport your photos out of your iPhone and onto the walls of your home. It’s perfect for any iPhone photographer who wants to give their Instagram shots another life. If you love the photo-sharing, social networking app, you’ll adore the beautiful CanvasPop prints.”
- Alexandra Chang, MacWorld
“It’s an awesome way to brighten your living room with personal photography direct from your iPhone.”
- Nick Schonberger, Complex
“If you’re worried that the camera on your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 isn’t good enough for top-notch quality canvas prints, fret not. The folks over at CanvasPop are experts at upsizing images.”
- Kelly Montgomery, Digital Trends
Lauren Goode from All Things Digital absolutely loved her CanvasPop Instagram print from her trip to Hong Kong. Check out her report and rave review here on Wall Street Journal Live.
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.
Above is a sneak peek of a custom canvas print we created for stylist and trend reporter Arren Williams‘ appearance on CityLine on Citytv this coming Monday in Toronto.
Arren will be appearing in a segment on CityLine involving a room makeover and the image is of weathered barn board.
We’re excited to see how the canvas print looks when the room design is complete. If you were in the studio audience there might have been be a surprise for you as well 
Recently, CanvasPop was featured on Candice Olson’s new show, Candice Tells All.
The episode involved converting a historic loft, used both as a living space and an office, into an elegant, functional space.
To add some vibrant art to the room, Candice used CanvasPop to create a beautiful triptych canvas print of a photo of the outside of the historic brick building. The results were magnificent as you can see in the clip above.
We’re thrilled that one of the world’s most renowned designers trusts CanvasPop to bring the spaces she designs to life.
Candice Tells All can be seen on HGTV and W Network.
Thanks to our friends at PageDaily and editor-in-chief Nancy Rotenier for the great article on CanvasPop and the awesome recommendation on ABC News Now yesterday.
Nancy makes a great point. Why go with boring, formulaic gifts when you can put a little thought and love into it and get a personalized Valentine’s Day gift that shows you care.
Check out the video below, the CanvasPop mention starts at 3:04.
You probably have great pictures sitting right in your iPhone (or whatever camera phone you use) but did you know that you can print these pictures at any size? Todd Bernhard of iPhone Life magazine snapped a picture on his brand new iPhone, uploaded it to CanvasPop and shows us how to print iPhone pictures on canvas.
Stop taking pictures and start taking works of art with CanvasPop!
By Todd Bernhard, Submitted Thursday, August 5, 2010
If Yogi Berra were to assess today’s use of cameras he might say: “Nobody takes photographs anymore… they’re too busy taking pictures.” If you’re like me, you have thousands of digital pictures stored on hard drives and online galleries but only print a tiny fraction of them. Once in a while we’ll find “a keeper” and enlarge it to 11″x14″ and frame it, but by and large, photos stay on the computer and maybe a digital photo frame.
With this in mind, I tried something new. CanvasPop is an easy-to-use service that accepts digital photos and turns them into works of art. You can select from a wide assortment of sizes and finishing options. Available effects are Comic Book, Color Sketch, Pop Art, Sepia, Vintage, Black & White, Lomo, Color Isolate and Oil Painting.
Since the result is delivered on canvas on a wooden frame, I went with ‘Oil Painting’ to complete the effect. The result looks like it was painted, complete with drips and drabs, so you should decide if you want something photo realistic or more impressionistic.
The photo you submit doesn’t necessarily have to be a 10 megapixel high resolution image, especially if you’re going to use one of their special effects. The 5 megapixel camera in the new iPhone 4 should do the trick. Read More!
Visit the source: iPhone Life Magazine
A Picture on the Wall? Why Not Do the Whole Wall?
While digital cameras have largely shoved aside film cameras, how we store and show off our snapshots has changed little since the heyday of Kodachrome. Overstuffed shoeboxes have simply been replaced with cluttered hard drives and Flickr streams, leatherbound albums supplanted by Facebook uploads.
Luckily, however, one perk of the digital age is the opportunity to use printing techniques and materials once reserved for professionals.
Some of these can take favorite photos and turn them into works of art that go beyond oversize prints, like custom wallpaper, murals and decals. The services cost more than the one-hour photo hut, but the results can be stunning.
STRETCHING ONTO CANVAS Some companies offer the option to create stretched canvas pictures. The effect is instant art, ready to be hung. CanvasPop.com specializes in taking everyday photos, including candids snapped with a camera phone, and blowing them up without losing detail. Company technicians work on each image to ensure that an iPhone photo looks as good stretched across four feet as it does on a 4.5-inch screen. Read More!
Visit the Source: New York Times – Personal Tech
CanvasPop: Print your photos, art, and more on canvas
If you haven’t noticed, we are ALL about customizing your work/office space to whatever you wish it to be. That said, the art for your office is no exception and that’s where the folks over at CanvasPop come in.
Upload anything you want to create a print on canvas, in whatever size you want. You can choose from a photo, art, company messaging, logos and in this case, a collage. Upload anything you want to create a print on canvas, in whatever size you want. You can choose from a photo, art, company messaging, logos and in this case, a collage I created. It was beyond easy to place my order on CanvasPop and when the print arrived I was really amazed. It exceeded my expectations, after all how often have I printed something on canvas (the answer would be never)? You can even choose different effects to add to your print and they’ll even send you a proof so you can see what you’re getting.
-Sayeh, The Office Stylist
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