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“Morning in the Field” by Steve Smith
The CanvasPop team is loaded with photographers, designers and creative minds, so when we heard that Steve Smith—one of our Customer Experience Reps—is a winner in this year’s Eco Art Contest we had to shine a spotlight on his talent.
Steve is one of 40 photographers between the age of 14 and 24 who will have their work exhibited this winter in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at Dows Gallery on the Rideau Canal Skateway and have the chance of being awarded one of three top prizes.
When asked about his winning photo, he said: “My shot was taken in Chelsea, Quebec just outside Gatineau Park. We got up really early trying to catch the sunrise in the park but stopped at an abandoned barn off the road. The sun was still low enough to give a nice golden cast to everything.”
Steve first became interested in photography about 5 years ago and likes photographing empty urban scenes, especially at night. “They have a completely different look and the lighting can make an otherwise banal subject look really neat,” he says.
He found out about the contest last year when he saw the exhibition on the Rideau Canal. “Since I recently finished my degree in environmental studies, I thought the theme was really important. It ended up being a cool way of connecting my education and passion!”
We’ll be strapping on our skates and speeding down to catch a glimpse of Steve’s photo as it lights up the exhibition later this month.
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.
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!
Splashing black and white photos with pops of color can turn any dull image into one with an instantly obvious focal point. It’s a great technique to showcase a message or detail that might not get noticed otherwise. Plus, it’s fun!
Here’s a step-by-step guide for doing a very basic color isolation using Photoshop. We’ll use the girl in the blue as an example to walk you through the process.
STEP #1: In Photoshop, open your image and create a duplicate of it right away. In your Layers Tab, right click on your background layer and select duplicate layer. This is a good way to start off no matter what you’re working on. If you make a mistake, it will allow you to easily revert back to the original for a fresh start. Now, work off the background copy.
STEP #2: Select Adjustment Layer (looks like a yin-yang) and create a Hue/Saturation Layer. It will be added in the Layers Tab above the background copy. This is where you can select which colors you want to get rid of. At the top of the tab, you’ll find the Master Channel. Drop down to the color you want to eliminate. In our case, we drop down to the ‘red channel” and using the saturation slider, bring it all the way down to 0%. It instantly takes out the hues in her skin and nailpolish.
STEP #3: To make the colors really pop, you can use a Vibrance Layer. To do this, add another Adjustment Layer. Increase the slider to get the look you want.
STEP #4: When you’ve reached your desired result, save your image as a JPEG.
C’est fini! Your first colour isolate.
We know it’s not the first time we’ve said this, but we really love to print iPhone photos! What we love most is impressing people with the awesome filters they can apply to the pictures. It makes them look amazing on canvas, just ask Bryce Casselman and Todd Berhard.
Now, if your love your iPhone and we love your iPhone photos, that pretty much makes us family, right? In an effort to get to know our “family” better, we tried out some of the most popular iPhone photo apps right here at CanvasPop headquarters.
PHOTOSHAKE allows you to easily combine one or more photos to make your very own collages. You just upload or take pictures right then (what we did), chose your layout and then shake that iPhone like a polaroid picture! The app shuffled the photos around into what you see. We picked the frame and gave that a pop of color.
HIPSTAMATIC was very interactive and makes you feel like a real photographer. With this app, you get to look through and choose different kinds of camera lenses, film and flash types. Then, you take a picture using those and depending on the combination you get different results. Here’s CanvasPop’s resident DJ “Juice”, he’s also a very talented frame maker and was hard at work. This image was made using a Buckhorst H1 lens, Ina’s 1969 film and no flash.
CAMERA+ is an app for the wanna-be photography pro. There are so many fantastic features on this app that we didn’t know where to start! We decided to sneak up on Stacey, one of our awesome graphic designers busy working, to take a sneaky peak at what she was up to. Using the app, we made the image on her computer screen the focus and applied a filter to make it pop. Then why not make it look like an old school polaroid.
CARTOONATIC lets you take cartoon-like pictures and promises to show you the world in a whole new “cartoonatic” way. We love this shot with the big “MAKE ART NOT WAR” wall decal behind Shipper Extraordinaire Ian. Make sure to take note of our values too! Those make up who we are as a company and we live by ‘em! This app helps us to “Be Fun” that’s for sure.
INSTAGRAM of course! Last, but definitely not least. We’re HUGE fans of this app, just one of the over 7 million people who are addicted. It’s super simple, just take a picture and then you get to try out all different kinds of filters. We had a hard time picking our fav to put on this snapshot of our printing/laminating area, but ended up deciding on the “Nashville” filter. Instalicious!
It’s that time in your life. You hug teary-eyed Mom and Dad goodbye and head off to assert your independence. You’re off to COLLEGE! We understand you’ve got a budget to [try to] stick to but, while textbooks are expensive, it doesn’t mean you can’t show those terribly institutional-feeling bleach white concrete walls who’s boss.
Here are some great canvas art ideas, and hey, it’s cheaper than painting a room too! This fab dorm decor is guaranteed to be a hit, almost as sure as the Freshman 15.
Cut the Umbilical Cord… kinda
Bit of a momma’s boy or daddy’s little princess? Your parents literally just drove away and already you’re homesick. Well, snap out of it! You can have them there with you all the time. Take your fav family portrait and proudly display your heritage on the wall. If it’s one of those pics where you’re all dressed the same, that’s extra awesome.
That’s What Friends Are For
Oh, those sweet high school memories. The bleachers where you had your first kiss (Do people still do that?), that prank you pulled on the freshman and, who could forget, PROM!? O-M-G PROM!!! Even though you’re far away, your friends from home never have to be. Put your hilarious high school memories up and it’ll make you smile every time you look at it.
“Live, Laugh, Love”
Everyone has a quote that they love. They’re inspiring, they make you think and they make other people think you think about smart things like inspirational quotes. Impress that cutie from down the hall with deep and meaningful prose plastered on your wall. Way to go stud!
Be a Leader, Not a Follower
You know those poster sales that come through your school only have so many options. How many times are you going to walk into another person’s dorm and see the same print hanging on their wall? Unoriginal much? With stock images readily available for purchase on the internet from sites like iStock Photo (www.istockphoto.com) you have a plethora of wall art options at your disposal. For a small fee you can purchase the rights to a picture of your choice and print away. Bravo. We knew you had it in you.
If All Else Fails, Facebook to the Rescue
Don’t remember the last time you had a photo printed? Mostly they go to good ole Mark Zuckerberg and stay captive in the digital dungeon. But, they don’t have to! With all the cool filters we have available, low-res images can look awesome when printed in a larger format. Throw a pop art effect on one of the tagged photos from Frosh Week with all your new friends. Look who’s popular now! (Psst, it’s you.)
Extra tip: Have everyone in the picture sign your canvas print. A great memory to keep forever.
Sure, Flickr is an amazing site full of great images and user submitted content but we wanted to see what else was out there.
1X.com features amazing images submitted by talented photographers from all over the world. It’s a great site that will inspire and entertian you for hours. The collection although user-submited is screened and curated which ensures that all the images have a certain wow factor. Here’s how they describe themselves:
1x is a photo community with a difference. Take the work of the most talented photobloggers, various famous photographers, and many serious amateurs, select their best work and collect it all in one place – that is 1x. Everyone is welcome to contribute, but every photo is screened, which means it has to be approved by an editor (screener) before being published. 1x is a photo gallery with a constantly evolving exhibition. We publish dozens of new images every day.
A great place to get cool photo canvas ideas for your next CanvasPop project.
Visit www.1x.com and get inspired!
What’s your favorite photo site? We might feature it in our next blog post.
A contrast in realism! You see elements of Heine's caricature in this Pencil vs. Camera
Fitting? Yes…Creative? Absolutely!!… I just had share the artistic works of Ben Heine
a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer from Brussels.
This particular image is part of his “Pencil vs. Camera” series that combines photos with
pencil drawings by superimposing the sketch onto the photo. Ben will take his own photos
and consider the image as a battle between the drawing and the photograph.
“The great thing is that the photo and drawing are 2 different ways of expression but they go
well together and they definitely have the same purpose: share an idea, an emotion, a
concept or a message.” Ben Heine
For the full Pencil vs. Camera Series visit Ben on Flickr.
Want to create your own personalized artwork from photos?
With the help of our personal designers, you can transform any photo into personalized
artwork on canvas. Get Started with by uploading your photo.
Photo Credit (Ben Heine/Pencil Vs Camera -12)
January comes to an end and searching begins! Search? You say. Have you found the perfect gift for your special Valentine?Just when we think that we are in the clear from the festive gift giving in December, we are now on the lookout for the perfect gift to give on February 14th.
Some of us have a handful of favorite classics that we turn to i.e. Chocolate, Candles, Cards and Flowers. But the reality is most cards are read and tucked away, candies are eaten and forgotten.
It’s 2010 now. Time to leave the generic gifts out of your holiday repertoire and surprise your Valentine with something more personalized. Here’s your chance to print their favorite pictures on canvas.
Express your love by immortalizing a favorite image as a canvas print.
How can you go about this? Here are some simple ways.
Surprising someone with a canvas print is as easy as getting your hands on some photos. Work with virtually any image, including iPhone and Facebook and create personalized pictures on canvas. The possibilities are endless!
What if you don’t have a picture that comes to mind?
You just might be inspired by check out some of our ideas for canvas prints. We have seen family portraits, pictures of couples, and abstracts shots as well. There is something for everyone.
Photo Credit ( LOVE by Jackie/ Sister72)
Are you ready to create your personalized pictures on canvas?
Get Started with CanvasPop by uploading your photo.
36" x 54" Black and White Aerial Photo
Do you have Aerial photography you want printed?
Aerial photography is the act of taking photographs of the ground from the air. The image above displays an aerial photograph taken with a telephoto lens that is displayed in our co-founders office.
We have all seen shots of Aerial photography, but have you ever had the chance to fly in a small aircraft over the countryside? For some of us we have not had the opportunity, while others have seized the opportunity to capture some photos up in the air.
Two 18" x 24" Aerial Photos printed on canvas
Anoushka Afonso from New York, NY printed her personal aerial photography on canvas. She tells CanvasPop that the two photos were taken about a year ago while she was flying over the San Francisco area in a small aircraft.
Her camera of choice? A Cannon power shoot camera. You do not have to be a professional photographer or have a DSLR camera to create photos on canvas.
Photo Credit (Jenn W. from CanvasPop of A. Afonso’s aerial photos enlarged on canvas)
- Are you ready to have your personal photography on canvas?
Get started with CanvasPop by uploading a photo.
