Posts Tagged ‘Canvas Art’
In honour of our upcoming travel photography lecture, Photo-Tripping with Younes Bounhar, we’re giving away two of Younes’ stunning photos on canvas.
How to enter:
Simply vote on your favorite one for a chance to win!
Contest Details:
We’ll randomly pick two voters (one voter per photo) and they’ll win their preferred photo as a 20×30″ CanvasPop canvas!
One entry per person. Open to residents of the USA and Canada.
Don’t worry if you can’t attend Younes’ lecture—stay tuned for some video after the event!
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.
This week’s MailBag question is in regards to scanning an image or photograph for printing. If you do not have a digital copy of your favorite photo, you can always scan your physical image first.
Question: Do you have any tips for scanning your photos to get the best results for printing on canvas?
Answer: “The best tip that we can give you is to plan before you scan!”
Why do we say plan? Many factors of scanning may differ based on what you are looking to do with the final image. Are you looking at enlarging the original photo for printing on canvas?
If this is the case you need to consider the following things:
Resolution: The resolution refers to the dots or pixels per inch of your photo. The more dots/pixels per inch (dpi) in your photo the more detail you will be able to see when you look at the image close up. (Pixels are the little squares that together make up the image)
- As a general rule of thumb it is best to scan your images at the highest level possible.
- Scanning between 300dpi and 600dpi will result in the best image quality from the original size. (Remember the higher the number the better the overall image resolution).
File Format: When scanning an image it is best to save your image as a JPEG or a TIFF file.
- JPEP’s are great for enlarging photos for printing on canvas put a TIFF actually records more detail.
- I suggest saving your scan as a TIFF first, and then as a JPEG. This will give you more versatility to work with your images
Bit Depth: When scanning an image you will have several options for bit depth to consider:
- Grayscale
- Black and White
- Full Color
It is suggested that you always scan in Full Color even if your photo is in Black and White. You will get more detail from the image. Which will create a better print in the end.
Photo Credit (Ségozyme)
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Wondering about the kinds of images you should use to create canvas prints?
Check out last week’s MailBag to find out more.
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.
Tom's CanvasPop piece signed by Lady Gaga.
Tom placed his order with CanvasPop hoping to have his art piece delivered in time to get it signed by Lady GaGa. Thanks Tom for sharing your finished canvas piece with us.
Here’s what Tom had to say about CanvasPop:
“Thank you guys so much for working with me on getting my print on canvas out on time. GaGa loved it & was very happy! Thanks again!”
48" x 72" B&W Photo on Canvas (Photo by Anthony Carrino)
It is always great to hear what our customers think of the their finished pieces. Even better to see how the pieces look hanging on his wall!
Today’s Customer Spotlight features the custom canvas art that Anthony Carrino had printed by CanvasPop. He had a personal photo enlarged on canvas and transformed into a 3 panel Triptych piece seen here hanging on the wall.
Thanks so much for sharing Anthony your canvas pieces with CanvasPop on Twitter.
“@CanvasPop just hung my canvas u printed 4′ x 6′ 3 panel black & white #photograph. I love it thanks! #photography”
How many times have you let life get in the way and missed your opportunity for autumn photography? I know I have.
This is just what Chad Galloway set to capture the changing leaves and the fall colors. He tells CanvasPop that he would have not captured the original picture if it had not been for the State Troopers.
You see at first he didn’t even notice this wooded area . A few towns later he ended up getting stopped by the state trooper and having his car towed because the insurance card in his car had expired. Even with valid insurance, he had no way of proving this. Chad ended up spending the night in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
The next day and hundreds of dollars later he was able to get his car back. He started heading back home and was in no mood to take pictures.
"The forest was so dense and the vegetation was so bight. I had to stop and take a few pics no matter how bad I felt. I’m kinda glad it worked out the way it did though because I probably never would have got this pic, if I hadn’t been pulled over" Galloway
Chad did not set out in search of the perfect photo that day and ending up printing fall photos on canvas. You never know when you might capture your next picture for a canvas enlargement.
Do you have any photos you would like to print on canvas? For inspiration check out the canvas images in our ideas gallery.
Follow @CanvasPop on Twitter for the latest “insider” images, ideas, and tips.
The L.A. Times – November 06, 2009: CanvasPop is featured in the daily Home and Garden section of the LA Times Online. You can turn your own photos into wall art, and it’s pretty affordable.
Do you have any personal photos you want to display in your home? Check out all the the possible canvas printing options and ideas to create your custom canvas piece. It has never been so easy! Anyone can upload a photo and an one of our designers will contact you with a free digital preview.
There’s something special about graffiti street art. Some see it as an eye sore, a form of vandalism, a crime. But some street art is so interesting and artistic it belongs in an art gallery. Some of the best graffiti art I have ever seen outside of New York is in Venice, California. One weekend I decided to hunt the neighborhood for some interesting “street art” – it wasn’t hard to find these works of art around almost every corner; in alleyways and doorways in the streets of Venice. For any connoisseur of high quality street art Venice is a true paradise.
Maybe you’re looking to buy graffiti art on canvas. Why not shoot your own? It’s fun and easy and you’ll get a great sense of satisfaction doing it yourself.
Using an inexpensive “point and shoot” (Canon PowerShot) I shot away at the various graffiti art pieces I found.
Here are some tips for finding graffiti art and turning photos of street art into pieces suitable for wall art:
The right location: find the best areas where quality graffiti art can be found. I’m not talking about “tags” and vandalized walls- I mean real street art. My favorite cities are in New York, Miami, Los Angles and Toronto. If you want to see a neat site that can help you search different areas checkout StreetArtLocator.com- the collection is a little light but it’s fun to use.
Composition: I like to shoot graffiti art in context- as opposed to shooting it close up. I like it when you can tell that it is graffiti street art on a wall. To make things even more interesting I also like to have the photo a little off-center. There really is no wrong way to shoot graffiti…it’s up to you.
Inspiration: Here’s an amazing gallery of graffiti art to get your creative juices flowing. One of our CanvasPop clients recently had these amazing graffiti pictures turned into canvas: (see below.)
So get out there, explore, have fun and shoot some amazing street art. When you’re done share it with us or upload it and turn it into a canvas art print at CanvasPop.
Graffiti Canvas Art, Triptych made by one of our clients. Photo credit Duane Brown, Toronto, Canada
