Photobloc Blog – Canvas Prints

You can create your own Art Gallery easily by going on-line to our web site and submitting your family photos to be printed as canvas photos.

When ordering why not request a paint effect and we will convert your canvas photos into paintings, simple as that.

This easy yet effective way of producing canvas photos will look stunning and make a great addition to any family home.

There are many styles of paint effect to choose from for your canvas photos, simply contact our enquiry line for further information and let us produce your canvas photos today.

To bring a view of the outdoors inside your home has many advantages.

It helps break up large walls by creating that feeling of extra window views.

This can be done easily and cost effectively, canvas prints of your favorite landscape will do just that.

Photos on canvas are simple to hang, just two screws each.

On a long wall try mounting a row with different views all produced as canvas prints and see the whole room open up.

There are many ways in which to enhance your images before we proceed to canvas printing, these can be stunning visual treats and are numerous, but here are just some of the filters we can apply.

We can add a grained effect ranging from a wood finish, textile effect, stone grain and various paper finishes, to name but a few.

We can apply artistic effects that basically change your image into such art forms as watercolour, pallet knife, air brush, crayon, etc. Thus a standard photograph becomes an original piece of art, either in a contempory form or in a more traditional style.

By altering the colours we can change the image to traditional black & white, classical sepia or modern tints of a specified colour, the options really are countless.

By gaussian blurring the background but then using a careful application of the history brush the background can be softened to give greater attention to the main subject. This is especially useful when the background is confussed or not important to the visual story you are trying to create with your canvas prints.

Having decided to have your treasured images printed onto canvas what style of edge will you go for?

We can wrap the image around the front board and then set it into the front of the frame so that the frame shows, this realy is about enjoying the natural beauty of the wood and how it can compliment your image.

These are available in a choice of three:-
Toscana – a dark, rich chocolate brown with a high gloss finish.
Nearly Black – a semi-transparent black stain with a matt finish.
Pine – a pale, translucent golden pine with a satin finish.

Alternatively we can wrap the canvas print around the whole frame with the image on the front face and the sides in a choice of three styles:-
Solid black printed canvas.
Solid white printed canvas.
Gallery wrap – a small section from each edge is cloned, flipped into reverse and then stretched back over that edge as a coloured reflection.

So much to choose from and all are available to enhance your home or office with your own choice of images each presented as a canvas print to your specification.

A lot of people make the mistake of saving thier files as jpegs without setting the file size.

This generally compresses the file but doesn’t allow expansion again when re-opened thus causing pixellation when enlarged.

It is a common problem but one that is easily avoided.

When saving your camera downloads alwys save as jpeg but set the file size to the maximum size possible, this will still compress the file to save disc space but when it is re-opened it will allow the image to expand back to its original high resolution form and thus allow me to produce a canvas print as a canvas photobloc at virtually any size you want.

So a new year is upon us and time for new beginings!

Changing weather with the full force of Winter brings chaos and cold but it also brings superb views across wintery landscapes dusted with sparkling snow, frosted cobwebs in the hedges, children’s snowmen in all thier varied forms. All those images just crying out to be photographed. But how to display them afterwards? Select the best that give a varied and informed view of the season and print on canvas of course!

The New Year can also bring abou change in our personal lives, maybe a new addition to the family, or maybe a newly met partner. Plenty of opportunity for some really special portraits and of course transfering those photos onto canvas will be a great way of presenting them within the home or even as gifts to friends and family.

So what ever the New Year means for you, get snapping and we will get printing!

Like many businesses we are inundated with orders in the build up to Christmas, last minute presents, presents long planned but not arranged yet.

To help you, opur valued customers acquire the presents you want on time and to allow us to acheive the through put we have come up with a simple solution to the problem.

A great offer of 20% discount on all orders for canvas printing, photos onto canvas and canvas pictures that are placed before the end of November!

So what are you waiting for, get ordering today and your canvas prints are gauranteed to be ready for Christmas.

Beat that last minute rush today.

Have you ever looked at the Wall Art in the homes and offices sampled in design programmes and thought wow, then shopped around and realised how much it costs! Misspelled
True, there are cheap alternatives but they are mass-produced and therefore hardly unique.

Take far more personal images from your family photos, something that means so much to you, these are the images that should be displayed as your own wall art.

But how? easy, select the images and submit them to us for canvas printing, a selection of your favorite photos reproduced as canvas prints will enhance your home and produce that bespoke wall art look but be unique to you and your family.

Canvas photos of your holidays or places of interest that you have visited, family occassions, what ever is important to you when reproduced as a canvas print will become your own bespoke wall art, exceptional effect for but a small price.

Driving home last week I passed a sign advertising a ploughing and hedgeing competition on the following Saturday, intrigued by this I decided to investigate further.

Saturday came and I went to watch. There was the serious competition between various farmers but more intereastingly a demonstration competition between two old steam powered traction engines.
These mechanical giants of yesteryear went head-to-head with ploughs across a large field. Wreathed in steam and accompanied by thier unmistakable smells and sounds, these beomoths dragged the heavy plough back and forth across the field to the cheers and admiration of an enthusiastic crowd studded liberally with photographers, myself included.

Next they re-equipped them-selves with chains and in an incredible show of pure strength, ripped massive tree roots from the ground along the hedge row. It was like watching mechanical gladiators!

My camera was busy capturing the show-down for a great selection of forthcoming canvas prints.

These were followed by the majestic teams of shire horses, each brilliantly turned out. Resplendant with thier dark leather work contrasting with the polished brasses, twinkling in the Autumn sunlight as these gentle giants of bygone days laboured seemingly effortlessly up and down the field turning row after row of perfect furrows. The crowd were delighted, as were the competitors at this show of strength and skill.

I must admit that I too was equally delighted with the canvas printing that resulted from my camera and its busy day.

Whilst some I will keep exactly as they are before I print on canvas, some of the more atmospheric I will convert into sepia tint canvas prints to remind me of a great day out.

As the Summer closes and Autumn approaches we see a remarkable change of colour in the landscape.
The last of the Summer’s harvest is brought in with scenes of intense agricultural activity, tractors piled high, dust swirled fields as the massive harvesters complete thier work.
The trees and hedgerows change colour as greens fade to golds, reds, yellows and browns.
Blue skies give way to slate grey and clouds.
Incredible sunsets and sunrises.

All in all my favourite time of year and the time when the cameras should as busy as possible gathering all these wonderful views.

The fields are gradually textured with plough lines like a giant woven textile, very reminicant of the texture of the canvas print hanging above my desk. It was taken around this time last year and still has the power to evoke a fond smile.