Canvas Prints: How To Transfer Your Masterpieces To Print

By: Carla San Gaspar

Having your portrait on canvas need not be expensive or frustrating. You can opt not to spend a fortune hiring a painter, which mind you, does not guarantee satisfactory results. You can rely on your own skill, imagination and canvas prints to create your magnum opus.

It doesn’t require long years of disciplined practice, nor does it require genius like talent. All it takes is some computer know-how and a reliable printer to create your piece de resistance.

Canvas Printing

You can fully enjoy your photographs and digital images on a new plane. Canvas prints are an ideal material to print your images. These are perfect for artwork and photo reproductions and would hold well the colors and the details of your images or design.

However, sometimes, it takes some effort to furbish these images to create the effect you want to on the canvas prints. Here then are some ways you can achieve this.

Adobe Photoshop and Canvas Printing: Achieving Digital Effects

Now, you can select your favorite photograph, be it your portrait, or even a landscape, a picture that has that painting potential and have it printed on canvas. You can use Adobe Photoshop to add effects that will make your snapshot look like a bona fide artwork.

Here are a few Photoshop techniques to turn your snapshot into an object of awe:

• Adjust the color of the snapshot by making it more subdued. This can create a soft texture to the overall design, making it seem like an old-painting. Create a new lawyer of the image, and make adjustments in the hue and saturation (Ctrl + U). You may choose to lessen the saturation of the whole image and highlight a few key colors such as red or orange. Play around with the tonal values until you achieve the results you wish.

• Using the blur tool, you can make the unimportant elements blurry to give a softer effect and to emphasize the more poignant elements (i.e. the eyes)

• Use the brush strokes filter to create the illusion of brush strokes.

• You can create the washed out effect. Create a new layer and fill it with white. Using the eraser tool, erase parts you want to be visible. Play around with the layer opacity, and the eraser’s options.

• To create the chiaroscuro effect, you can burn the areas where the shadows are supposed to fall.

• If you want a spotlight effect, you can play around with the lighting effects in the filter section under Render.

Have fun with it. After all, it is your masterpiece. However, it might do well to remember some of these details for your canvas printing.

• Make sure that you’re photo has a good resolution. Talk to your printer about their requirements.

• Unlike card stock, canvas being made of fabric is soft and does not have a definite form. It is a good idea to frame it and mount it.

• It is very important to select a printing company that offers high quality printing. Ask them for an online proof of your image so you can be sure that you will have the output you want.

Good luck and have a beautiful gallery filled with your canvas prints.

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