To mark Fathers day Canvas Prints Online are offering half price shipping on all orders from 8th June to Wednesday 16th June which is the last date you can make an order to be sure to receive your canvas prints in time for Fathers day.
£4.99 shipping applies to all orders and so the more canvas prints you order the better value you have. This accompanied with the lowest prices on the market and our lifetime guarantee make Canvas Prints Online the best option for your Fathers Day Gifts.
This Month we will be running a competition where you can win a 36 x 24 inch canvas print, delivered to your door - this prize is worth £71.99 !
All you have to do is enter your chosen photo into our competition. At the end of the month the winning photo will be sent to the photographer as a stunning 36 x 24 inch canvas print.
All photography is accepted to the competition it could be a beautiful landscape, interesting scene or any photo that you feel is something slightly special. The closing date for this months entries is Wednesday 31st March and we will post the results on the same day.
Good Luck !
Competition results
This month the image winning a 36 x 24 inch canavs print worth £71.99 was ‘Morning Glory’, the winning photograper states ‘ thanks for the excellent canvas print I look forward to entering the competition again’.
Mothering Sunday this year in the UK is the 14th March 2010.
It’s traditionally a time when children pay respect to their Mothers, often through the giving of card and gifts.
This year why not consider a photo on canvas print as a perfect gift. It’s a great idea for a truly unique gift, the image you choose is upto you; it could be a recent family event, hoilday or special memory. Any mother is sure to love a good picture of her children or grand children on canvas as a premanent life - long reminder on her wall.
Canvas Prints Online can turn your photos into works of art.
Canvas Prints Online love to keep a close relationship with all our customers and love to hear that you’ve recommended us!
We’d like to encourage this further by offering our customers free prints in exchange for a link on their website or recommendations in social networking sites like Facebook - or any other shameless ideas you might have!
We are offering free vouchers valued between £1 and £250 in return for text links and other recommendations of our fabulous services!
The voucher we offer you will be dependent on the rank and popularity of your website and the position that the link is placed - so the bigger and bolder your link, the more we’ll offer you in return.
If you are interested in our links for prints campaign, please contact us and we will get back to you straight away.
Canvas Prints Online offer an extensive range of photography and art prints ready to brighten up your wall space. Our gallery is primarily photography based and we have stunning imagery from around the world available to purchase online.
We also have a creative selection of canvas art which ranges from iconic art to interior pattern designs. Our interior patterns and iconic art prints are developed exclusively for Canvas Prints Online and are in sync with popular trends. We take influence from various aspects of interior design and popular culture, are focus is to create art that will suit modern interiors and to provide the public with an exciting range of canvas art. Our photographic canvas prints are also carefully chosen with contemporary wall space in mind.
We aim to offer a vast selection of prints that will add style and create interesting focal points in a variety of rooms. Canvas Prints Online have many more new prints which will also be available to purchase as high quality canvas prints very shortly. So please come back soon if you cant find what you are looking for!
February 14th is St Valentines Day; a day when lovers traditionally express their feelings for one another through the giving of gifts and Valentines cards. The giving of a photo on canvas print can make the perfect gift, especially as you can tailor the image used to match the level of relationship that you share with your special one.
This year Canvas Prints Online have also teamed up with the famous Love Heart’s brand to offer some truly unique Valentines Day gift ideas. These Canvas Prints can be customised with your own text or message to make a one - off gift, simply choose the message and let us create a stunningly beautiful personalised photo gift that you can be proud to present as a Valentines day gift.
You Can view our range of Valentines canvas prints here.
Order before the 10th February to ensure you receive your print in time for Valentines day.
Photo canvas prints are in vouge these days and many people use photos onto canvas to decorate their homes.
To transfer photos onto canvas, you can get digital photographs printed on the canvas and use it instead of the normal photographs. The photos printed on canvas give a unique touch to the picture and can win you a lot of appreciation. Similarly apart from photos onto canvas, you can also get giclee prints on the canvas wherein the fine art prints can be converted into digital art and then printed on canvas. Read More..
We have just uploaded a new customer showcase page showcasing all our best canvas prints. This Page shows a wide range of canvases we offer and we hope that it conveys the quality of the products that we produce.
Canvas Prints Online have set our delivery times at 3-4 working days. This is because we have had requests to meet tighter deadlines from some of our customers and we have responded.
Canvas Prints Online cannot offer next day delivery like some other companies do because of the time and effort that is required to make a good canvas print like the ones we produce.
A good canvas print needs a lot of care and should not be rushed as you have paid a lot of money for it.
In our opinion canvas prints cannot be made to an acceptable quality with in 24 hours with 1pm in the afternoon cutoff deadlines like some canvas printing companies offer.
Canvas Prints Online believe that we will not be matched on Price or Quality.
Since launching our Feautured Artists Gallery, we have viewed numerous ranges of beautiful artwork. Canvas Prints Online has chosen Rishi’s ‘ Karmic Loops ‘ as our piece of the week. Rishi creates abstract paintings with seemingly random brushmarks through which organised patterns emerge. His work is influenced by scientific and philosphical ideas such as chaos theory, emergence, quantum physics, eastern spiritual teachings. Rishi will be contributing more canvas art in the coming months and we all look forward to seeing his next piece of influential wall art.
Canvas Prints Online is a company who’s roots are in graphic design, art and photography. We love all things creative and this passion has motivated our endeavors to help artists gain exposure. We want to provide art and photography to those of you with discerning taste and appreciate undiscovered talent.
Our new Featured Artists Gallery will be developing in time to satisfy the yearn for high quality art and photography. We already have a long line of enthusiastic artists soon to appear.
If you would like to be added to our Featured Artists Gallery then please contact our Creative Director here.
Our designers have been working hard at creating a new range of styles and effects for your canvas prints. For the rest of January these effects can be applied to your canvas print for only a £5.00 additional fee, this is truly great value and an excellent way to make your own piece of canvas art even more unique.
Due to the current heavy snow in the North of England our staff are experiencing difficulty in getting into the offices. For this reason our Canvas prints and Acrylic prints will be delivered slightly later than our usual 3 - 4 working day delivery. We will endeavour to dispatch all canvases as soon as possible once the weather conditions improve.
Happy new year from the Canvas Prints Online team.
Many Thanks to all of our customers for making Christmas 2009 such a successful time for Canvas Prints Online.
As we move into 2010 we are showing our gratitude by continuing our December Sale into the New Year. All of our prices have been reduced by 10% from their mid 2009 levels and many have been reduced by 20%. There is also no VAT to pay on any of our Photo to Canvas, Canvas Art Prints, Acrylic Prints or Wall Art Stickers. Thus you can beat the government’s VAT increase by using Canvas Prints Online this New Year.
This year we will be greatly increasing our online image galleries as well as offering several new and exciting products as we continue to provide innovative high quality wall decorations at a great price.
Thanks to all our customers for making this our busiest Christmas to date, we have been inundated for orders for our photo on canvas service and our canvas prints. We are currently still operating with a 3 - 4 working day delivery and we anticipate our cut off date to receive orders in time for Christmas to be Monday 21st December.
We have added new icons to our Galleries. These images are 100% unique to Canvas Prints Online and can’t be found anywhere else on or offline. Manchester Canvas prints include John Lennon, Ian Brown, Noel Gallagher, Morrissey and Wayne Rooney however our gallery is also stocked with iconic canvas prints from around the UK.
Canvas Prints online are now on Twitter and Facebook. Please click on the Icons below to Join our canvas prints online Facebook group and our follow us on Twitter.
We will be using Twitter to post details of order dispatch dates and to keep everyone updated with our latest offers.
Our designers at Canvas Prints Online are highly experienced in getting the best out of images for your canvas prints.
We currently offer 2 types of wrap: With Bleed and Without Bleed.
‘Without Bleed’
If you select this option we print your photos on the front surface of the canvas whilst the edges remain white or with a colour of your choice. This can added to suit your image or the space in which your canvas it is to be hung.
This finish is ideal if there is important detail towards the edges of your photos which would be lost around the sides of the canvas if you choose a bleed edge.
‘With Bleed’
If you select this option for your canvas print our designers will use their discretion and either use part of the image to wrapped around the sides of the canvas or use a clone technique for the border’s of your canvas.
Your image will be wrapped around the side of the canvas when there is enough space around the subject so that important detail isn’t lost around the edge of when printing your photos on canvas.
For this option you will need to make sure that you allow for the depth of the stretcher bars 44mm on all sides of your photo before printing.
If there is not enough non - critical elements of your image to use for the sides of the frames we will use a clone method, which is an excellent way to create a gallery wrap effect without losing the composition of your image.
We copy detail from the sides of your photos and flip it over to add enough extra to allow for the depth of the stretcher bars (either 30mm or 40mm depending on which you choose).
Which ever option you choose you can be sure that the canvas prints online design team will know exactly what is the best way to treat your image to get the best out of your photo on canvas print.
We have already stated that printing your photo on canvas, can make the perfect Chirstmas Gift, but photos on canvas make a great option for a neutral gift on any occassion.
Photos on canvas can easily reflect the level of relationship you have with someone or can mark any occasion in style. Consider photos on canvas for:
*Birthday presents - The neutral nature of a photo on canvas print means that you can choose the photo to exactly match the level of relationship that you have with the person receiving your gift, from an intimate and special moment with your girlfriend to a night out with friends, a photo on canvas print can provide lasting memories.
* New baby gifts – one of the busiest times for our cameras is when a new baby is born. Taking a great new baby picture and transferring it onto canvas is the perfect way to celebrate a new life and makes a lasting memory of a special time. This sort of gift could also work well for relatives or friends who live too far away to see the newborn at first hand.
* Wedding gifts – whether the bride and groom are setting up a new home or have been living together for years, it can be difficult to think of a really personal present. Photo printing on canvas is the perfect answer. Find a photo that represents their commitment, or shows them in previous years and have it reproduced on high quality canvas.
* Retirement gifts – surprise a long-standing member of staff by presenting them with a canvas print. By talking to their spouse or relatives, you can get hold of a great photo and use photo printing on canvas to create a retirement gift that’s out of the ordinary.
* Housewarming gifts – most people have everything they need when they move home and it can be difficult to know what to give as a housewarming gift. Photo printing on canvas allows you to give something special – a landscape reminder of the area they’ve left behind or a happy family shot from a holiday – anything can be printed onto the canvas and it can be proudly displayed in the new home.
Canvas Prints Online provides high quality printing for digital photos on canvas. Using the best materials, reproduction software and printers, you can be sure that the photos that mean most to you can be beautifully captured on canvas. We print photos on canvas all the time and we’re proud of our reputation for top quality at affordable prices.To find out more or to order your digital photos on canvas today, browse our website now: www.canvasprintsonline.com
We are Manchester’s leading independent Canvas Printing company. Our location on the out skirts of Manchester City Centre make us the ideal choice for all of your Manchester Canvas Printing needs.
No other Canvas Printing Company in Manchester can provide you with the personal level of service that we can offer both to consumers and to trade clients. For locally collected canvas prints we can usually have your prints ready to collect within 24 hours sometimes even the same day if your canvas prints are ordered pre 10am.
Due to recent events and upcoming industrial action by Royal Mail, we will not be using them to post any of our Canvas Print Parcels out.
We are now only using a dedicated courier companies, namely Fedex and Initial City Link so you can be assured that your canvas prints will arrive to your door
without any disruption.
Whilst browsing our canvas art prints categories, or our standard range of sizes and prices, have you ever thought that you liked a piece but that it wouldn’t quite fit into the space you had envisioned?
Here at Canvas Prints Online we can create canvas art in sizes that start at 8″ and go upto 72″ in 2″ increments, so any size combination can be achieved, meaning that we can adapt any of our canvas art prints to fit any size space in your home or office.
So if you have spotted some canvas art prints that would brighten up that long, tall space in your hallway or you need a big square filling, send us an email and we will do our best to come up with a solution for you.
You won’t find a canvas print that matches our quality cheaper anywhere so what are you waiting fo?
We are now offering Photo on Acrylic print’s, either using your own photo on acrylic or one of our gallery images.
Displaying your photos on acrylic is a spectacular experience. The moment you see your photo displayed on Acrylic Photo you’re greeted by glorious luminance through the stunning glossy surface. But that’s only one gleaming quality of Acrylic Photo from Print Lounge. With our state-of-the-art direct print process the picture is brilliant and sharp from edge to edge, and with a number of finishing options you can customise it just the way you want it.
We’ll print your digital images using a lavish 12 colour print process. Unlike other suppliers who use a low quality direct printing method onto the acrylic panel, the special photographic vinyl we use is skilfully bonded to the reverse of a 10mm super glossy cast clear Perspex panel with flame polished edges. Please note that the higher the quality of your image, the better quality the final print will be.
Precision engineered. Beautifully made. You’ll immediately notice the difference. Choose Acrylic Photo from Canvas Prints Online and we’ll turn your photos into beautiful and captivating art pieces for your home or business.
Skip the traditional socks and underwear and go for something extraordinary like a Digital Canvas print. Our Digital Canvas prints or Canvas Photo Prints make great-personalised Christmas gifts, due to the fact that they are so versatile.
You can print anything from idyllic scenery to modern art, family memories; professional wedding photos, holiday snaps, children’s art, the list is endless. Another idea is to have an image of their favourite city, landmark or holiday destination printed. Alternatively you can pick an image from an online image catalogue.
Photo Montages are also a great gift and one that any parent or distant family member will cherish for years to come.
Here at Canvas Prints online we currently supply to several large trade customers and professional photographers. Our trade print service is designed to fulfil all the needs of a company or individual wishing to offer fine art and Giclée canvas printing stretched and unstretched to their customers or in order to compliment an existing photographic services portfolio.
We can provide a bespoke service based on your exact needs, on various depth’s of stretcher bars and sizes between 8″ and 72″.
Please get in touch by calling 0161 272 7349 and asking to speak to a member of our accounts team.
Wall Stickers offer a number of things that other wall art options have not been able to offer. Wall stickers have the potential to cover spaces that are comparable to wall coverings like wall paper and wall paint. Wall stickers are not permanent, this means that you could change them out as often or as rarely as you want. You could take them with you when you leave a location. They are almost entirely customisable also. This means original designs can be produced on wall sticker material. They are quite suitable for home use and businesses. This new wall art option is versatile and fun. Its ease of installation and removal make it a suitable option for the inexperienced as well as accomplished installers.
It is that time of year again as the day’s start getting shorter and we start using the central heating after it’s summer hibernation, these are the signs that the holiday season is just around the corner. It is already time to start thinking about picking our holiday gifts for our loved ones. If you are stuck for holiday gift ideas, why not consider canvas prints and wall art for your loved ones’ rooms or offices?
Canvas prints will make a wonderful holiday gift and your loved ones will be reminded of you every time their eye crosses the wall art you gifted them. It would certainly be a nice way of building relationship too. Canvas prints are a very neutral gift and it is suitable for all age groups and for all levels of relationship. You just need to pick the right photo or art for the wall art depending on the intimacy level.
If you have several images lying around that you have no idea what to do with a photo montage can make a great gift that will have pride of place on the family wall for years to come.
One of the best things about canvas prints is that they are not expensive but at the same time, it will be highly appreciated by the one who receives this gift. There are so many options when it comes to canvas prints. You can choose portraits of your loved ones or choose nice scenery or even pick famous paintings and convert them to beautiful canvas prints. Canvas prints from Canvas Prints Online come in ready to hang form so your loved ones can put them on to their walls immediately without having to look for someone to mount the picture on to the frame.
As we are still in the clutches of recession, we need to look for less expensive gifts this holiday season too. However, the gifts that we choose should not look cheap though they are not expensive. Canvas prints will be ideal gift that will certainly fit within your budget. They make a very thoughtful gift and they never look cheap as long as you get your canvas prints from a reliable store such as Canvas Prints Online.
Canvas prints can make sensational pieces of wall decoration when the composition includes mist. Seasonal mist and fog can quickly transform a familiar landscape. One of the great myths about landscape photography is that you can take all the time in the world because the landscape is stationary and isn’t going anywhere. If only this was true! Landscapes are only as dramatic as the accompanying weather and the subsequent light this brings, and both can change in an instant.
Here are some great locations for mist and fog:
The Lake District, Cumbria
This tourist hot spot is a mecca for mist hunters. Fog lingers longer on west facing slopes and in sheltered bays on the larger, cooler lakes. Try the Derwentwater jetties, Blea Tarn, Bassenthwaite and Buttermere. Click here to view our Lake District Gallery.
The Lake District
The Broads, Norfolk
Pick a photogenic windpump and frame it with reeds… there’s plenty of potential for ethereal mist pictures here. Head for Turf Fen, Horsey Mere or Thorney Dyke - You’re certain get some shots to make stunning canvas prints.
Snowdonia, North Wales
This mountainous National Park contains several bodies of water perfect misty morning views when spied from above. Llyn Parc, Llyn Dinas and Llyn Crafnant.
The Buachaille, Scotland
Head towards brooding, desolate Rannoch Moor and Glen Coe on the A82. On cool damp mornings, mist hangs about the shoulders of a mighty pyramidical peak, Bauchaille Etive Mor, like a dramatic curtain.
The Somerset Levels
This coastal wetland is famous for its mists, sprawling between the Mendip and Quantock hills. Galstonbury Tor and Burrow Mump make excellent subjects.
Whitby Abbey, North Yorks
Facing out across the North Sea, this mystical abbey and quaint seaside town get their fair share of sea fog through out the year. Small wonder Bram Stoker got his inspiration for Dracula here. You can also see how numerous photographers have been inspired to come here, which normally results in beautiful canvas prints.
We like to help you achieve good photos here at Canvas Prints Online. This is a post in our series of photography tips: Focusing and Depth of Field
Depth of field is the space in front of and behind the plane of best focus, within which objects appear acceptably sharp. Though accurate, this definition tells or example, use it to imply space, to suggest being inside the action, or to emphasize the separation between elements within the picture area.
Varying depth of field
Your chief control over depth of field is the lens aperture: as you set smaller apertures (using f/11 instead of f/8, for example), depth of field increases. This increase is greater the shorter the lens’s focal length, so that the depth of field at f/11 on a 28mm lens is greater than it would be f/11 on a 300mm lens. Depth of field also increases as the subject being focused on moves further away from the camera. The corollary of this that at close focusing distances, depth of filed is very limited.
Using depth of field
An extensive depth of field (resulting from using a small lens aperture, a wide-angle lens, distant focusing, or a combination of these factors) is often used for the following types of subject:
- Landscapes, such as wide angle- general views.
- Architecture, in which the foregrounds to buildings are important features.
- Interiors, including nearby furniture or other objects, and far windows and similar features. As a by-product, smaller apertures tend to reduce lens flare and improve lens performance. A shallow depth of field (resulting from a wide lens aperture, a long focal length lens, focusing close-up, or a combination of these) renders only a small portion of the image sharp, and can often be usefully applied to:
- Portraiture, to help concentrate viewer attention.
- Reducing the distraction from elements that cannot be removed from the lens’s field of view
- Isolating a subject from the distracting visual clutter of tits surroundings
Autofocusing
Two main methods of autofocusong are used. In compact cameras, a beam of inferred light scans the scene when the shutter button is pressed. The nearest and strongest IR reflections are read by a sensor, which calculates the subject distance and sets it on the camera a fraction of a second before the picture has been taken.
The other main method is ‘passive’. Part of the light from the subject is sampled and split up, but only when the lens is in focus do the parts of the image coincide (or are said to be ‘in phase’). The crucial property of this system is what the phase differences vary, depending on whether the lens Is focused in front of behind the [lane of best focus. Autofocus sensors analyse the pattern and can tell the lens in which direction to move in order to achieve best focus.
Though sophisticated, autofocus systems can be fooled. Beware of the following circumstances:
- The key autofocus sensor is in the centre of the viewfinder image, so any off centre subjects may not be correctly focused. Aim the focusing area at your subject, ‘hold’ the focus with a light pressure on the shutter release button, and then return the viewfinder to the original view.
- When photographing through glass, reflections for the glass may confuse the IR sensor.
- Photographing beyond objects that are close to the lens, through a bush or between the gaps in a fence for instance, can confuse the autofocus system.
- Moving close-up subjects may be best kept in focus by setting a distance manually and then adjusting your position backward and forward in order to maintain focus,
- With very fast moving subjects it may better to focus on a set distance and then wait for the subject to reach that point before shooting.
Hopefully this provides you with some good advice to get the best out of your images on canvas.
Keep checking back to this blog for further tips on photography and image preparation.
Canvas Prints Online are now offering a unique range of creative, hand painted artwork. We have been working a long side one of Manchester’s most talented artist’s to provide you with an exciting and affordable selection of iconic artwork.
Every piece in this range is hand painted and available to purchase as beautiful giclee canvas prints. Our first addition to the gallery is a painting of the beloved Bob Marley. Produced using oils an canvas, this painting has already received lots of attention and we have orders requesting original reproductions, where the artist paints the piece on order! If you are interested in bespoke orders then please contact our sales team on: info@canvasprintsonline.com.
Most of our customers our keen to purchase giclee print reproductions of our artist’s original painting’s. This is mainly because they are priced less than if you were to buy an original. The quality of the print reproduction is however, exceptional.
It is an interesting and methodical process that the artist undertakes to complete one of his painting’s. We will show you exactly how they are produced in an article due to published next week. Please come back to see how it is done!
Here at Canvas Prints Online we appreciate good photography. Over the coming weeks in weekly instalments we will be offering insights and tip’s to help you get the best from your photography. Please feel free to leave any comments and feedback, we love to hear from you.
It is possible to measure you progress in Photography by you attitude to camera controls. At first they may seem like a burden - an obstacle rather than an advantage - but as your command over them improves, they turn into invaluable tools, a power helping your creative processes. Of all the camera controls, the shutter speed setting is the most distinctivley photographic.
Shutter Settings - Exposure time
The shutters primary function is to set the exposure time. While it’s open, the photographic exposure is created by a summing up of all the light that falls on the sensor or put another way; Shutter speed is one of several methods used to control the amount of light recorded by the camera’s digital sensor or film. It is also used to manipulate the visual effects of the final image beyond its luminosity.The resulting record is not just of the light falling, but also the spatial realtionship with the sensor. This means that the sensor records all changes in position of the subject or of the camera itself, however minute they may be: in short the sensor records both light intensity and movement.
With a short exposure time, there is less chance for movement to travel a significant distance on the sensor. This means that there’s less chance for movement to travel a significant distance on the sensor, therefore blur from any moevement cannot easily be seen: the image looks sharp. If we hold the shutter open for longer, movement in both the subject and in the camera can draw a blur that’s large enough to be seen. Given that a blur only about a tenth of a millimeter long, from a distance of about 8 inches, the eye will assess the image as being unsharp.
Short Exposures
In order to obtain the sharpest picture you would therefore assume that it would be best to use the shortest exposure time, this can , in fact, have a negative effect on your image. A brief exposure may require a large aperture, or you may nee to use a high ISO setting or sometimes both.
These compensations may undermine your attempts to capture a sharp image: the large aperture reduces depth of field, calling for more precise focusing, and may also reduce image quality. A high ISO setting may increase noise (this lowers the shaprness of detail, not to mention lowering the quality of colours.)
Consequently, you may find that if you unhackle yourself from the tyranny of the brief exposure time and it’s adherence to sharpness, your pictures improve. Allow yourself a longer exposure to work with blur or allow slight movement of your image. Modern cameras which feature image stabilisation provide an excellent approach to movement. Using a tripod and keeping a steady hand will also help with your photos.
On this page, you’ll be able to keep up with the latest design offers and news available from us.
We will be adding guides to digital photography, photoshop tip’s and tutorials as well as many other articles regarding the world of photography and printing so keep checking back!
The Blog will also provide a means to make your voice heard… What canvas prints would you like to see more of here at Canvas Prints Online
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