Photoshop advice for Canvas Prints

Canvas prints make truly stunning gifts and when printing your own photographs onto canvas, a perfect print reproduction is required. In order to acquire this, good Photoshop skill are needed, otherwise you may not be able to get the most out of your photos or canvas prints. Canvas prints are usually printed using quality canvas which wil reveal any poor Photoshop methods undertaken. Therefore, it is essential that you scratch up up your techniques in order to make the flawless canvas prints.

One of the most basic Photoshop techniques used when preparing your imagery for a canvas print is use the levels feature. Canvas prints need to have the perfect colour balance to look good and tweek the levels will enable you find this balance. If the canvas print image looks like it may be printed too dark or too light, then drag both light indicators from left to right to see which combination works. You should also beware the canvas print material often produces a darker output than what is seen on your screen and this should definitely be taken into account when preparing your canvas print image.

Another very important feature of Photoshop to use when preparing your canvas print image is the black and white application. Many people like to convert their canvas print into black and white, this may sound like a very simple process, however there are a few way’s you can prepare your canvas print to be converted and not all work. Photoshop has a desaturation application that can sometimes lead to your print being slightly off coloured. When preparing your canvas print, look out for this as the correct method, which is to use the black and white setting will apply a monotone that does not consist of any colour hues.

Photoshop is highly recommended as the primary tool for this kind of work. It has many other useful features that will be very helpful when preparing your perfect canvas prints.