Some of the first photo-picture ink-jet printers were used to make, print picture reproductions, in the early 1900s!. Today’s use of Giclee prints is also use to describe photo canvas production. The meaning is the same because it is ‘reproducing’ your photo-picture to a canvas using the best quality possible, staying true to the origination of Giclee prints.  Different reproduction techniques now range in different textures and finishes such as matte, water color paper, canvas cotton, or artist textured surfaces. The replication industry is quickly emerging as the best way to ‘reproduce’ and copy your favorite photos with an artistic appeal.

Having your photo printed on canvas can be tough to tell what photo canvas border may be the best to use, or if a border is needed at all. Before printing on canvas you may be able to use this help chart to get a glimpse of what your picture will look like on different borders or border-less! If you have a hard copy of your picture, you can print out this border sample and place your picture over to see if a border is needed, and if the border matches your photo to canvas idea. If you have a simple copy and paste photo graphics program (even Excel will work) you can paste your photo onto the frame example. As you may be able to tell from this example, you may use this same idea to copy and paste other borders as well so that you can have a side by side photo to canvas comparison.

Happy Photo Canvas Ordering

Giclee canvas prints are not just for puppies and that trip with your sweet-heart. Photo Canvas ideas have included printing on canvas for quite a few corporate walls lately. Visiting the towers of Diteks Devices, I came across not only a good photo canvas idea, but a moral booster for the employees. Less pension, less perks, less benefits, what’s left? Perhaps putting motivating photo canvases on the walls will not change the bottom line but it sure was an uplifting site as opposed to seeing more of those motivation posters that everyone has seen before.

The giclee canvas prints used were this, the delivery of the project from concept to final product, and the final product being used at the customer’s site. It was really pretty cool. There were about 8 very large (the largest canvas size available) photo canvases running down the hallway of the visitor’s entrance. The canvas texture made some of the pictures such as the design schematic look extremely cool. Somehow, the last canvas with the product being used by the customer gave that feeling that it was real. Something about the photo canvas texture makes certain things seem very real, like there was a purpose behind the work.

Several enhancements can be made to your pictures with the online services – such as photo restoration, photo colorization, and many other photo enhancement features. And for some of these, such as photo restoration, I would suggest adding this to your online photo canvas order, because often -the online correction software may be of higher quality than the software you are using.

However, There are some more photo canvas artwork ideas that you can use to apply photo canvas effects before you upload your photos. 

Photo canvas artwork – if you are wanting to turn your picture into artwork, then there are some extra tools you can use. Most of which are free. You can apply a lot of picture effects to your pictures before uploading them to turn them into photo canvas art.

To look for free photo editing software, perform a google search and look for ‘free photo editing software’, or ‘free picture editing software’. Now a days, there are hundreds of free picture editing downloadable applications out there that do a great job.

Some of the picture effects that many of these picture editing software applications offer are -  oil painting, modern art look, color pencil sketches, impasto art, inverse colors, abstract photo art, water coloring effect, and many others. However, before you go installing a few different applications, check your online photo canvas website to see what photo editing options they provide. For example, some of these picture art effects are also available online, saving you some time.

Below is an example of what using a picture effect could do to your photo. This is an actual example of a photo canvas created using photo realistic style. As you can imaging, creating your own photo canvas art such as this creates quite a conversation topic..

Also think about the gifts you can give with some of these photo canvas art ideas…  Use pet, puppy, kitten, pictures, vacation pictures, wedding and anniversary photographs, birthday and holiday pictures, Christmas-Thanksgiving and other holiday pics, baby and children photos, school and career pictures, and any other unique pictures could be used. Also, think about different rooms that you can create photo canvas art for – baby room, your photo canvas art in the living room, scenery pictures turned into oil canvas art for the bathroom, or even for your work or family’s house.

Happy printing – for your digital photos and photo canvas artwork!

Finding  a photo canvas collage example is not too difficult but I have not found how to actually make one, easily, and without the nicer software tools like Adobe. So here is a practical approach to creating a collage picture on your own before uploading.

There are two approaches to making a photo canvas collage or giclee canvas collage. One is to use the automated online photo canvas ordering service that lets you upload your pictures and let the experts work on it. The experts will take the pictures you upload to the photo canvas website, and develop a collage for you. The alternative is to make your own photo collage at home so that you only have to upload one picture. However, keep in mind this option is not for everyone. The advantage is that it is your own creativity, and you have placed the pictures together exactly as you may want them to look. The downside to this idea is if you do not have enough time or creativity on your side to do the work. If you do not! Then, let the online photo canvas experts do it for you!

If you do have the time and creativity to make your own photo to canvas solution, then here is how to get started. Take your desired pictures and have them all saved to your computer. Your photo is printed to canvas, so you only need to create one photo.

Begin by deciding if you will keep all of your photos the same size. Next, you can use one of two programs to size, resize, and move your photos. Microsoft Excel or Microsoft paint can be used to create your photo to canvas creation.

When using Microsoft Excel, you can select to import pictures. When selecting this option, import the individual photos you have saved to your computer and import all of them into Excel. Next, you can easily resize these pictures so that all your photos fit together like a puzzle. Once you have arranged all of your photos together, you can press the ‘Prnt Scrn’ button to Screen capture the picture. Once you have taken this step, you can paste the screen shot to a program like Microsoft paint or other photo picture editor to save your final photo collage file. Lastly, upload!

As you may be able to tell by now, this does require some technical knowledge for saving files, and opening the picture editing software. To amend to the prior statement, besides requiring creativity and time to create a photo canvas collage of your own, you may need a little technical help as well if you are not already very familiar with Microsoft office programs and picture editing basics. Again, if you are not – let the photo canvas experts do it for you!

Lastly, you may use just Microsoft paint the create your own photo collage file. The most important factor here is that you set your working space resolution to a resolution great enough so that the photo canvas size you select is not too big for the photo resolution you are uploading. To do this, you want to meet the canvas photo minimum resolution requirements. In Microsoft paint, select ‘Image’ – ‘attribute’. Here, you can set the resolution of your photo size. Make sure you set it to something like 1200 x 1600 at minimum. Once you have set the photo resolution needed, you can then copy and paste different photos into the white space available. Copy and paste, then drag around and drop until you have put the photos together as you like them arranged.

Now, you know the short version of how to make a single photo canvas collage file on your own, without requiring expensive photo editing software. If you dare to take the time and effort on your own to make this photo file, once your ordered - picture to canvas shows up, you will realize the reward of your efforts.

Happy Photo Canvas making!

Does Giclee print have the same meaning as Photo Canvas? Giclee describes photo images generated from high resolution digital scans and printing - using quality ink technology on various surfaces including canvas, and other photo base paper. Giclee printing provides better color accuracy than other means of printing and photo reproduction.

The Giclee printing process is typically created using 8 Color to 12 Color inkjet printers. Some of these manufacturers include Epson, MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett Packard. These always upgraded printer models are capable of producing extremely high detailed canvas prints ( or giclee Canvas prints ) for both fine art, professional photographers, and the creative home picture fan. Giclee prints are sometimes called Iris printing, but this is incorrect because Iris printing is a 4 Color inkjet print technology.

Giclee and Giclee printing is synonymous with photo canvas.

Digital photography is a form of photography that utilizes digital technology to make digital images of subjects. Until the advent of digital technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. Digital images can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing.

Digital photography is one of several forms of digital imaging. Digital images are also created by non-photographic equipment such as computer tomography scanners and radio telescopes. Digital images can also be made by scanning conventional photographic images.

Pixel counts
The number of pixels n for a given maximum resolution (w horizontal pixels by h vertical pixels) is the product n = w × h. This yields e. g. 1.92 megapixels (1,920,000 pixels) for an image of 1600 × 1200. The majority of compact (not SLR) digital cameras have a 4:3 aspect ratio, i.e. w/h = 4/3. [1]. According to Digital Photography Review, the 4:3 ratio is because “computer monitors are 4:3 ratio, old CCD’s always had a 4:3 ratio, and thus digital cameras inherited this aspect ratio.”[1]

The pixel count quoted by manufacturers can be misleading as it may not be the number of full-colour pixels. For cameras using single-chip image sensors the number claimed is the total number of single-colour-sensitive photosensors, whether they have different locations in the plane, as with the Bayer sensor, or in stacks of three co-located photosensors as in the Foveon X3 sensor. However, the images will have different numbers of RGB pixels: the Bayer-sensor cameras produce as many RGB pixels as photosensors via demosaicing (interpolation), while the cameras with Foveon sensors produce uninterpolated image files with one-third as many RGB pixels as photosensors. It is difficult to compare the resolutions based on the megapixel ratings of these two types of sensors, and therefore sometimes subject of dispute.
Resolution
Resolution provides an indication of the amount of detail that is captured, but, like the other metrics, resolution is just another factor out of many in determining the quality of an image. Furthermore, different methods of creating an image make it impossible to compare the resolutions of cameras simply based on the number of pixels produced by the image sensor. For example, the Sigma SD14 camera uses Foveon technology, which is quite different from most other digital cameras. It claims to be a 14 megapixel camera, but is generally considered to have detail-capturing capabilities roughly equivalent to 9 megapixels in terms of Bayer sensors. [2]

The relative increase in detail resulting from an increase in resolution is better compared by looking at the number of pixels across (or down) the picture, rather than the total number of pixels in the picture area. For example, a sensor of 2560 × 1600 sensor elements is described as “4 megapixels” (2560 × 1600 = 4,096,000). Increasing to 3200 × 2048 increases the pixels in the picture to 6,553,600 (6.5 megapixels), a factor of 1.6, but the pixels per cm in the picture (at the same image size) increases by only 1.25 times. A measure of the comparative increase in linear resolution is the square root of the increase in area resolution, i.e., megapixels in the entire image.

Resolution in pixels is not the only measure of image quality; a larger sensor with the same number of pixels will generally produce a better image than a smaller one. One of the most important differences is an improvement in image noise. This is one of the advantages of digital SLR cameras, which have larger sensors than simpler cameras of the same resolution.
Dynamic range
Practical imaging systems, digital and film, have a limited “dynamic range”: the range of luminosity which can be reproduced accurately. Highlights of the subject which are too bright will be rendered as white, with no detail; shadows which are too dark will be rendered as black. The loss of detail is not abrupt with film, or in dark shadows with digital sensors: some detail is retained as brightness moves out of the dynamic range. “Highlight burn-out” of digital sensors, however, can be abrupt, and highlight detail may be lost. And as the sensor elements for different colors saturate in turn, there can be gross hue or saturation shift in burnt-out highlights.

Some digital cameras can show these blown highlights in the image review, allowing the photographer to re-shoot the picture with a modified exposure. Others compensate for the total contrast of a scene by selectively exposing darker pixels longer. A third technique is used by Fujifilm in its FinePix S3 Pro digital SLR. The image sensor contains additional photodiodes of lower sensitivity than the main ones; these retain detail in parts of the image too bright for the main sensor.

High dynamic range imaging (HDR) addresses this issue by increasing the dynamic range of images by either

increasing the dynamic range of the image sensor or
by using exposure bracketing and post-processing the separate images to create a single image with a higher dynamic range.
HDR images curtail burn-outs and black-outs.

Advantages of consumer digital cameras
The advantages of digital photography over traditional film include:

Instant review of pictures, with no wait for the film to be developed: if there’s a problem with a picture, the photographer can immediately correct the problem and take another picture
Minimal ongoing costs for those wishing to capture hundreds of photographs for digital uses, such as computer storage and e-mailing, but not printing
If one already owns a newer computer, permanent storage on digital media is considerably cheaper than film
Photos may be copied from one digital medium to another without any degradation
Pictures do not need to be scanned before viewing them on a computer
Ability to print photos using a computer and consumer-grade printer
Ability to embed metadata within the image file, such as the time and date of the photograph, model of the camera, shutter speed, flash use, and other similar items, to aid in the reviewing and sorting of photographs. Film cameras have limited ability to handle metadata, though many film cameras can “imprint” a date over a picture by exposing the film to an internal LED array (or other device) which displays the date.
Ability to capture and store hundreds of photographs on the same media device within the digital camera; by contrast, a film camera would require regular changing of film (typically after every 24 or 36 shots)
Many digital cameras now include an AV-out connector (and cable) to allow the reviewing of photographs to an audience using a television
Anti-shake functionality (increasingly common in inexpensive cameras) allow taking sharper hand-held pictures where previously a tripod was required
Ability to change ISO speed settings more conveniently in the middle of shooting, for example when the weather changes from bright sunlight to cloudy. In film photography, film must be unloaded and new film with desired ISO speed loaded.
Smaller sensor format, compared to 35mm film frame, allows for smaller lenses, wider zoom ranges, and greater depth of field.
Ability to use the same device to capture video as well as still images.
Ability to convert the same photo from color to sepia to black & white

Advantages of professional digital cameras

The Golden Gate Bridge retouched for painterly light effectsImmediate image review and deletion is possible; lighting and composition can be assessed immediately, which ultimately conserves storage space.
Faster workflow: Management (colour and file), manipulation and printing tools are more versatile than conventional film processes. However, batch processing of RAW files can be time consuming, even on a fast computer.
Digital manipulation: A digital image can be modified and manipulated much easier and faster than with traditional negative and print methods. The digital image to the right was captured in RAW format, processed and output in 3 different ways from the source RAW file, then merged and further processed for color saturation and other special effects to produce a more dramatic result than was originally captured with the RAW image.

A canvas print. Also known as a stretched canvas or canvas art, is the result of an image printed onto canvas which is stretched, or gallery-wrapped, onto a frame and displayed

Description
Reproductions of original artwork have been printed on canvas for many decades using offset printing. Since the 1990s canvas print has been associated with either dye sublimation or inkjet printers (sometimes sold under the names Repligraph and Giclée respectively).

Modern large format printers are capable of printing onto canvas rolls measuring 60″ or more. Modern examples of inkjet-based printers capable of printing directly onto canvas are the HP Designjet z6100 and the Epson Stylus Pro 9880. Printers such as these allow artists and photographers can print their works directly onto canvas media.
Display methods
After the image is printed, the canvas is trimmed to size and glued or stapled to traditional stretcher bars or a wooden panel and displayed in a frame or as a gallery wrap. A print that is designed to continue round the edges of a stretcher frame once gallery-wrapped is referred to as full-bleed. This can be used to enhance the three-dimensional effect of the mounted print.

Giclee

Giclée (pronounced [ʒiːˈkleɪ] “zhee-clay” or /dʒiːˈkleɪ, from French IPA: [ʒiˈkle]), is an invented name (i.e. a neologism) for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word “giclée” is derived from the French language word “le gicleur” meaning “nozzle”, or more specifically “gicler” meaning “to squirt, spurt, or spray”[1]. It was coined by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial “Iris proofs” from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.

Origins
The earliest prints to be called “Giclée” were created in the early 1990s on the Iris Graphics models 3024, 3047, 4012 or “Realist” colour drum continuous Hertz inkjet printers (the company was later taken over by Scitex). Iris printers were originally developed to produce prepress proofs from digital files for jobs where color matching was critical such as product containers and magazine publication. Their output was used to check what the colors would look like before mass production began. Much experimentation took place to try to adapt the Iris printer to the production of color faithful, aesthetically pleasing reproductions of artwork. Early Iris prints were relatively fugitive and tended to show color degradation after only a few years. The use of newer inksets and printing substrates has extended the longevity and light fastness of Iris prints.

For further information on the origins of fine art Iris printing see Iris printer and Graham Nash/Nash Editions.

[edit] Current usage
Beside its association with Iris prints, in the past few years, the word “giclée,” as a fine art term, has come to be associated with prints using fade-resistant “archival” inks (including solvent inks) and the inkjet printers that use them. These printers use the CMYK color process but may have multiple cartridges for variations of each color based on the CcMmYK color model (e.g. light magenta and light cyan inks in addition to regular magenta and cyan); this increases the apparent resolution and color gamut and allows smoother gradient transitions[2]. The most commonly-used printers are models from manufacturers such as Canon, Eastman Kodak, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, ITNH Ixia, Mimaki, Mutoh, ColorSpan, and Roland DGA. A wide variety of substrates are available including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolor paper, cotton canvas, or artist textured vinyl. Indeed, a new industry has been created in supplying the media for this emerging market.
[edit] Applications
Artists tend to use these types of inkjet printing processes commonly called “Giclée” to make reproductions of their original two-dimensional artwork, photographs or computer generated art. Professionally produced inkjet prints are much more expensive on a “per print” basis than the traditional four color offset lithography process originally used to make such reproductions (a large format inkjet can cost more than $50 a print, not including scanning and color correction, as opposed to $5 a print for a four-color offset litho of the same image printed in a run of 1000). However, since the artist does not need to pay for market and store large print runs, and since the artist can print and sell each print individually to match demand, inkjet printing is used as an economical alternative to producing large runs of four color offset prints. Inkjet printing has the added advantage of allowing the artist to control every aspect of the image, its color and the substrate printed on, and even allows the artist to own and operate the printer itself.

Hanging A Photo Canvas
You may want to consider how you will want your canvas photo to hang and choose the best photo. A landscape photo would not look right against a portrait style canvas. The only photo canvas ordering website you choose should always offer a range of sizes so that you can choose the one that looks best in the right setting. A good picture canvas ordering website will also offer enough effects for your photo to customize as needed for matching. You may prefer the look of a black and white canvas print or the old fashioned sepia picture tones. Look for a supplier that will can offer touch up srevices for your photos, removes cracks and fades and remove red eye so that you get the best prints.
Getting these photo canvas gifts is as simple as uploading the photo that you want to print. For those who may not want to do that, you may also be able to send your picture in by mail. Although, it is well worth a few minutes of time to learn how to digitally upload a photo.
Different shipping methods and speeds should be available for your photo canvas. Once you have placed your oder, you will consider were to hang your new master piece. Another little tip, is to double up on photos for a modern look. This is often not considered but makes a bold statement and discussion piece. If you are a little more familiar with cropping your own digital pictures, you may want to save two copies and crop each one so that you have divided the picture into two halfs. Then, upload your two half photos to make two photo canvases. Make sure both photo canvases fit well on the wall space you have choosen. Finally, take the two pictures, and hang up on the wall one or two inches apart or space to your liking!

Happy Photo Canvas uploading.