Turn Memories Into Canvas
It used to be that photographs were only taken on special occasions, events, or trips – carrying around one of the old-style cameras wasn’t always practical, and cameras were expensive. With modern technology people take dozens of photographs every day – your average smart phone has great quality camera functions and people regularly capture such important images of what they are having for lunch or similar.
Today’s photographs are mostly digital but, traditionally, this was not the case – every family will have a store somewhere of old photographs of varying quality and age that have captured important people, places, and events. It is an increasingly popular trend for people to want to enhance and display these nostalgic images – and the best way to do this is have your old photos transferred to canvas.
These easy canvas prints can be created by restoring and converting old, printed photographs to digital images, and then producing large canvas prints from digital photos.
Here are some tips for turning old photos into quality canvas prints:
Selecting the right photo
Whilst it may be tempting to just pick your favourite or most nostalgic old photo to commit to canvas, you should consider the content and composition of the picture – consider what it may look like enlarged and displayed on canvas.
Look at different aspects of the image – if featuring family and friends, are they all looking at the camera or, if you are reproducing an ‘action’ scenario (perhaps depicting loved ones/friends playing a sport or other fun activity) is it a genuinely ‘natural’ shot?
Perhaps you want to have a selection of old photos of your family through the generations, or scenes from specific holidays or events – whichever you choose, ensure the content of the picture will transfer to canvas in the manner you want.
Old and damaged photos
Whilst considering the content of your old photos, don’t disregard some of them purely because they may be in a poor condition – damaged, old, and scratched photographs can be restored and improved to a quality that makes them suitable to transfer to canvas.
Photographs that are faded and marked can have the damage removed or even ‘cropped’ to retain the quality of the image to frame perfectly – so, even old photos with imperfections can be used to produce stunning canvas prints for your home or office.
Quality canvas prints
Having gone to the trouble of having your old photographs restored to better condition and higher quality, you will want the canvas reproduction to do justice to the images – ensure you choose a canvas printing company that uses quality canvas and printing inks for their work. Inferior print materials and canvas can result in ‘dulled’ and blurred images negating the work undertaken to restore the images in the first place! When choosing a canvas print company, it is always worth researching them – an online search of ‘canvas prints near me’ will produce a list of local print companies offering the canvas print service – read reviews and view online some examples of their work before opting for a canvas print company to handle your precious images!
Most print companies will accept digital photos directly from you but will also offer a service to take a hardcopy photograph and create a digital copy of it, from which they can produce a spectacular wall canvas of your favourite photograph!
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