If
you've taken a fantastic digital photograph why not display it well for everyone
to see? Maybe it's a great landscape shot or a lovely portrait and would look
wonderful printed on to a linen canvas print.
Canvas prints turn your photograph into a work of art.
Your image
is printed onto canvas which is then stretched over a wooden frame. Because of
this process you need to keep in mind that a couple of centimetres from every
edge will be lost as the canvas actually wraps around the frame.
Here
are what we believe to be the best websites that offer online canvas prints from
your photographs:
Bags
of Love (or photo-canvas.com which is the same company) is the winner of the
Digital Photo Gold Award for their canvas prints. This is based on the
type of printing, value for money and overall quality of the product. There are
plenty of sizes to choose from and delivery is fast (same day delivery for standard
sizes) and you can also choose one of their made-to-measure
canvases. You can select the depth of the canvas, either 2.5 cm or 4.5
cm and they promise that your print won't fade over time.
Photoline are specialists in roller banners, pop up banners, and pop up stands. They offer A1 poster printing and A0 poster printing services throughout the UK. Contact Photoline today for all your poster printing UK needs.
Fruit Art is more a site aimed at photo-montage than canvas prints. Nevertheless, it delivers leading quality photo and canvas prints at competitive prices. The high quality comes about as they make use of 200 year non-fade inks in 12 colours rather than the conventional 4. So customers are happy, customers like Tom: "The canvases really exceeded my expectations and I will be using you again..."
Fruit Art also offer a range of portraiture and photo montage styles for something unique. All canvases and frames can be previewed live online. Canvases are waterproof, dust-proof and scratch proof thanks to the high end "satin matt"heat-seal now used as standard.
Bonus
Print: There are a whole list of sizes to
choose from here. The prices are very reasonable and the postage is also
cheap. They use top quality ink and canvas to ensure that your image will be long
lasting.Kodak
Gallery have an option of giving your digital photo a brush
stroke effect, so it really does look like a painting. But if you prefer
to keep to the realistic image you can do that too. Five sizes to choose from.
However, until you log in to this site you don't get very much information about
their canvas prints products.
Canvas101 is a leading supplier of canvas art prints in the UK. Their large collection of canvas prints includes floral, banksy, wildlife, retro, perspex, acryclic and landscape canvas prints. A canvas printing service is provided too. (I have not personally used this service.)
theimagebox.co.uk specialise in producing high quality canvas prints. They claim to be the only website that still varnishes the canvas before it is stretched which "offers maximum protection and ensures that the canvas will last a lifetime". Materials used include quality 380 gsm cotton canvas, pine stretcher frames and Uv protective inks. Prices are competitive and a huge range of sizes are on offer.
Wallfillers claim to provide a top quality canvas printing service in UK offering special discounts on photo canvas prints. Quality is high, and rates reasonable. From the owner of the site, "We can convert your photos into different modern styles including black & white, sepia tint, photo enlargement effect, andy warhol, spot colour and butterfly effect." (I have not personally used this service.)