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Canvas Posters Make Great Gifts

Tuesday, February 16th
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Looking for a unique, personal gift for someone special in your life? Tired of giving that same old gift all the time? You know; bath sets, pajamas, gift cards… they all get really old after awhile and it can be hard to find the right gift to give that they will love and that you will love to give. Well, what if you could give them something that they could enjoy for the rest of their lives and always think of you when people asked about it? How about a beautiful canvas poster of one of your favorite photographs as a gift for someone special? Think about it, you can give unique canvas posters to those favorite people in your life for the same price as you’re going to spend on an impersonal gift from a department store. Here are some tips on choosing the right type and size of canvas posters to give to loved ones:

1. Give photos of people or places they love. You know that grandma loves you all and that your parents all love to see the kids, so give them a canvas poster of your last family portrait or one of all the grandkids together and they will flip over it. Or, you can choose to give them a canvas poster of the place that they honeymooned in Hawaii or their favorite lake house. There are all different ways to get creative with the pictures that you choose for canvas posters for your loved ones.

2. Choose the right size. There are several different sizes of canvas posters that you can pick but you want to make sure that your family member will have a place to display the size that you choose. Some canvas posters are just too big, yet some might be a bit small for a centerpiece on a wall. So, it’s best to try and take a look at the area that you think they would hang it before you order. This way, you can determine the wall space that they have available and what size of canvas posters might look the best in their home or offices.

3. Set a budget. When you are looking at the different sizes and types of canvas posters, make sure that you consider the costs when you order. If you have a set budget that you want to stay within, make sure that you order canvas posters that are within that budget range.

Overall, there are thousands of great ideas that you can use to create beautiful canvas posters for your loved ones to give as gifts for any occasion. You no longer have to worry about getting them the same old tired gifts year after year. Instead, get them something that they will truly love and enjoy.

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Adding Special Touches To Canvas Prints With Extra Brush Strokes

Tuesday, February 9th
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Canvas paintings are a beautiful way to show off a talent, create a lasting work of art, and, today, to have another avenue to show off beautiful digital photographs. There are so many wonderful ways that you can have your digital photographs printed onto canvas that will give them different looks and evoke different emotions each time. Some photographers are finding unique ways to shoot pictures that will create a truly wonderful work of museum quality art when turned into a canvas painting. And, some painters are finding ways to take digital pictures on canvas and turn them into truly unique canvas paintings that are unlike anything else out there today.

With the developments in technology that create canvas prints of photographs, it’s easy to see why some artists would begin to use these prints to create some extremely beautiful art works by adding to them. After having a canvas print created of a photograph, a painter can then choose where to change anything on the print, such as adding in abstract landscapes, turning a print into a unique work of art with extra brush strokes, or completely changing up the look of a photograph by changing the scenery around the subject. There is so much that can be done with canvas paintings when a skilled oil painter takes on a canvas print, it’s amazing to see finished products.

Oil painters use some of the same basic principles that they do when creating a new oil painting when they are using a canvas print, but they don’t have to do a lot of the background work. Instead, they can concentrate on how they want to change the canvas painting and turn this one photograph into a really wonderful work that will inspire anyone who sees it. Plus, they have the ability and talent to take a photo and completely change the emotions that it evokes from someone looking at it.

There are so many great talented oil painters who have been creating unique works from digital photographs on canvas that are offering their work for sale online. You can even get these canvas paintings done from one of your own photographs by some of these artists. These pieces of art end up being truly amazing, and every one is unique. You will find that by simply adding in a few additional brush strokes by a talented painter can create a work of art that anyone would be proud to display in their home or office.

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What Are Giclee Canvas Prints?

Monday, January 18th
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Many people that are new to the canvas printing world are not quite family with some of the terms that describe the different types of prints, inks, canvas, techniques and more; Giclee is one of them. Giclee is actually a name that was invented by Jack Duganne in 1991 to describe the process of creating beautiful fine art prints from any type of digital source that uses ink-jet printers to print them. The word itself is taken from a French word, “le gicleur”, which means “nozzle”. Although “gicler” in French actually means “to squire, spurt, or spray” which more accurately describes the way that these art prints are created with an inkjet printer. Giclee canvas prints have become a wonderfully beautiful way to show off different forms of digital art, from photography to abstract to art created on the computer.

With the wonderful advancements in archival inks and canvas treatments, these Giclee canvas prints are created with specialized materials that are designed especially for these types of canvas prints. The colors in the inks can cover just about any color imaginable, which means that any artist’s renderings will come out beautifully clear on any type of canvas print. Even though some artists still use the ink-jet to print paper copies of their artwork in a mass production, there are those that still consider them “paintings” of sorts and only create Giclee canvas prints that are created for a specific customer or for sale in galleries.

Today, Giclee canvas prints are more associated with those artistic creations that are actually done on the computer through some of the different editing software that is out on the Internet. From abstract art works to portraits created completely on a computer, there are so many talented artists that are creating Giclee canvas prints that sell for thousands of dollars and offer a beautiful way to enjoy digital art throughout your home or office. With the different advancements in the inks and treatments that canvas printers use on their canvas prints, these Giclee canvas prints can last well over 100 years which means that anyone that invests in them will easily be able to enjoy and pass these art works down through generations.

Giclee canvas prints are becoming an art form that extremely talented computer artists are using to bring their talents to the world. Since they can offer beautifully created Giclee canvas prints cheaper than they can physically paint a picture, it’s easy to see why there are so many digital artists out there who are falling in love with having their works printed on canvas.

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Giclee Art Prints on Canvas

Wednesday, January 6th
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Looking for a way to decorate your home or office with some beautiful art prints on canvas of your favorite paintings? Want to be able to show people your appreciation for different forms of art when they come to your house, your office, or give them as gifts to family and friends who love certain artists or art forms? But, you really don’t want to pay for expensive reprints of some paintings through auctions or online sites right? You want to find a better way to get them, without spending an arm and a leg. Well, art prints on canvas of well-known paintings aren’t that hard to find.

Giclee art reproductions (or fine art prints from a digital printer of your favorite art pieces) are a beautiful way to enjoy some of your favorite pieces of artwork from throughout the centuries without spending all of your savings. Plus, these art prints on canvas are as durable as any other canvas paintings out there. In fact, most created today are more durable and will last well over one hundred years without showing fading or wear. They cost half the price of some of the auction site’s prints (normally merely framed paper prints) and you don’t have to worry about them looking cheap. Instead, you have a beautiful art reproduction of that da Vinci, Van Gogh, Raphael, or other famous artist’s work on canvas, that looks as close to the real thing as you can get.

It does not matter what type of art work you prefer, what type of painting formats you prefer, oils, acrylics, watercolor, you can get them all as Giclee art reproductions. Your favorite artists, new budding artists, abstract or traditional, you can find them as beautiful art prints on canvas to purchase and display right out of the shipping packaging. Since there are many artists today who use Giclee to create beautiful art reproductions, it is a great time to find art prints on canvas for a very reasonable price.

These professionally created canvas prints will cost you a bit more than a traditional framed paper print, but not much. And, when you consider the fact that canvas prints are created and treated so that they will last over one-hundred years, it’s easy to see why you would want to get art print on canvas instead of a flimsy paper print. Just remember, if you’re going to upload your own digital image of a work of art that you did not create, make sure that you have the right to reproduce it.

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Tips For Choosing The Right Type Of Photography For Large Canvas Prints

Wednesday, December 30th
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Ready to take some of those pictures that you love and turn them into large canvas prints to hang and show off? Before you take off and start editing your photographs, let’s take a look at some tips and tricks that will help you choose the right processes for your photos that will allow for the very best printing on canvas and give you the most beautiful large canvas prints:

1. Black and white always make clean, classic large canvas prints. From the early days of photography, black and white has always been a way to create a classic, clean look to any photo. It is very elegant as well, and can be a way to create beautiful large canvas prints of portraits of a single person at a time. Black and white can give you a way to capture the true beauty of an image without worrying about matching and balancing colors, and so on.
2. Adding one color hues to black and white photography can produce beautiful results. There are so many great photo editing programs out there that will allow you to add in only one hue to a black and white photograph, such as blue or pink. Now, you do want to make sure that you use this type of editing sparingly, as overusing it in a photograph that you want to have turned into large canvas prints can actually make your images look bad in the finished product.
3. Full spectrum photography can be a fun way to filter your photographs and create extremely unique photographs on large canvas prints – In full spectrum photography, the photographer (or editor) uses special filters that take pictures with ultraviolet or infrared filters to create specific results. While most of the time, these filters are used in law enforcement, geology, and even forensics, they are also becoming a staple of the artist photography world.
4. Color photography is sometimes best – Sometimes, an image or art piece is just too busy to use any other type of editing or filter on it and it is best to leave it in the original color photograph form. You will know as you start to play with the different editing tools that can create different filters on your photographs. It your photograph just starts to look odd or wrong then you will know to change it back to the original image and have large canvas prints created of that photograph.

You want to make sure that you try out some of the different forms and filters when it comes to your photography and editing before you have large canvas prints created, as after they are done it is too late if they look bad. Editing them at home can be a great way to ensure that you get beautiful large canvas prints every time.

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Are Canvas Prints Here to Stay?

Tuesday, November 24th
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If your unfamiliar with the emerging craze of putting photos onto art canvas, in a sentence it is a budding contemporary art movement that you’re going to be seeing more in more often, not only in homes and offices, but also in photography and art galleries. This new media for displaying photographs is truly stunning. It is an intermingling of the modern digital photography with the classic use of canvas in paintings. Surprisingly, the process of putting photos on canvas is quite simple. A professional digital photo of any subject, be it a landscape, person, object, or anything else you can think of is printed onto canvas using high tech photo printers with specialized materials. The result is half art half photo, with the definition and detailing you would expect of a real life snapshot but with vivid texture-derived details that can only be accomplished with canvas. Better yet, canvas prints can be in full vibrant color, black and white, or anything in between.

Despite the glowing praise canvas prints are receiving more and more today, there are still a lot of people expressing distinct concerns over their validity as a real print medium. These concerns involve the longevity of the print permanence, durability of the product, and whether or not canvas prints are unique enough to have the staying power to be a lasting print solution. These often voiced concerns are not surprising, given that there is always some commotion surrounding innovative processes, especially in the artistic world.

To address the concerns, let’s first discuss the durability of the actual canvas print product. The photograph is first printed onto the canvas, which is then sealed and stretched over traditional art canvas stretcher bar. Therefore, it is as strong and sturdy as any artwork on canvas. Additionally, because of the process and treatment of canvas prints they’re nowhere near as vulnerable to the elements, or even mishandling as oil or acrylic paintings on canvas are. It is absolutely impossible to smudge a digital photo on canvas, and the canvas sealer makes it nearly waterproof, as well as resistant to dust, scratches, and impervious to finger prints.

Not only are canvas prints durable, but they also have an impressive longevity – also known as print permanence in the photo world. This type of media is not prone to easy fading. In reasonable climates, low in humidity, it is even possible to display canvas prints outdoors without much impact on the print’s longevity. Whether indoors or outdoors, a canvas print kept out of direct sunlight can last for many, many years – even decades. Under ideal display conditions a canvas print can keep for over 100 years without any signs of fading, as tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research. The sealers used to finish canvas prints also make the print nearly waterproof, ie: one can hold a canvas print from ZaZa Gallery under running water without seeing any signs of damage.

As you can no doubt see, canvas prints are not just a fad, they are a new and innovative way of printing your precious photos. Canvas is a medium that adds beauty, uniqueness, and lifespan to any print, and canvas prints make wonderful, classy display pieces for the home or office.

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Canvas Prints Make Excellent Buys For Your Customers

Thursday, November 19th
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When it comes to professional photography, there are so many different photographers that are beginning to offer their customers canvas prints of their favorite photos instead of just normal paper prints. They try it one time, and then they will swear by canvas prints and try to make sure every customer they have gets one.

It’s not just the extreme beauty that makes canvas prints so great for photographers to offer to their customers. They also offer a great way to increase your profits while providing the highest quality canvas prints to your customers that will last for over a hundred years. Simply try printing photos on canvas once and you will become a firm believer in what they can do for you and your customers.

When you stop to think about the benefits of canvas prints, it’s so easy to see that they far outweigh the normal paper prints. Take out any paper photo you have and compare it to a canvas print. See how the paper photo looks flat and artificial? See how the texture of the canvas brings the photo to life? Think about those beautiful masterpieces hanging in museums around the world. Canvas paintings last hundreds of years since canvas is so durable.

But some photographers think that canvas prints are extremely expensive or that it’s impossible to create larger prints due to some of the processes used to create them. With all of the advances in the printing process, the archival inks that are used today are no where near as expensive as they once were. And, even the most difficult process in printing on canvas, stretching it around the frame, isn’t that expensive either. Actually, it is the hand stretching of the canvas on the frame that make it so durable and sturdy to last for generations to come. It doesn’t mean that it will be more expensive, it only means that you are getting high quality work from a trained professional canvas printer that your customers will fall in love with immediately.

Don’t let the small details of how canvas prints are created get in the way of offering this great opportunity to your customers. These are not only a great way to offer them a museum quality print that will actually last for generations, but they are a great way to increase your own profits. ZaZa Gallery is solely a professional canvas printer that allows you to outsource your photos to them for printing and still provides the highest quality materials and service, producing the best possible print. If you really want to choose a canvas printer that will take their time and do the job right, not just with machines that can cause problems with the overall print, then order from ZaZa Gallery.

If you can get a canvas print that is museum quality and will last for over a hundred years, it is easy to see why your customers would choose it. And, since the costs are low enough to create a great way to increase your bottom line, why would you not offer it to them?

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Add Value To Your Photos By Using Canvas Prints

Wednesday, November 18th
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Have you ever wondered why there is such a big difference in how an original oil painting looks in a museum and how a print of that same painting looks on paper? Maybe they use different types of inks, maybe it’s just that it’s under glass – right? Actually it’s all about the canvas. Paper gives an art work a flat look, no life whatsoever in the people, places, or things in the picture. Yet, canvas has texture and depth, and offers a wonderfully unique way to bring anything to life on a flat surface. When the inks or paints meet with the canvas’ textured surface, it’s so easy to create eyes that seem to follow you, waves that seem to lap at the shores, and clouds that seem to change as you walk along.

Don’t you wish that you could bring that wonder to your photos? It seems that some photos are just begging to have another chance at coming to life and recreating those memories again. How do you do that? How can you make normal pictures suddenly seem to leap off their flat surfaces and touch your heart once more? Easy, have them printed on canvas.

Canvas prints offer something that paper just cannot – the ability to bring anything to life by simply hanging it where you want to see it. Since canvas offers a wonderful texture to your photos, they will take on a whole new life all their own. Your favorite memories will sparkle and shine just like they did when you took the photo. And, they make wonderful gifts for anyone in your life, by offering them those same great memories that they miss as well.

Canvas prints have been growing in popularity over the past few years and they offer a wonderful way to ensure that your favorite photos will last for generations to come. But, printing on canvas isn’t something just anyone can do, it takes practice and skill to ensure that every picture you print on canvas provides the same museum quality work. It’s not something that you want to leave to chance, you want someone familiar with the whole process – from the inks to the treatments to the right canvas – and not someone who doesn’t know what they are doing.

When a canvas print is created, there is a lot that goes into the process. A canvas print has to be worked by hand, stretched, sealed, and wrapped so that the canvas will last. It also has to be treated correctly to protect it from the environment. And, the inks have to be the right type as well so your print doesn’t fade within a few years. Without any one of these particular things being done by a professional, your beautiful canvas print might not last even a quarter as long.

But don’t think that just because this is such a long process that canvas prints are too expensive for you to purchase. In fact, they are actually extremely affordable, especially when you consider that you will have to print a photo and then purchase a mat and frame for it. It’s easy to spend more on the framing than it is to just have a canvas print made. Don’t waste your time any longer, trying to save those favorite photos from damage or wear. Have them printed on canvas to preserve those memories for generations to come.

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Should You Frame Canvas Prints?

Thursday, November 12th
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Photo and photography lovers will often spend the extra time and money to ensure that their precious memories are commited to a form that will last as long as possible on display. Pricey frames, mats, and glass are used to both protect the image as well as add to its beauty and display value. With all the energy and money that goes into preserving photos, it’s not at all surprising that more and more photographers and consumers are gravitating towards putting their photos on canvas.

Canvas prints have been proven by Wilhelm Imaging Research to last up to and over 100 years without signs up fading when displayed under “reasonable” conditions – basically anywhere that doesn’t have excessive humidity or UV rays. That’s 10 times longer than typical traditional photo prints. Many people accustomed to framing photos and shielding them behind glass have wondered if the same steps need to be taken to preserve canvas prints.

While it is completely possible and not unusual for canvas prints to be framed, it actually is not a necessity. In fact, part of the draw and novelty of printing photos on canvas is that a wrapped print is considered a completely finished product. Canvas prints from ZaZa Gallery can be taken from their packaging and hung directly on a nail – there’s no more to it than that.

When ordering a picture on canvas you’ll come across different wrapping styles and options that effect the way your canvas print looks. Gallery wrapped photos on canvas are the most common style, and the one acredited most often as being “finished”. With this style the edges of the photo print are wrapped around a ¾ – 1 ½ inch stretcher bar. With no additional frame, this gives the print an almost 3-D appearance. The edges of the stretched canvas actually become a part of the overall display look.

Gallery wrapped canvas prints are not always the best choice for every photo, however. You see, the image itself is used to wrap around those edges which can be as wide as 1.5 inches. So, thats a full 3 inches of the images width and height that are no longer displayed on the face of the image. For photos like portraits, or small prints that may only be 8×10 inches to begin with this can make up a considerable loss of front-facing photo. With portraits this often means that the subjects extremeties might become “cut off”, and that just doesn’t look good.

If you still want the uniqueness of a gallery wrap without the loss of precious image inches you can instead opt for a Mirror Wrap. ZaZa Gallery is the only leading canvas print producer that offers this option. With this, the photo editor actually takes the edges of your image and mirrors them. Then, “weird” looking extras like hands and fingers (sometimes even whole people) are edited out of the photo to make it look much more clean and nice. You get the look of a gallery wrap without your image being cropped. There is no additional fee for this service.

So, as you can see, a gallery or mirror wrapped photo on canvas from ZaZa Gallery really is a finished product, meant to be displayed “as is”. There is no need for a frame or glass because the wrap style itself is part of the beauty of the print. Black or White wrapped prints (sometimes referred to as “museum” wraps can also be displayed as finished products, and can give your print a very classy and clean look. These styles are also well suited to framing, if that is something you really would like to do. There is no harm or added difficulty in framing a canvas print – in fact it can make your print even more beautiful.

Just remember, most frames won’t accomidate a 1.5 inch stretcher bar (essentially the print is 1.5 inches “deep”) but the standard ¾ inch wrap works just fine. Whether you choose to frame or not to, canvas prints will still last years longer than photo print equivilents and have a unique and stunning appearance.

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Museum Quality Canvas Prints In Just a Few Easy Steps

Tuesday, November 10th
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Who doesn’t love to see those wonderful paintings hanging in a museum or art gallery? And, who hasn’t sat in front of one of these priceless works of art and had some feeling conveyed to them simply due to the way that the painting pops off the canvas? It seems that paintings that are done on canvas seem to pop right out at you, create unique feelings in you, and bring you deeper into the painting than just a flat photograph can. Everything in the painting suddenly comes alive and inspires you deep inside – just like a masterpiece should.

Paintings on canvases move people to do things, whether it’s feel a certain way or go out and start painting themselves. Is it because of the strokes that you can see? The colors that are rich and vibrant in a canvas painting after hundreds of years? Or maybe because of the texture of the canvas itself? It’s a mix of everything and it helps to create something truly unique that generations cherish.

Of course, with photography, it’s sometimes extremely hard to evoke these same feelings in someone. Paper is just flat, and even if it’s matted and framed beautifully, it’s hard to really be able to create a work that pops right out at someone. Until now.

Canvas prints allow any photograph to suddenly come alive in the way that an oil painting does. These prints allow a simple photograph to turn into a 3-D, textured work that seems to jump right off the canvas at you, and evoke special feelings every time you look at it. And, when you gallery wrap a canvas print, you create an even better feel of a museum painting right in your living room.

Gallery wrapping is when a canvas print is stretched enough that the sides of the photo are actually wrapped around the frame, allowing the picture to have a 3-D feel to it. It’s one of the most beautiful ways to have a canvas print stretched, and one that so many people choose. These types of canvas prints look great anywhere and with any type of photo, from vacations to weddings to abstract art.

And, they are extremely simple to have printed. Anyone can simply upload their photos to a canvas printer’s website and the printer does the rest. Once a photo is uploaded, the printer then has it edited to fit on the canvas, prints it with special archival inks, and then has it stretched onto the canvas. By choosing gallery wrapping, your photo will suddenly take on a life of it’s own, and will be delivered to you as a whole new way of seeing your favorite memory and photo.

Gallery wrapped photos are the perfect way to remember your wedding, your graduation, that island vacation, your children’s baby photos, and so much more. There are so many beautiful ways to take your favorite photos and turn them into canvas prints that will last for generations and offer something truly unique to be passed down to your children and grandchildren.

Let the professionals at ZaZa Gallery help you create a timeless masterpiece of your favorite family photos by gallery wrapping them onto a beautiful canvas print. We can help edit, sharpen, and create the perfect picture to be placed on canvas so that you will feel the same feelings that you did when the picture was taken every single time you see it.

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