Photos Come to Life

By Lesley Aweau

All of your family heritage photographs that are in black in white, whether from the mid twentieth or nineteenth century, can be restored and transformed into beautiful modern photographs. If you would like them to be transformed the process is quite easy.

It may seem old school but the new way to restore old photographs is to create canvas prints. Canvas printing takes your image, turns it into an oil-like painting, and prints it onto a hard and sturdy canvas.

Canvas is most commonly found used as painting surfaces, where it is typically stretched, as well as fashionable handbags and shoes. Because of its heavy duty nature and the fact that it is tightly woven, canvas is used as sails for ships, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other things that require sturdiness. This allows canvas prints to last more than ten times as long as the average photo.

Today, canvas is generally made up of cotton, as opposed to yesteryear when it was made of linen. The reason that linen was used for canvas is because it was very easy to paint on without any rough surfaces on the canvas, and it was of considerable strength as well.

Linen is also a material that professional oil paint artists love to use because of its high quality and smooth surface. Today, as mentioned earlier, most professional artists use cotton duck because it offers a more economic alternative to linen. In addition, it stretches more completely and has an even, mechanical weave.

One of the most famous surviving canvas paintings is the French Madonna with angels, which was painted around 1410 and is located in Berlin. If you would like your pictures to last for more than six hundred years, it is absolutely necessary to print them on canvas.

For the thousands of professional photographers in the industry looking for the next step in enhancing their artwork now they can with the world of Gicle. This is a process of digital inkjet printing with which photographers, for over a decade, have had the option of printing their photographs onto canvas. In the past, however, most canvases were printed with dye inks that were far from ideal for this type of work.

With the continuous advances in Gicle with regards to archival inks, canvas printing is widely spread around the globe and is one of the most used forms of art reproduction. Putting your pictures on canvas is a sure path to beautiful photos. - 30452

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