Canvas Print From Photo -- How It Works, Part II

[danish james]

Partially I, we got your photo to the canvas printer and ready to print. Now, all of those other process.

The computer programs used to take your "original" photo to "ready to print" may be sophisticated. Your photo is assessed, enhanced, etc., in one program. The printing of the image is done in another, having a print template. Most canvas images are printed for a gallery wrap, which is wrapping the printed canvas around the extender bars to the back. This tends to make an elegant canvas and eliminates the requirement for a decorative frame but does not preclude one.

In the preparation phase, you will have found out if your photo image can be gallery draped or if a line needs to be added for the wrap. A word about edges. Canva Templates Since canvas does stretch, getting pluperfect positioning of the edges is almost impossible and there will inevitably be some bleed over to one or two sides, though great efforts will be built to keep such bleed negligible.

The canvas most used is a poly-cotton blend -- more resilient to time and stretches cleaner than 100% cotton canvas. Your image is printed on the canvas using an inkjet printer and the inks are typically rated to 100 years for color integrity. This means that with reasonable care of your canvas, it will be around for generations! Once dry, the canvas print is sprayed with a protectorate (against U/V rays). It's usually an aqueous coating, not oil-based, and can be painted on should you want to add oil or polymer-bonded paint to your finished canvas. The printed canvas should dry for a day and the coating needs anywhere from a period of time to a day (depends on the product).

The wood extender bars come in virtually every you can imagine length. However, most companies do just a specific set of sizes, staying with conventional. You usually have either thickness of the bars, the two most popular being ¾" and 1 ½". The difference is what steps unusual it sits. The 1 ½" does make a much elegant canvas. If you are going to add a decorative frame, the ¾" is recommended.

Extending is an art inside of it, being forced to keep the canvas even on all four sides but still accommodate the changes due to extending. And if the image has a colored line, the job just got tougher! The canvas must be very taut which takes precedence over everything. This is why the print template mentioned earlier is so important. The computer artist can see how the image will fit, can see the "face" of the canvas, and make adjustments before the canvas is actually printed. With bordered images, the frames may be assembled and measured (the bars are mass produced and are not perfect to measure! ) so the print template can be adjusted accordingly before printing. This does not necessarily eliminate a bleed over but helps to minimize it.