How to put photos on canvas?

Question

Hi all. I'd like to put a few of my pictures on large canvases for selling. Is this something I can do myself, if so, how? If not, who would I contact and how much would it be to have professionally done? Thanks.

Answer 1

you could go to a kodak store and get that done

Answer 2

You can do it yourself. I have a friend who does this for most of the photos he submits to galleries and art shows. You will have to do a little research on which printers will be able to print on the canvas though. They also wont be cheap. Cost will depend on the size you want to print. Most cheap printers will not be able to do it. Canvas is much thicker than normal photo paper.

Basically though you take the canvas and you coat it with a sizing material that stiffens it enough to go through the printer. It also prepares the surface to accept the ink.  Then you run it through the printer and stretch it onto a frame.

There are plenty of places that will do it for you but it is expensive. You are probably better off doing this yourself if you are going to do a large amount of them. Unlike photos on photo paper which is cheaper to have done.

Answer 3

colab do it... but its NOT actually canvas, its textured paper... looks great, but the dust collects in the weave...

Answer 4

If the canvas print size you wish to have is smaller than 30x30cm, you can buy canvas sheets (up to A3 format size) on-line and print on them using an ink-jet printer. You have to make sure that the seller says whether the canvas is cotton based or polyester based. This is because the more cotton the canvas contains the more natural the look of the resulting canvas print is.

There are some on-line stores that sell small stretcher bars so once you have the small print you can stretch it on the frame and fix it with staples.

However, if you want a larger canvas size from your photo there's a great site which allows you to order, customize and preview in 3D mode your canvas before you buy, the address is given in the answer's resource below.