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Here you will find loads of tips, techniques and advice on how to get the best out of your photography, our site and how to keep your canvas in tip top condition. Just pick the category from the list of options on the left and then click on the specific article on the right.

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Benefits of using Photo in Canvas
Photography Tips & Techniques
Camera Tricks & Tips
Canvas Ideas & Tips
Decorating Ideas & Tips
General Hints & Tips
Photo in Canvas Service

Canvas prints are a great way to display a great picture. Here at Photo In Canvas we pride ourselves on our personal customer service and high quality canvas product...

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Uploading Photo Tips

Images should be a minimum of 150ppi and in a JPG format. When scanning in photo's, please ensure the resolution is at least 300ppi...

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Is Your Photo Good Enough for a Photo Canvas?

Simply send it off to us for examination and we'll let you know, usually within 1 working day of receipt. You can send your photo by email, CD, or post...

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How to Scan in Your Photo

There are many different ways we can get your image on to canvas. You might make use of our simple upload system, taking a digital image from your computer...

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Choosing the right Photograph for your Photo in Canvas

To get the best from your photo canvas print you need to choose the highest quality photo options your camera can offer. Our artists check each image personally...

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Advantages and Benefits of Canvas Printing

The benefits of Canvas Printing are endless and the digital photography revolution means it has never been more simple to create a large format canvas from a digital photo...

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Photo Canvas

A photo canvas is a unique and interesting way to capture moments on film and enlarge them to wall size. They can be made in multiple sizes and with all...

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Photo Montages

If you have a great deal of old and new photos lying around, you may be looking for a better way for you and your friends and family to enjoy them. Most photos...

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Why Photo Canvas?

Generations of customers have ordered poster prints for their homes and offices. These prints then have to be framed at considerable expense on top...

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Holiday Photography Tips

On holiday it's all too tempting to try to cram everything you can see into a photograph, and create a cluttered image rather than a beautiful image...

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Night Photography Tips

Be sure to bring extra layers in the winter, and bug spray in the summer if you intend to be outside for a period of time. Be sure to bring a tripod and spirit level...

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Gardening Photography Tips

Each season brings about a complete change in gardens and landscapes up and down the country. Photographs shot from the same spot will look dramatically different...

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Wildlife Photography Tips

Look closely at the nature around you. We are surrounded by patterns, reflections, colour and unusual shapes all born from nature. There could be...

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Surf Photography Tips

Surf photography is not an easy task to undertake. The combination of dealing with the water, maintaining your balance and a steady hand, fluctuating light...

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Wedding Photography Tips

Wedding photography can be very stressful for the amateur photographer! Making sure to achieve the best possible results on the big day requires a fair amount of effort...

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Car Photography Tips

If you can't quite stretch to buying the car of your dreams you can always build a fine collection of auto-photos of many fine cars and bikes...

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Baby Photography Tips

Taking good photographs of your baby requires many things but above all patience! Your tiny subject is completely unaware of posing, lighting, shadow, glare or...

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Taking a Great Photo

Make sure you know all about your camera. Most of us use only a small number of the many functions our devices are equipped with, and you'd be surprised...

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Getting the most from your Image

Always use the highest resolution setting on your camera to achieve the best image to transpose your photos on canvas. It will use more memory but provide...

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Top Ten Canvas Gift Occasions

A photo canvas print is the perfect gift for every occasion. For a truly unique gift take a look at our bespoke canvas options, where you can transform your photograph...

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Top Five Photo in Canvas Subjects for Canvas Printing

Here at Photo In Canvas we see all kinds of photos coming through for canvas printing, family groups, friends, new babies, parties and celebrations, all sorts...

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Wall Art

If you want to make a statement and make dramatic changes to your home than cover your walls with wall art. Wall art is more than a painting or a...

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Your Photos on Canvas

Adding art to your home has never been so easy, be it a personalised wall hanging of your favourite photos or a piece from our artist's gallery collections, a new canvas print can...

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Canvas for Interior Design

The ambience of a room can be shaped by the colours and lines within it. A photo canvas print can be a very useful tool...

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Using Canvas Prints to Decorate Your Home

Many people love the way a very artistic painting on canvas can look in their home. The right piece of artwork can do wonders for a room's style and design. However, not very many...

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Abstract Prints on Canvas

Abstract prints on canvas are a wonderful way to decorate your home. You can also offer them as a gift to someone that is meaningful to your life. They provide a manner in which you can preserve memories...

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Maintaining Your Canvas

Direct sunlight is not good for your new photo canvas. Our ink jet system is able to delay the effect of strong sunlight on your canvas print but...

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Photo on Canvas Printing

When you want to create a photo on canvas the Giclee printing method works well. Giclee, a French word, uses a nozzle to spray on the canvas. The canvas has special ultraviolet light protectors...

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Photography Ideas

Want to create something professional looking? Bored with your standard colour photos? There's so much you can do to make your photographs stand out...

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Photographers

If you're looking to offer your customers a high quality way to display their favourite photographs, stand out from the crowd by offering photo canvas prints...

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Photographs converted into Canvas Prints

The road to where custom canvas photo prints became mainstream is a long and interesting one. Taking photos is a popular hobby and an interesting profession...

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The Task of a Photographer

From the outside, photography may look like an easy task to those who have not spent much time playing with it. Point and shoot, right? Wrong....

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Family and Group Photography Tips and Ideas

Preparation is always key in photography, especially when it comes to groups and parties who are sometimes hard to organise. Prepare your setting, be aware of your background...

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Avoiding Common Mistakes in Photography

Most people have spent time in the past sorting through and throwing away a quantity of blurry photographs. Fortunately these days we do not have to pay to get...

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Avoiding Common Mistakes in Photography part2

Red eye is an effect that only occurs in photography and does not occur naturally. Red eye shows up in photographs with low ambient light where a flash is used...

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Photographing Birds in Flight

Trying to get great pictures of birds in flight can be very challenging for the wildlife photographer. You will require a great deal of patience but the results can be...

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Repetition in Photography Tips

Repetition is a great way to create photographs, and there are patterns all around us we can use. Repetition and patterns in photograph create a sense of order and balance...

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How to Put Photos on Canvas at Home

Years ago it was quite a challenge to put photos on canvas at home but today with modern technologies improving printing processes, this had become a far easier format for photos...

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Photo Printing Canvas

In today's digital world printed photos are often a thing of the past. However, for those who want to display photos in their home a photo printing...

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Your Photo on Canvas

The hobby and profession of photography has come a long way since its early years. Between the amount of sheer variability and capacity in any...

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Fine Art Giclee Printing

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas," said Charles Dudley Warner. This quote is really meaningful, because it...

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Custom Canvas Photo Prints

The road to where custom canvas photo prints became mainstream is a long and interesting one. Taking photos is a popular hobby and an interesting profession...

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Giclee Prints

With giclee prints, artists have control of the production of their images, and many individual artists own and operate their own printers. They can reproduce...

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Photo Canvas Art

As years pass and our memories start to fade we choose to look back on life through photos. Taken to preserve the moment, we journey through the good times and the bad...

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Top 10 Photography Tips for Beginners

When it comes to Tips for Beginners, do not be afraid to make mistakes in your Photography. No matter what somebody's skill level may be, this is no guarantee that they are...

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