How to Create Canvas Prints

Printing photographs onto canvas as fine artwork is all the rage for home decor. Several companies will do this process for you, but if you have the correct supplies, you can make as many canvas prints as often as you want at a low cost, using your digital images and a sufficient printer with canvas material. You can do this to reproduce your personal photographs, your own artwork or for other fine artwork.

Instructions

1

Make sure your home printer is sufficient enough to print canvas. You can typically find this information in the instruction manual, but if your printer prints up to 13 by 19 inches wide, it should be able to print on canvas. Decide the size of your print. Ideally, your canvas print should be as large as possible. Good printers for making canvas prints include the HP Photosmart printers, which come with this feature already installed.

2

Decide what photo you wish to make into a canvas print. It can be a favorite vacation photo, a print of your artwork, or another artist's print to add to your home decor. First, you need to make it a digital file. If it is not already on your computer, scan it with a quality scanner (most printers you will use to make the canvas print should have scanners). High-quality photo software--such as Adobe Photoshop or Photofuse--will produce the most vibrant and clear print. Such software must come with functions such as cropping, balancing out color and saturation percentage, and resizing. When cropping and editing your photo, add a 1-inch border around it. For example, make the print 11 by 17 inches if your print is 13 by 19 inches. This will help make the print fully visible on the canvas.

3

Open the edited digital file of your print on the computer. Click "Print" on the image. The next page should bring up your printing options. Select the best printing quality option (usually shown on a bar that goes from 0 to 100%), and if there is a "canvas" printing option, choose that as well. Then choose the size of your print, which is the size you originally chose in the beginning.

4

Do a test print with regular paper before using the canvas, so you can make sure the measurements are correct and that the print comes out as expected.

5

Put on the gloves before handling the canvas paper to avoid getting fingerprints and oils on the canvas. Carefully place the canvas sheet into the same slot you would insert regular printer paper. Make sure the edges fit within it smoothly and evenly. Print your canvas picture. Allow the ink on your canvas print to dry completely before you touch it.

6

Need a larger canvas print then your printer can produce? Use a website like Kodak, Zazzle, ImageFly or Shutterfly. Shutterfly is an ideal Web site print orders because they routinely run special deals on canvas prints (See Resources). Larger canvas prints can be expensive to order, but not as expensive as purchasing a large set printer for your home.

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Printing photographs onto canvas as fine artwork is all the rage for home decor. Several companies will do this process for you, but if you have the correct supplies, you can make as many canvas prints as often as you want at a low cost, using your digital images and a sufficient printer with canvas material. You can do this to reproduce your personal photographs, your own artwork or for other fine artwork.

Instructions

1

Make sure your home printer is sufficient enough to print canvas. You can typically find this information in the instruction manual, but if your printer prints up to 13 by 19 inches wide, it should be able to print on canvas. Decide the size of your print. Ideally, your canvas print should be as large as possible. Good printers for making canvas prints include the HP Photosmart printers, which come with this feature already installed.

2

Decide what photo you wish to make into a canvas print. It can be a favorite vacation photo, a print of your artwork, or another artist's print to add to your home decor. First, you need to make it a digital file. If it is not already on your computer, scan it with a quality scanner (most printers you will use to make the canvas print should have scanners). High-quality photo software--such as Adobe Photoshop or Photofuse--will produce the most vibrant and clear print. Such software must come with functions such as cropping, balancing out color and saturation percentage, and resizing. When cropping and editing your photo, add a 1-inch border around it.

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. For example, make the print 11 by 17 inches if your print is 13 by 19 inches. This will help make the print fully visible on the canvas.
3

Open the edited digital file of your print on the computer. Click "Print" on the image. The next page should bring up your printing options. Select the best printing quality option (usually shown on a bar that goes from 0 to 100%), and if there is a "canvas" printing option, choose that as well. Then choose the size of your print, which is the size you originally chose in the beginning.

4

Do a test print with regular paper before using the canvas, so you can make sure the measurements are correct and that the print comes out as expected.

5

Put on the gloves before handling the canvas paper to avoid getting fingerprints and oils on the canvas. Carefully place the canvas sheet into the same slot you would insert regular printer paper. Make sure the edges fit within it smoothly and evenly. Print your canvas picture. Allow the ink on your canvas print to dry completely before you touch it.

6

Need a larger canvas print then your printer can produce? Use a website like Kodak, Zazzle, ImageFly or Shutterfly. Shutterfly is an ideal Web site print orders because they routinely run special deals on canvas prints (See Resources). Larger canvas prints can be expensive to order, but not as expensive as purchasing a large set printer for your home.

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