Canvas is Timeless

Our gallery wrapped photos on canvas start at just $25 for an 8X10, as you may have noticed this is a
tremendous value. Our standard canvases are stretched on 5-eighths stretcher bar. Our standard procedure is to a mirror your picture so that all of you image is preserved on the surface of the image. For more info on this procedure please click on mirror wrap
When uploading your images for canvas prints larger than 8×10 we recommend a minimum resolution and size of 300 resolution at 4×6 inches. For more information on resolution or if you need help resizing your image in photshop please click on resolution or resizing your image

Of course every canvas print starts with the finest canvas, with excellent white point so as to produce vibrant colors. Our canvas prints meet museum standards when it comes to being archival. The inks we use are also archival and finally, the sealer provides UV protection and water resistances. We appreciate that these represent your cherished memories, for this reason we use the finest materials so that they will be preserved for generations to come.

This is a family owned and operated business. In essence when you entrust us to produce your picture on canvas we see it through every step of the way all the way down to the last staple of which I personally handle. I have to say I love this business. If you ever have a question please feel to give us a call or shoot us an email.

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Get Your Photos On Canvas!

For anyone that loves their photos, no matter what form they are in, it’s only a matter of time before they start to have their favorites transferred over onto canvas. Canvas prints are a beautiful, unique, long lasting way to enjoy portraits, art photos, and much more. And, with canvas prints gaining popularity rapidly, there are so many people all over the world that are getting their favorite photos and art work turned into a beautiful canvas print. Yet many people have no idea just how their photos and art pieces suddenly become a wonderful canvas print.

Believe it or not, most canvas prints in today’s world begin as simple digital photos. These digital photos are normally even taken with just a regular digital camera, not always one of the very expensive professional cameras that are out on the market.

Don’t worry if your favorite photo isn’t a digital one, you can easily scan it into a high resolution photo, so that you can take one of your old favorites and turn it into a beautiful work of art on canvas. For anyone considering using a scanned photo to create a canvas print from, you want to make sure that you follow a few steps first. Of course, you want to make sure that the photo as well as the scanner glass is dirt and dust free, and that there is nothing else that might show up in the scan. Worry about getting everything off the glass and the photo, you can edit the digital image once it’s on the screen. Scan your image at a high PPI (or Pixels Per Inch), since the higher the resolution is, the better the results will be. Many canvas printers prefer that you have a 300 PPI for your photo, but check their requirements to see what they can accept just in case you cannot get it that high. With a 300 PPI, ZaZa Gallery can easily make any 4”X6” image appear crystal clear – even if you order a canvas print that is 24”X36”.

If you are using an image that is taken by a digital camera, you should try to make sure that your camera has at least 5 megapixels to ensure that you have a good clean image to use for your canvas print. This also follows the rule that scans do as well – the higher the megapixels on your camera, the better the image quality will be, and the better your canvas print will be. To ensure that your camera is shooting pictures at the highest resolution and you want to save them as a high quality JPEG or RAW file.

When you get your photo scanned in or uploaded to your computer, you can easily edit the photo to take out red eye, crop the image, and make any other edits that need to be made before the image is printed onto canvas. But making the changes that you want before you send it will help to ensure that you get the best canvas print.

Of course, ZaZa Gallery can do basic retouching on any photo that you would like turned into a canvas print to ensure that the color and sharpness of the photo is perfect for your print. There are also plenty of changes that can be made to any photo to ensure that you get a truly unique canvas print – from black and white to sepia tones to enhanced colors, ZaZa Gallery can help create the perfect canvas print that you will love for generations.

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Digital Photos on Canvas – What They Have to Offer

Ready to head out and get some digital photographs printed? You’re probably already going through what you want – such as glossy prints, doubles, 5×7’s, and so on. While there are so many different ways to develop pictures, let’s face it – they are all boring, and have been for several decades now. Ok, you might get creative and use those fun little scissors to cut the edges of your pictures with odd little edges for your scrapbooks, but that’s about it right?

Wrong. What if you could find a way to develop your favorite photos onto something that will last for decades, even generations? What if this way was something that uses a medium that’s been around for centuries and lasts so much longer than paper? What if it provided a way for you to enjoy an exquisite beauty in a photograph that you didn’t even know existed? Would you want to know what it was? Would you want to print your favorite photographs this way? Would you want to give them as gifts to those you love?

Sure you would! And it’s all reality with canvas prints of your favorite photographs. Believe it or not, canvas prints are not just for rich people any longer, they are actually extremely affordable and offer a wonderful and unique way to enjoy something that you can then hand down to your children and grandchildren. Canvas prints last four times longer than normal paper prints, offer a “painted” look to any photograph, and give you a way to display something in your home or office that will instantly draw someone into a conversation about them.

Just what makes canvas prints so different from normal paper photographs? There are actually several major things that go into the development process of canvas prints that make them a truly unique work of art. For instance, the inks that are used in canvas prints are archival inks and are placed onto the canvas from a special printer that is designed especially for that purpose. Once the ink has dried completely, the canvas print is then sprayed down with a special sealer. This sealer bonds that special archival ink to the canvas and makes it almost invulnerable to dust, dirt, grime, water, light, and any other environmental problems that may come it’s way. When the ink and sealer are completely dried and ready, the canvas is then stretched by hand around a canvas stretcher bar to the desired size.

To create that perfect photograph that will go onto a canvas print, you will find that photographers are more than willing to take extra photos so that you can find the best possible one to go on your canvas print. While some photos will look beyond beautiful on a canvas, others are not as well suited, so trust the professionals! But, photos can be edited or modified in several different ways before they are put onto a canvas. Some examples of how they can be changed include: taking out red eye, changed to black and white, cropped, enhanced, enlarged, better contrast, and so much more. A trained photographer will know exactly what to do to create that beautiful picture that will go perfectly on a canvas print.

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Photoshop Resolution PPI and DPI

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Understanding Photoshop Resolution PPI and DPI

For those of you who are uploading images to Picture Photos on Canvas or ZaZa Gallery to have them printed on canvas for 16 x 20 and 20 x 30 gallery wrapped canvas prints we like to see that your image has a minimum resolution of 300 at 4 x 6” inches. If you have any concerns or questions about the images that you are uploading to be printed so free to give us a call at any time at 707 – 364 – 0770.
We can work with images that have a lower resolution than this however before we
print these and all prints for that matter we make sure that the image quality meets a high standard and if we feel that it is not sharp in that you would otherwise not be happy with the final output in these cases it is our policy to contact our clients to talk about possible solutions before any prints are made. It is noteworthy that over 90% of the images that are sent to us by our customers have the image quality to make gallery wrapped canvas prints that they are satisfied with. The following information goes into a general explanation of image resolution as it pertains to printing.

You right-click on your image in Photoshop and you select image size then you see a dialog box that looks like this.

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because it’s practical and because it is highly relative to the capacity of your image to look good when printed on media I have circled resolution in red. What is meant by resolution? Resolution in this instance might just as well have been replaced with PPI or pixels per inch. Really that is what this instance of resolution is referring to. That’s right, how many pixels there are in an inch. We can see the truthfulness of this statement if we look to the right where we see pixel/inch. A resolution of 300 pixels per inch is the standard for quality image output. If there are not enough pixels per inch in your image when you have a print made, your image will appear pixilated and you will be able to see individual pixels in your print. If you are going to be uploading your image to the web 72 PPI is all that is needed, as this is all that monitors can display.

The following is a comparison of a image with 300 resolution versus an image with a resolution of 72.If you have an image that has a resolution of 300 and is 3 inches wide by 3 inches high in pixel terms you would have an image that is 900 pixels wide by 900 pixels high. Your image would have a total of 810,000 pixels. If you have an image that was 3 inches wide by 3 inches high with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch. You would have an image to have a width of 216 pixels in height of 216 pixels. This image would have a total of 46,656 pixels.

The expression dpi refers to dots per inch. This expression relates strictly to print. DPI as it relates to PPI should be understood in this way. It often takes many more dots per inch and eight print to accurately reproduce the colors of pixels per inch. there is an excellent explanation of this on Wikipedia at the following link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch

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Giclee Printing: How Artist Digitize Art for Reproduction

Oil painters, water color painters and those of us who do not have a digital copy but rather a hard copy of our image that we want to have reproduced as a canvas print, must give special attention to the way we digitize our image.

Many of my clients have started by sending me a digital copy of their image that they scanned on their mediocre scanner or maybe they took a picture of it with their point and shout. They tell me they want an 8×10 of it or a 16×20 and are content with the image quality, so I print it for them and they sell it. Then they call me back and tell me they want a 36×48 of it. It might of looked decent in the sixteen by twenty however their is a threshold in the print making world as artists that we should consider and maybe we are not even aware of it.

Lets give a scenario. A master oil painter paints a beautiful oil painting. Now he takes a picture of it with his moms new 5 mega pixel camera and has 50 limited edition 36×48 giclee prints made of it, and they all look ok. Why?

Here are some possible reasons. The lighting was not so good so the texture from the oil painting casting shadows that where picked up by the camera. The lens on the camera was a wide angle and it distorted the image on the end and because the resolving limitations of the camera the canvas prints had a tremendous amount of grain. While he may have been able to get a decent marketable print out of an 8×10 or 16×20 with price points under $150, this is an altogether different scene; the larger prints show the flaws of the equipment he used to digitize them. He is hard pressed to get the $400 to $800 he wanted for them and is embarrassed to even show them.

The cost of digitizing images with the right equipment is an investment per image.

With this in mind it is important to consider the market you are selling your art to and how large the image is going to be reproduced. Other considerations are how large is the hard copy that I am trying to reproduce and is it for personal use and not commercial.

Smaller hard copies that are photographs or water colors or otherwise flat in nature can be scanned on fine art scanners with resolving power.

One inexpensive way to digitize art that I have seen employed with success as a starting point, even with larger print making is with the use a of a 5d 12 mega pixel Canon digital camera, and a macro lens or prime 50 ml. Controlled lighting is also recommended. Multiple light sources can also be employed to fill shadows.This can sometimes be done by a friend or local photographer.

If you are looking for the next  level in digitizing your images the equipment that is used should be a Better Light Scan Back in connection with continues lighting. The equipment this companies makes is so good I have only ever seen one other equipment company rival them (Cruise Scanners) The one we employ is a 144 megapixel Model 6000-HS. In connection with this we use a continuous light source, utilizing daylight balanced UV filtered CMD lighting (polarized when needed)  A good friend once told me “Garbage In Garbage Out. Quality in Quality Out.”  Your reproductions can only look as good as the digital representation of the original.

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Picture Photos on Canvas: Using a Mirror Wrap.

Picture Photos on Canvas: Using a Mirror Wrap.
Often times I will get a phone call from a customer and they will ask me if their image will be clipped when we wrap it. I have come to understand that most of the canvas printing companies out there need a one to two and a half inch margin of the customers image in order to wrap it around the side and finally to the back of the stretcher bar where it is stapled. Often times this will result in some ones arm getting clipped out of the picture or some ones foot or hand or some other feature that is important to the customer.

Our standard is to mirror the out side edge so there is no clipping of the image. If you do not want a mirrored image we are happy to accommodate you Just let us know otherwise in the notes section of your order or call us.One of the reasons why canvas printing companies do not offer this feature as their standard is because the editing for this is more time consuming. Below in the first image you will see a mirrored un-stretched canvas in the second image you will see stretched and finished.

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I would like to note that our example images above are for an 8×10 inch Gallery Wrapped canvas. In the first examples above we shows how we mirror the image so that no clipping occurs when we stretch the canvas. In the second image on the right hand side of the image you can see how the canvas wraps around the side nicely.

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