Stop Those Favorite Photos From Fading By Placing Them On Canvas

For anyone that has had, or developed themselves, family photos over the years, you know that some of your older photos are already showing signs of fading and losing that beautiful color and shine that they held. It’s not your fault, not the way you stored them, displayed them – it’s actually the paper and inks that they were printed with. Most of the photo paper and chemicals that are used to print photographs don’t react very well to the environment, such as light, air, and humidity. They will start losing their colors and showing signs of wear long before they should, even if they are framed and stored properly. Believe it or not, but the average live of a photograph before it starts to show wear and fading is only seven years. After twenty years, many photographs are completely faded.

Is there anything that you can do to save those favorite family photos that you have kept under lock and key? Actually, there is – canvas prints.

Canvas prints are a wonderful new way that the photographic world has developed so that those beautiful photos won’t fade for many decades to come. The great technological advances that have made canvas printing affordable and practical offer a wonderful way to enjoy all of those beautiful photos that you cherish and love – and you can display them for everyone to enjoy for years to come. Here’s the best part: canvas prints won’t start to fade for almost a hundred years.

When you think back on all of those past civilizations whose art, history, and other evidence of their writings is still around today, what mediums are they done on? Either stone or canvas. Ok, so stone isn’t really a practical way to go in today’s world, canvas is. Canvas prints can actually easily be ordered online by simply uploading a digital or printed photo and sending it to a printer through their website.

Many people think that photos printed on canvas won’t last as long as real paintings on canvas. This actually isn’t true. With the current technology, the specialized inks that canvas printers use, and the special treatments of the canvas and inks, canvas prints last for well over a hundred years before even the first signs of wear and fading will even begin to show. It’s easy to keep those beautiful, vibrant colors and photos hanging around without worrying how they will look in a year or so.

Several companies out there have done research into the lifespan of canvas prints. Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. is one of these companies that has done some major research into canvas prints and how humidity and environmental concerns affect these prints. They found that with a 60% humidity level, a canvas print will last between 60-148 years before they start to fade.

So, how do you tell if a canvas print will last that long where you live? Well, let’s take a look at the areas of the US where the humidity is the highest, in Alaska. The top ten areas in the United States that hold the highest humidity levels are all here, holding between a 70-80% humidity rate. These areas hold some of the most extreme environments that you can hang canvas prints in. You also have to realize that the amount of sunlight that will land on a canvas print will also affect it, and the sunlight here in Alaska offers such high amounts that it’s easy to see where this area could see some major fading in canvas right? Actually, even here, canvas prints that are just hung normally will last over 70 years before they show fading and wear.

That’s good news for the rest of us, since the average humidity rating in the United States is only about 30%. So, if you live in any area of the US, you can easily see that your canvas print will last for many decades before any wear and tear starts to show at all. Plus, when you consider that canvas prints start around $25, you can easily keep some of your very favorite photos alive and well for generations.

ZaZa Gallery is one of the top producers of museum quality canvas prints. Our fine art canvas prints are all gallery wrapped with only the finest inks and canvas that will produce beautiful museum grade pieces for you to enjoy. Check out our wonder selection of print sizes, shapes, and all of the wonderful things that we can do to help you keep those beautiful prints alive and well for a long, long time.