 Scott Barker |
Printing on Canvas...aka...best results? I am wanting to know the best process as far as resizing, dpi, etc, for printing on a 20x24 gallery wrap from MPIX. I have never printed on canvas before, and as it is an expensive print I don't want to have to reprint it due to an error I made. Thanks
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W. |
The most important consideration with canvas prints is WHAT you print on it, Scott. Because some people print 'watercolor' type images, or straight photos, on canvas. Which looks perfectly ridiculous, absurd even, because IRL watercolor paintings or photos are painted/printed on smooth PAPER, never on rough, textured canvas. Rough, textured canvas is the substrate for OIL (and acrylic) paintings! Watercolors CANNOT be painted on canvas IRL. That is physically impossible. I.o.w. canvas is the patently WRONG medium for an image if you want it to look like a watercolor type painting. Or if you want it to look like a straight photo, for that matter. So consider your canvas print(s) carefully, unless you want it/them – and you! – to be ridiculed behind your back. Have fun!
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
I recently converted a photo of a friend to a painting (using Corel Painter) and sized it to 11 x 14 and had it printed on canvas at a local print shop using the highest res tiff file (I cant remember what size but I am guessing it was 30MB or higher). With the paint strokes using an impasto brush in Corel Painter, the canvas print looked awesome. Carlton
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