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I would like to know if this is possible. I have an oil painting on canvas. My Great Grandmother painted the piece. I have a family member that loves the piece and I do not want to give it up. She is getting married and would like to have a copy of it made on canvas. I know they do photo, but not sure about the painted canvas. Can anyone point me in the write direction. Many Thanks. :)
 
Anyone that prints on canvas can do that for you. The trick is getting a good scan or non-distorted digital image of the piece to work from. Are you a retail framer? If so check with Digital Custom / Image Edit they can do it for you and walk you through the scanning. If not check with your local frame shop and ask about digital printing.
 
It's going to be easier or harder to get a good scan/photo according to how the painting was executed and whether or not it has a thick coat of glossy varnish. Thick impasto on oils makes the process tricky as it has a 3D element. Lighting is all important. One that is painted 'flat' and unvarnished should present few problems and in the hands of a good printer, be virtually indistinquishable from the original.
It might be a good idea to get the painting cleaned before attempting a repro.:)
 
Aww, that's really nice that family members are interested in having Grannie's artwork.

Your profile doesn't say where you are located. If you're in Puget Sound area, I can refer you to someone who has gone pro with his own father's 1950s paintings, now transferred to giclee on canvas and available for sale in my shop. If not, well, you could start with your own digital camera and see how well the pictures come out, then have the image printed on canvas just about anywhere. I know my guy has to do a fair amount of adjustment in PhotoShop before they look perfect.
 
Hi- Simply Canvas has printed for me and does a great job. WHCC (White House Custom) has printed on canvas for me and does great as well, but I think more pricey than Simply Canvas. Canvas paintings of any kind are difficult to have reprinted. Either a good scan or excellent photograph of the painting is required. This has to then be downloaded onto your computer then sent to whomever you select to print. Each printer has their own specifications and rules for printing. Most must do a printer colour profile for which they charge plus the cost of printing. Now, just having a photograph printed on canvas is much easier. I normally am very selective when making copies of my origionals on canvas, meaning , no copies unless I know I have sales for them. Hope I have helped.
 
smalltown, it might help if people knew at least what region of
the country you're in. This is all really good input. If you can get a
good scan, it's best if the person doing it is also able to do color
corrections to get the print just right. It's important to have it printed
on good quality material with good inks. A good one will stretch well,
without having paint crack off at the edges, and will stay stretched
without continuing to relax once it's on the stretcher frame.

What size is your painting?
 
Copy of canvas on canvas

small town framers said:
I would like to know if this is possible. I have an oil painting on canvas. My Great GrandmoIher painted the piece. I have a family member that loves the piece and I do not want to give it up. She is getting married and would like to have a copy of it made on canvas. I know they do photo, but not sure about the painted canvas. Can anyone point me in the write direction. Many Thanks. :)
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Hi Small Town Framers,

I work with many artists from two local art guilds in Las Vegas, and provide a service for reproducing originals on canvas. In addtion to having frame shop & gallery, I am also a photographer. So, color balance is very critical when making reproductions. Contact me offline and I will be glad to give you a quote. I ship anywhere in the US and guarantee my work.

Ernesto
echavez@embarqmail.com
 
Ernesto, my printer friend does something cool with photos that people
are wanting to gallery wrap. Usually the photographers themselves, and
he does this with photos they don't want to lose any of. He mirrors out
about an inch and a half of the image, so that it wraps around the side
and looks like more photo, but all of the original photo is still on the front.
You might already do this, or something about this idea might make you
squinch up your face and cringe. Either way, I'll post it for general knowledge.
It looks pretty good when wrapped, and no one notices where the mirrored
images meet, because it's right on that edge. LOL.... I suppose you wouldn't
want to do it with a person at the edge, though. No one wants to see Aunt Betty
with two heads. :)
 
Shayla, Photoshop CS4 actually has a feature that allows you to make just what you describe and they call it the gallery wrap action.
 
Mirroring and alien beings ...

shayla said:
Ernesto, my printer friend does something cool with photos that people
are wanting to gallery wrap. Usually the photographers themselves, and
he does this with photos they don't want to lose any of. He mirrors out
about an inch and a half of the image, so that it wraps around the side
and looks like more photo, but all of the original photo is still on the front.
You might already do this, or something about this idea might make you
squinch up your face and cringe. Either way, I'll post it for general knowledge.
It looks pretty good when wrapped, and no one notices where the mirrored
images meet, because it's right on that edge. LOL.... I suppose you wouldn't
want to do it with a person at the edge, though. No one wants to see Aunt Betty
with two heads. :)
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Shayla,

I've been using that method for several years and Framah now says CS4 has an action to this automatically - thats cool. I tell artists not to paint detail to the edge of the canvas, and to keep their signature from being too close to the edge for that same issue. I like this technique and it looks better than painted edges. Thanks for bringing this up.

On another side note, if you use the 'mirroring' technique, sometimes you can create unusual patterns which often morph into something that resembles alien beings from planet X - ever see that?

Ernesto
 
Gah! Sorry my posts look so wierd now, everyone. I still haven't figured out how to make them look normal like everyone else's. Mostly, I have. But sometimes I come back later and they are all spaced out like that. I'm so not
a computer person.

I just called my friend and asked him about what he does. He said that it is that CS4 program. I wrote as quickly as I could, and am surely leaving stuff out, but here's what I got down. He said that it has places where you can select for width and size. He chooses the size he wants based on how deep the stretcher bars are. He said you can hold the mouse and drag it up to the corner and it snaps it to the right size. He said he does the horizontal reflection first, and then the vertical one. This is because, when you do the second reflection, it includes that mirrored bit from the sides and it shows. It's better to have this double reflection part on the bottom and top, where it's less likely to be seen. Plus, when the corners are wrapped, it helps to obscure it even more.

Ernesto, I haven't seen it played around with for making images such as you described, but I can imagine it. That could be fun.

I have another friend who plays around with the spherizing option in Photoshop. He takes photos of flowers, leaves and buildings and then uses
this feature on them. He's shown me the whole process, but I'm not able to hold a visual memory in my head that well, so can't recall it. But I do know that he does it once, then does it again. It takes regular picture and makes it look something like an artglass sphere, with the image all distorted and curved out. Some of them look really great, and he has a lot of fun with it.
 
Shayla. There is a gizmo called the 'clone' tool in Photshop (and other garphics progs). You basically click on a spot to form the source reference and then when you draw, it's uses whatever is under the source point. It's mainly used for removing unwanted parts (or people you don't like) by covering them with a bit of adjacent texture. But you can use it to extend images sideways/up/down, whatever you want. Or you could throw a selection area (the marching ants) around the edge, save it in a seperate image and then paste it back onto the edges of the original image as a seperate layer. If you mirror the image before pasting it back it should blend exactly.

Difficult to explain.... Hope some of that makes sense.:nuts:
 
There ya go. One Gingerbread House wrap.;)

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