photo to canvas

[shelby45]

How can I put my photos onto canvas?? I have got some transfer paper but it's really for cotton/polycotton fabrics etc., Is there another sort of paper/canvas?

[Davethedog]

shelby - I always wanted to do that. I have found a few things but the gaps in my knowledge are huge. I asked a similar question but never got a reply.

This is the v small sum of what I know.

You can print directly onto canvas using a special printer Google Epson 9800, if you buy one of these hugely expensive machines you can then buy rolls of canvas and print onto it like you would paper.

I would dearly like to do this but space and expense would prevent it also you have to get it onto a frame which is a skill in itself.

It may be done easier but I cannot find where

[saxy_jag]

Have you tried the transfer paper on fine grade canvas? I think without a special printer, it's the best you're going to get.

The only way, as far as I can see, is to use something like Photoshop to create a canvas effect, which will look the part but won't feel it, of course.

[Nosha123]

I would use one of those companies that specialises in printing them for you.. you wont be happy with the result otherwise..... Try any local printers you know in your area - a digital printer may have just the type of kit you need!

[Buenchico]

The canvas prints which professional photo studios (as well as some High Street photo processing shops) provide, at horrendous prices, are made using canvas which has been coated with a light-sensitive layer and then exposed in a darkroom. (i.e. they're 'proper' photographs, like the type you get from a film camera, rather than digital ones).

You can't match that quality using an inkjet printer. However you can get reasonably close to it. You need to print directly onto canvas, rather than using a transfer method.

The special type of canvas you require is made by Daler-Rowney, who manufacture art materials (such as oil paints). For that reason, you're far more likely to find it in a specialist art shop, rather than in a stationer's or computer shop. Alternatively, you can buy it online:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte m&item=250316966676&cguid=1586ea3911f0a0aad372 6542ffd2c022

Chris

[shelby45]

Thanks chris, have ordered the A4 canvas paper and cant wait to get started!!!

[ehtobel2]

I would use a photographic lab, like e.g. http://fotoinsight.co...as-canvas-prints.html . Photo labs tend to know best on how to print photographs.