how do I put my own photos onto canvas?

judethepude | 12:30 Sat 25th Jul 2009 | How it Works

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I have seen some blank canvasses for sale in Dunelm Mill (UK) and I have some fantastic photos that I would like to put onto them. How do I do this?

Thank you
Judith

Printing from Negatives

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ACtheTROLL

put the canvass on a table ...
go find the photo(s) - put them on the table .....
lift one of the photos up ...
move your arm towards the canvass ...
when your hand is over the canvass .... put the photo on to it ....

easy when you think about it? ... also works on other objects!!

ACtheTROLL

c'mon - more detail ... printer canvass? - how big - how big photo - do you have a scanner?/software/printer
what exactly

judethepude

Question Author

Well ACtheTROLL

If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be asking the question.

Thanks for nothing. You're an ignoramus.

Goodbye.

ACtheTROLL

sorry for failing basic mind reading

ask a stupid question - you get an idiot trying to answer despite knowing it's a stupid question.

look at the second post - consider the questions - not quite so silly
if you can't describe what you are holding ... or have in your house connected to a PC how can anyone advise?

weeal

pmsl @ ACtheTroll

Buenchico

Hi Jude:

Basically what you're planning to do simply isn't possible. The canvas prints you see offered (usually at horrendous prices) by High Street photo-processing shops are true photographic prints. They use a canvas which has been specially coated with the same sort of silver-based chemical that is used in the manufacture of the photographic paper that is used for making prints from negatives. That canvas is then used in exactly the same way that the photographic paper would be. (i.e. it's used in a darkroom, where a negative is projected onto the canvas and then processed with a succession of chemical solutions).

So, unless you've got access to a darkroom, an enlarger and all of the specialist chemicals, you can't make canvas prints with the canvasses from Dunelm Mill.

However all is not lost. There is a way of getting canvas prints from an inkjet printer. Please see my post here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Litera ture/Question697229.html

Chris

judethepude

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Thank you Buenchico. You were both polite and helpful.

Jude

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judethepude

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That looks interesting! It's amazing what you find out about when you simply ask. I now have some options I can investigate.

Thanks a lot.

ACtheTROLL

hey weeeal ... where you been?