| If you are interested in making canvas prints | | | | these prints will work well for you because they |
| from your photos, then you should consider using | | | | are usually on-demand. Even if you decide that |
| giclee prints. Loosely translated from French, the | | | | you want more than one copy, a digitally archived |
| word giclee means a spray or a spurt of liquid. | | | | image can be reproduced with minimum effort |
| These prints may connote such the elevation in | | | | and at reduced cost, this image does not |
| print making technology and canvas pictures | | | | deteriorate in quality as film, and negatives do |
| produced this way can be seen generated from | | | | with time. Mass production is very expensive |
| smart resolution digital scans of a still photo or | | | | because of the upfront costs. Another advantage |
| directly from a digital photo and printed as well | | | | of canvas prints over photos using this method is |
| with highest quality inks onto different mediums | | | | that digital images can be reproduced to any size |
| or substances. The most common of these | | | | that you may wish, your only restriction were |
| mediums, and what we will concentrate on here, | | | | cost and personal preferences. For those |
| is canvas, but the others are photo-based and | | | | interested in selling these canvas pictures for a |
| fine art paper. These prints are created typically | | | | profit, you can test market your art before |
| using professional 8-color to 12-color ink-jet | | | | committing to large production runs using this |
| printers today, but the process started a long | | | | method. |
| while ago in 1989 and various methods have been | | | | With this method, you do not need a set for |
| used on and off since then. One of the major | | | | color separation, which was very time consuming |
| advantages of making canvas prints over photos | | | | in other methods. Giclee prints also allow you to |
| using this method is that this process produces | | | | adjust color, contrast, brightness and color |
| better accuracy colors than any other tool of | | | | saturation and this ensures that the final product |
| reproduction and so they are of very high quality. | | | | is as good as the original image if not better. You |
| Another advantage of giclee prints is that the | | | | get the option of editing off such things as |
| technology has spread all over the world and the | | | | shadows, blemishes and bad lighting from the |
| major printing companies such as Epson, | | | | original photo and so the final product may |
| MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard | | | | actually end up being better than the original. |
| have created printing solutions just for these | | | | An important advantage of this method is the |
| prints and this has helped in reducing costs due to | | | | time taken to do the work. Since only printing is |
| the high competition. The companies doing this | | | | done, the time from submission of photo to |
| work are also many and this has also led to | | | | delivery at home can be as little as four days. |
| reduced costs. | | | | Another advantage is that this art form is starting |
| Another advantage of making canvas pictures | | | | to attract art investors and who knows – |
| using this method is that because you are not | | | | maybe your work will be a collector’s item |
| interested in mass production of your work, | | | | one day. |