Picture Framing – Know your Canvas Wraps

Do you want to immortalize a moment? It could be your wedding day, your child's first steps or that great trip to South America. Whatever it is, picture framing can help you store these moments for as long as you live. Canvas pictures are quickly becoming one of the most fashionable ways of displaying pictures.

If you like paintings and would like to have something similar, but would prefer to have a photo instead, there is good news for you. Once reserved for paintings only, canvas is now used for photos also, thanks to modern technology. You can have your photos printed on canvas and wrapped around the frame just like those paintings you often see in museums. This canvas pictures are known as canvas wraps.

There are various options for canvas pictures. Selecting the option you want for picture framing using canvas will depend on the effects you want the pictures to portray. Regular canvas wraps use a regular color photo. This photo is printed onto the canvas and wrapped around the frame of the canvas. This is one of the most common options for canvas pictures.

If you want to achieve a more elegant look, you can opt for the black and white canvas pictures. These canvas wraps are made from black and white photos printed onto canvas and wrapped around the canvas frames. The photo may be taken as a colored photo and converted into black and white before printing.
Several other effects are available for picture framing using canvas wraps. You can create a sepia canvas wrap. This gives the photo a classic look. The photo looks like it was taken in the olden days using the old cameras. You can also combine different effects such as black and white with color. These canvas pictures may have colored backgrounds and a black and white foreground or vice versa.

If you do not have digital photos but still want to mount old photos onto canvas wraps, don't give up. It is possible to have your old photos as canvas pictures. Your photos will simply be scanned and printed onto the canvas and wrapped around the frames. You can also choose the type of wrap you want for the photos.

For a more dramatic effect you can choose a multi panel canvas wrap. This prints several canvas pictures for one photo. You can also have a panoramic canvas wrap that presents your pictures in a long horizontal canvas frame.

SnapArtwork.com prints your digital picture framing and frames them in one of our many hip and stylish photo frames. Simple image upload, apply many special effects, frames for photos, framed art for life. You take the photo and we do the printing and photo framing.