When selecting your favourite photo have you ever thought that its subject is either too far in the distance or the wrong proportions for your chosen shape of canvas? Well, CanvasRus now has a free and easy to use Edit Crop facility as part of their ordering process. This shows your uploaded photo on screen so that you can crop it to create your perfect canvas print.

Edit Crop is a tool available on the canvasRus purchasing page. When clicked on your photograph appears on screen with movable crop lines. These lines are there to clearly define your chosen area of photo that you wish to be printed. It also cleverly replicates your chosen canvas proportions whether square or rectangular.

Tips & Ideas:
1. Simple photos are usually the best but a fussy background can be distracting. Try rotating the crop marks from portrait to landscape and see if this helps focus the subject.
2. You can keep the depth of a landscape photograph by including foreground objects and using them as a frame – for example trees, water or even architecture.
3. If you want to create a stronger impact with a portrait photo - try zooming in. Please be aware that the quality of the printed photo canvas will decrease the smaller your cropped area becomes. Our designers will advise you if the quality decreases too far.
4. If you want to create some added interest to a portrait photo try copping it off-centre. Then if the background content becomes distracting try clicking back a few pages and putting your photo into either sepia or black and white.

Note: you don’t have to worry about cropping out date stamps or red-eye removal as the team of in-house designers can amend these for free.

Edit Crop is an exciting new facility available as part of the Canvas Prints ordering process. It gives you the opportunity to upload your favourite photo and reprioritise its focal point and impact.

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Transform your happy memories from favourite photo into canvas print. Hanging one of these beautiful canvases in your home not only creates an interesting talking point when friends and family visit but it can also make a great keepsake for years to come.

Whether you’re looking for artwork to decorate your hallway, home office, living room or bedroom CanvasRus has the solution. Click on Canvas Prints to transform your treasured personal photos to canvas adding that stylish touch to any room’s décor.

Have you thought about your friends and family’s favourite photos? Ordering a surprise photo canvas as a birthday, wedding or maybe even Christmas present can be a great way to put a smile on your recipient’s face. There are also Gift Vouchers starting from £20 if you’re not sure which photo they’d like.

Most of us have hundreds of digital photos saved on computer that never see the light of day. These could be from celebrations, holidays, birthdays or just spontaneous activities caught on camera. Remember, the Canvas Prints service isn’t just about putting your photo onto canvas it’s so much more than that. CanvasRus offers you a simple ordering process with a great range of free options. Once your photo is uploaded you can click through visual examples of your own photo canvas in a range of fun graphic effects and five different colour changes - how about black and white or maybe a sepia photo on canvas? Also free is the red eye and date stamp removal.

So whether you have a collection of fantastic family photographs or you simply aspire to decorate like the magazines Living etc or BBC Good Homes upload your pics to CanvasRus who reassuringly will make the very best of your special photos.

It’s not all doom and gloom in today’s business world. CanvasRus’ trusted products and services are still going strong. And with high volumes of printing, around 250 to 300 canvases a day, these growing numbers of production mean savings that can be passed onto customers.

Putting your personal treasured photos onto canvas is now so reassuringly affordable there’s no reason why not to. Just as a couple of examples the 16x12” canvas has dropped from £45 to £25 and the 36x36” canvas has dropped from £125 to £90.
Photo print canvases are ideal for almost any home décor. They also make perfect birthday or wedding presents. They’re not only a thoughtful gift but a great way to put a smile on the recipient’s face.

Most of us have hundreds of digital photos of friends and family on computer that rarely see the light of day. Photos to canvas is simple and now even more affordable. Just click on Canvas Prints if you’d like to see more information.

CanvasRus has always worked hard to supply the very best quality artwork whether it’s to a budding interior designer, Wembley stadium, a working Mum or a TV show. Feel free to read some of our customer comments on our Feedback page.

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This last year has been an exciting one for TV appearances. Just a few shows you may have seen us in or some to watch out for!

We’ve supplied canvas prints to six different shows ranging from the BBC’s Prodigy through to the forth series of Hotel Inspector on Channel FIVE starting in a couple of weeks. We’re also proud of the fact that this is the fifth consecutive year we’ve helped ITV’s 60 Minute Makeover team. Series five had such enviable audience figures it has lead to a staggering 80 makeovers which are planned to be aired this winter.

Kyle’s Academy was a ten part series on ITV which gave five members of the public, who all lived in one house over two weeks, expert advice to resolve their personal problems. The house was decorated with 17 of our canvas pictures that were later raffled off by ITV for charity.

August of last year saw CanvasRus supply a range of canvas artwork, from their Scapes Gallery, to the show Living with Kimberly Stewart. This highly entertaining ten part series followed Kimberly’s move from LA to London and her search for two ideal flat mates.

CanvasRus were approached by Living TV for the second year running to supply prints on canvas to Britain’s Next Top Model. This year's glamorous and aspirational series 4 has successfully been screened in parts of the US and Australia too. Perfect timing as the CanvasRus.com.au (Oz) and CanvasRus.com (US) websites had both launched in 2007.

The CanvasRus team is delighted to have been awarded the full 5 star rating by The Good Web Guide. Since CanvasRus, the online art gallery, started up five years ago the team have worked tirelessly to create the optimum online shopping service.

“We've always encouraged customer feedback about our website, the service offered and especially our canvas prints. We're proud of our 99.5% customer satisfaction level” Richard Lewis MD. Feel free to read some of the customers comments yourself.

The Good Web Guide is an independent company offering consumers helpful and constructive information about "what's best about life online." Their specific review standards are measured through a wide range of criteria. These cover the site's ease of usability and clear visual communication through to the website's effectiveness (including contact telephone numbers as well as email).

Click on The Good Web Guide to read their comments.

Overcast and threatening to rain I arrive in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, to meet the crew and see the show being made. It’s 2 pm and the 60mm team are taking a well deserved lunch break before launching into their second half hour. The four large canvas prints being used for this episode are still in the back of the removal’s van.

Pleased with how the first half has gone some of the crew happily chat about the makeover’s progress. Without giving too much away I watch as the team organise the last of the wallpaper and pieces of furniture outside ready for the second half. What appears to be a very relaxed atmosphere, with Terri Dwyer’s 2 year old son Cadon entertaining the crew, is actually highly organised and efficient.

2.30pm and the call goes out to gather the makeover team together. Within 5 minutes they’re all at the bottom of the removal’s van ramp being given their chat through from Sophie Robinson, this makeover’s designer, about plans for the second half. Two minutes earlier she was seen applying her lipstick in the wing mirror of the show’s camper van….oh, the glamour of TV!

Cigarettes and water bottles removed from view - the filming starts. Within two takes, and much hilarity, the team of black t-shirts and white dungarees are raring to get into the house. The stop watch is started. The two daughters, who approached ITV for the 60mm, are busily swept into the house with all of the excitement but in actual fact looked incredibly nervous.

Standing outside there’s a subtle backdrop of accompanying rock music from the team’s catering van up the road. The production coordinator standing next to me shouts the time check “24 minutes” through the intercom system to the ear pieces of the team. Shouts and woops of excitement come through the open windows of the house as the team chivvy themselves on.

Twelve minutes left to go and finally the canvases - Breakers, Pebbles and Daisy Field get taken into the house. Sophie Robinson had chosen all four images about two weeks earlier from the online galleries. No-one other than the team is allowed into the house now so I have no idea which rooms the canvases are being hung. A few minutes later the Red Sea canvas is unwrapped and taken in.

With five minutes to go everything seems calm with the last of the furniture, plants and flower arrangements going in. “One minute to go” is called out to the team in the house and the shouts start up again. Outside there’s frantic chasing for two dining chairs and odd accessories as I keep well out of the way. Then the count down in seconds starts. All the team join in as they chant from 10, 9, 8, 7….. then the whistle blows and that’s it. Slowly and wearily the team pour out of the house, well, they have been on location since 7.30am.

Now the camera crew have an empty house in which to set their lighting equipment up before the big surprise. During this time Terri stands on the drive interviewing the two girls about their reason for the asking the 60mm team to transform their Dad’s home. A shout goes out as the Dad’s car is spotted driving down the road towards them. The body language of the girls and the colour that has drained from their faces says it all really. The Dad really has no clue about this makeover.

The rest can be seen on ITV this winter. Just keep an eye out for the Hurstpierpoint makeover and the four large canvas pictures.

Surely not chocolates again?! Alternatively why not choose something a little out-of-the-ordinary - a treasured photo onto canvas.

A piece of canvas wall art given as a gift is a guaranteed recipe for success whether holiday snap, fun family photo or precious memory. Simply add your treasured photo with a touch of sentiment, a pinch of thoughtfulness with a large spoonful of originality all resulting in years of enjoyment.....and no calories!

The simplicity of a cherished photo accurately recreated into a digital canvas print.....what could be better? Well, that would be the price. Photos onto canvas start from £20 for 12x12” (30x30cm).

All you have to do is click on 'canvasRus' in the menu above and let the START button navigate you to the simple four step ordering process.

Enjoy giving this Easter with CanvasRus.co.uk

Following last years job of converting many of the Queen's collection of Da Vinchi cartoons into 1mx2m artwork panels for the main stand. We have been asked back again to provide new artwork in the restaurants and entrance halls. We are delighted to have been able to offer the service of scanning and re-interpreting many pieces of traditional art into a modern and very beautiful setting look inside. The results have been spectacular

Welcome to our new blog where we hope to generate a wide ranging and useful conversations on canvas prints and digital wall art.

I thought we might start with a response to an article by Will Cheung the editor of - goto Photography Monthly's website on the dummy’s guide to resolution.


Hooray! A little bit of light in the current madness of resolution and file size

Thanks for writing an excellent article, which to me seems the first time a mainstream magazine has acknowledged that you don't need 300 dpi to get a good image.

For our sins we are www.canvasrus.co.uk probably the largest on the online canvas printer and the bain of my life is tying to get people to understand that's it's not dpi that counts but file size (and please don't just blow it up in Photoshop). Indeed with the interpolation and colour management built into our rips we can get away with 72 dpi at a push. We actually print for a lot of photographers through our trade site www.portobelloart.co.uk my favourite being Beken of Cowes who just dumps a 5meg rbg jpg into our ftp and we get on with it, the results are stunning.

However most of website work though is from mums and dads, sending pictures of their kids using just about anything. Providing the file is over 500k and they only want a 20x16" canvas "you can still see the eyelashes", our problems come when someone starts messing about with the image, as what they see on their uncalibrated screen might well not be what we finally print out.

Anyway enough of my beef, we print more than 200 canvases a day and probably get 2/3 back a week so it's not too bad.