What is Stretching? The canvas is "stretched" around the frame and fastened on the back, giving it a taut appearance. You have two edge thickness choices and five edge color choices.

What is Gallery Wrapping? We mount your canvas print on a wood frame just like an oil painting. The portion of the image that is 1" to 2" from the edge is wrapped around the stretching bar. While most people do not frame gallery wrapped prints, your print can of course be easily framed if you like.

• White, Black and Colored Edges: The edges of your stretched canvas print will be white, black or colored. Image will still wrap approx. 1/8 - 1/4" inch to account for the rounded edges of the stretching bars.
• Gallery Wrap Image: We wrap your image around the edges. Because your image is wrapped around the edges of your print, your image will appear cropped on the front of your print. Before selecting this option make sure there is no detail near the edges of your prints that you would not want wrapped, such as a person's head, a signature, etc.
  
  **Note: Prints on 3/4" bars will lose about 1" of image all the way around due to wrapping. Prints on 1.5" bars will lose about 2" of image all the way around due to wrapping. This can be in addition to any other cropping needed to get the size you order. We are not responsible for image area lost when you choose this option.

• Mirror Wrapped Image: Create the illusion of a Gallery Wrap without wrapping portions of your image that you would prefer were still on the front of the canvas. We take a section of image near the edges, copy it and flip it to the sides. The print appears without close inspection to be a gallery wrap.

• Other Color: Choose an area of your image that has the color you would prefer. We will reproduce that color on the edges of your gallery wrapped canvas print. Image will still wrap approx. 1/8 - 1/4inch.

Cropping Information:

Why we may have to crop your image when you order a canvas print:

When part of your image is cut off and does not appear in the print, this is called cropping. Cropping is necessary when you order a canvas print with different proportions than your file image.

Canvas Prints ARE cropped if needed. Paper prints are NOT cropped.

Try to order your canvas prints in the same proportions as your file to limit cropping. If your file requires cropping, we will use our best judgment as to what to crop out and are not responsible for overly cropped images. We generally crop evenly from all sides. Cropping is done automatically by our software to get your selected size, so if your file proportions are different then the size your order, cropping will occur. If cropping is a concern, you should crop your file yourself.

Here are examples:

If you order a 8" x 9" print but you send us an 8" x 10" image, we would have to crop/cut 1" off your image to make it fit the 8" x 9" inch print you ordered. So say you order an 20" x 30" canvas print using that same 8" x 10" digital file, then your image would be cropped about 2" on both sides because an 8 x 10 enlarged to your ordered size would be 24" x 30", not 20" x 30".

This cropping is done automatically by our software unless you select "yes" on the order page for us to change your print size to more closely match your image size. If you select "no," your image will be automatically cropped to fit the size your ordered.

Most canvas prints we do are cropped and with most images, cropping is not a problem because we try to minimize the change to the overall image appearance in the choice of the cropped area, but if you are concerned about cropping, then you have several choices.

Cropping Tips:

Order your canvas print in the same or close to the same proportions as your digital image to limit cropping.

Crop your image first yourself, so you can control what is cropped out. 

Unless you require and exact size print, just order the size you want or think is correct and select "yes" for us to change the size of the print you ordered to closely match the image proportions that you sent. We will adjust your ordered print size down to a size closer to your image proportions using our best judgment. Some slight cropping may still occur.

On paper prints we generally do not crop, so if the file proportions and size ordered are not exact, your paper prints may not be the exact size you order.

Our Fine Art Canvases

Breathing Color Silverada

17 mil, 380 gsm poly-cotton metallic inkjet canvas
Silverada is a "silver metallic" fine art canvas, created from an optimal blend of metallic silver, and pearlescent surface finishes. This metallic canvas is a revolutionary addition to the industry and can only be found at Breathing Color. Silverada delivers an extremely high dmax, wide color gamut, and crisp resolution without the use of optical brighteners -- all characteristics that have become the hallmark of the Breathing Color brand. Photos in B&W or HD are mind-blowing on this canvas. Because of its unique metallic sheen, we do not coat this canvas after printing. The UV protection is built into the surface.

Cézanne Canvas

430 gsm · 100% Cotton · natural white
Hahnemühle Cézanne Canvas is a heavy inkjet canvas made of pure cotton, with an elegant, finely woven surface texture. The natural white canvas contains no optical brighteners and boasts a beautiful, natural shade of white. Together with the premium matt inkjet coating, it produces outstanding print results with excellent reproduction of colour and detail, deep black and exceptional contrasts. Cézanne Canvas is acid- and lignin-free and meets the most exacting requirements in terms of age resistance. This heavyweight canvas impresses with radiant colours and deep blacks, down to the smallest detail which bestows Fine Art prints an exceptional brilliance. Despite its heaviness, the canvas is extremely elastic and is highly compatible with canvas stretcher frames.

Epson Exhibition Natural Matte

19 mil, 390 gsm poly-cotton metallic inkjet canvas
This canvas is a very high performance product. We chose this to be the successor to our 100% cotton canvases that we have always offered for the most demanding situations. This canvas is normally hand sprayed with a satin finish. You can request other finishes including roll coating or textured according to your instructions in the Special Instructions box during the order process. An acid free, lignin free heavyweight cotton-poly blend, this elegantly textured canvas features a matte non-reflective surface with a bright white point, exceptionally high Dmax and wide color gamut. Exhibition Canvas Natural Matte enables users to achieve industry-leading DMax and color gamut for prints that require stunning, museum-grade image quality and durability, without the use of Optical Brighteners (OBA). Built on a polyester and cotton blend that is specially coated to produce vibrant colors as well as rich, deep blacks and tonal gradations that distinguish them from competitive products. These poly-cotton canvases are also the ideal weight and can also be easily stretched and coated to help achieve the best combination of image quality and archival display life.

Breathing Color 17M

17 mil 350 gsm poly-cotton archival certified inkjet canvas
This product is a lighter weight version of our Crystalline product. It is free of optical brightening agents (OBA's) and fluorescent whitening agents (FWA's). It also has an acid free, neutral pH coating. Breathing Color revolutionized inkjet canvas with their first to market "Chromata White" technology. This new product gives giclée printers the most stable platform on which to print photographs and fine art reproductions without the metamerism issues or color shift issues inherent in other canvases. Optical brighteners and fluorescent whiteners compromise the attainment of true color, they detract from profiling accuracy, and they inevitably deteriorate and yellow over time. What all of this means to you is superior color reproduction and long term color stability.

**Note: If you are a professional, moving up to an OBA free canvas, you should ask us to proof your image to insure correct brightness and color fidelity. There may be slight differences in tone due to subtle changes in the whiteness of the canvases.