Canvas Frames/Stretching

djd80

Hi All

A friend of mine wants one of my photos, which was taken near where she lives put onto a canvas for her. Now I am hoping to keep it as low as possible costwise while setill giving her a relatively decent print.

I have trawled through the forum and read up the various discussions on canvas (one thread was 15 pages long!) and come to the conclusion to order from updone.com.

On their website though it says that they only ship rolled canvas internationally now so I would have to get the canvas on a frame/stretched.

Anyone know if thats easy or where I would buy such a frame or am I creating a lot of hassle for myself?

Cheers

emul

Contact Steve at www.360-dpi.com, he regularly frequents this forum, he will do the whole lot for you and is Dublin based. Quality is top notch.

.Longshanks.

Without talking away from the quality work that Steve does, have you checked out www.aldiphotos.ie. I haven't used them but on a budget they might be worth considering

Chorcai

If your in Dublin you could buy the frame/stretchers from Evans. http://kmevans.com/

Or Cork Art supplies in Princess st. any of those places have really good staff who can help.

How to stretch

djd80

Chorcai wrote: »

If your in Dublin you could buy the frame/stretchers from Evans. http://kmevans.com/

Or Cork Art supplies in Princess st. any of those places have really good staff who can help.

How to stretch

Thanks for that, Cork art supplies are looking good, I'll be in town tomorrow and I reckon I could follow one of those videos alright...

Nozebleed

why dont you give this place a call...i've got plenty of work done by them...really excellent quality.

http://www.photolabs.ie/Default.html

stcstc

i have stretched canvases from updone for people here

i found it hard to work with, but you know it works

only big prob with it, it flakes very easy so if you have large quite solid bits of colour when streching you can take off the ink

Fireman

stcstc wrote: »

i have stretched canvases from updone for people here

i found it hard to work with, but you know it works

only big prob with it, it flakes very easy so if you have large quite solid bits of colour when streching you can take off the ink

I had 4 canvas done in updone in the past, I recently uploaded my print to be put on a canvas and after a week they told me they no longer send completed canvas to Ireland so I need one fast, I contacted Steve (Very late at night) and he had the canvas at my door in three days as I needed it for a customer in a hurry because of the delay with updone. When I compared the two canvas Steve's and Updone, I would never again get one done by Updone as Steve's canvas is top class, brilliant white and good solid frame very neat on the corners, You pay for the quality, maybe he might give a reduction for photographers!!! thought I might get this in