If you’ve ever wished there was a way to turn your photo prints into works of art, you’re in luck. Photo canvas designs can help you turn treasured memories into stunning pieces suitable for use as centerpieces in a home’s artistic design.

There are a number of options to suit the needs and styles of many different people when photo art is the topic at hand. Some of the basic styles people can choose from include:

Basic photo canvas or print – This type of photo canvas is a photograph that is made to look like a painting of sorts. When the right image is used, a photo canvas can quickly become a cherished wall hanging that looks stunning in any room design. Many people opt to go this route with images of their children, grandchildren and other loved ones.

Photo posters – These are fantastic for use with family photos, promotional pieces and even vacation landscape shots. This is an affordable way to enjoy photo prints that are large and suitable for framing.

Photo wallpaper – If a single wall hanging just isn’t enough to show off a favorite picture, how about using a whole wall? Photo wallpaper makes this more than possible. People often go this route with portraits and even landscapes. If there’s a favorite person or place in your life, dedicating a wall is an easy undertaking when photo canvas wallpaper is selected.

When basic photo prints aren’t enough to make an image stand out just right, photo canvas is often the answer. Many people are discovering just how easy it is to turn their favorite shots into works of art.

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When a baby is born, there is nothing that we won’t do to capture their first days with stunning detail. It’s pretty safe to say that at no time in this child’s life will there be more pictures taken of them than immediately following their birth. So ecstatic are we to share our baby with our friends and loved ones that we send pictures and create photo albums dedicated to the first days of our newborn. The Internet has made this sharing much easier, of course, as there are a host of high quality photo sharing sites that allow users to upload their pictures right from their digital camera and create online photo albums that they can invite their friends and family to view. By continually adding to their online photo albums and alerting loved ones, new parents can be assured that the latest pictures of their baby are being shared with the people they care most for in the world.

But photo sharing sites also offer a host of other options for those who are managing their photographs of their new baby – including the ability to create photo books for high quality mementos, design photo cards to announce the birth, and order inexpensive photo prints to be delivered to our doors where we can use them to create our baby book.

New parents may also be interested in another offering found through photo sharing sites – the photo canvas. With a photo canvas parents can choose the pictures that they would like to turn into wall art with just a few simple steps. Within moments, users of photo sharing sites can turn their favorite photographs into a photo canvas of any size to be hung on the walls of their home; a lasting tribute to their newborn baby and this precious time in their lives.

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Modern gift giving has become the ultimate challenge. After all, with the Internet at our disposal there is not much for which we want; and if we do want it, we simply log on and buy it ourselves. Giving a gift to the person who has everything is about finding those items that are more sentimental than they are materialistic, and photography has long filled that roll. A beautifully framed photograph of a child, a photo album filled with special family photographs, or a photo book filled with black and white photography capturing a special event; these are just some of the variety of photo gifts that can be created in just moments – and at affordable prices – photo pieces that will make the perfect gift for any occasion. One such gift is the photo canvas.

Imagine the most beautiful photograph you have ever taken; one that perhaps resides in photo albums you have created, or has perhaps been enlarged and framed at the standard 8 x 10 or 16 x 20 size. Now imagine that same photograph printed on canvas and stretched across wooden frames; literally turned into a piece of artwork that can be hung on a wall as a beautiful focal point in a room.

A photo canvas can be ordered through photo sharing sites where consumers can upload their pictures from their digital cameras, choose the photo they wish to use, and order a photo canvas – either of a particular scene that they love or a particular person they have captured in a unique way – in color or even black and white. By making a photograph into a unique photo canvas, consumers can turn beloved pictures into artwork that can be shared – and the ultimate gift for the person who may think they have everything!

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The do-it-yourself movement so popular in this country has given way to a society that will largely try anything in terms of décor and renovations. We have become very much self-reliant – examining new trends and discovering affordable ways to decorate our homes and infuse them with as much of our personality as possible. Of course, one of the ways that people have always created an intimate home is through the use of family photographs – displayed in frames, on mantels, or on walls throughout the home. Photographs traditionally displayed on the wall were done so in wall frames that held singular photos or collages that held a number of photographs in one frame; when done thoughtfully, frames displayed in this manner were always be able to fuse art and personality.

Today, there are even more options when it comes to displaying photography on the walls of our home. Through high-end photo sharing sites, consumers are able to upload the photographs of their choosing to be used in a variety of ways including photo albums, photo cards, and a photo calendar to be given as a gift. But one of the most unusual manifestations for some of our best photography is the photo canvas – a favorite photo printed at any size across a sturdy canvas.

A photo canvas takes personal photography to the next level, polishing it and turning it into a piece of art. The practice of making a photo canvas has grown in popularity lately as many people realize that this is an affordable, convenient, and truly unique way to add to their home’s décor.

Through state-of-the-art photo sharing sites it only takes a few moments to upload the photography you wish to you use in your home, choose a size that will fit most appropriately in the room you are considering, and place the order. Within a matter of days – and at an affordable price – consumers are able to see their photography truly come to life as artwork in their home.

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After the blog comment about “it being hard to find our contact information on our website,” I wanted to follow up with some more information about Photofun so potential new customers (Photofuners) could understand who we are; where we come from and what we do.

We launched www.photofun.com on Saturday March 15, 2008 and are getting a steady stream of visitors, many of whom have signed up (to become “Photofuners”), uploaded photos and have ordered one or more of our outstanding photo-products.

To give you some background about www.photofun.com:

Photofun is a Texas based corporation, with its U.S. headquarters in Dallas, TX.

Photofun started in Hengelo, a mid-size town in The Netherlands, in 2004 and has grown to become one of the leading photo-sharing services in Europe. Photofun does business in The Netherlands as Webprint C.V. (www.webprint.nl) and as Photofun, Inc., (www.photofun.com) in the USA. For ease I will call both companies Photofun when referring to our company.

Due to our success and the quality of our product we now have millions of customers all over Europe, with thousands of new customers signing up each week.

In November of 2007 the decision was made to enter the U.S. market and now here were are!

I joined Photofun in December to head up the U.S. venture. I have been in senior management leadership positions in the printing industry for over 20 years in the USA, and more recently (for the last five years) have been in the “on-demand and personal variable data digital printing sector.” My personal philosophy when it comes to business is to service the customer to the absolute maximum, to delight them with quality, service and price, and to be a market leader. I believe strongly that the company that I lead should be the leader in the marketplace in every element; creating excitement, and great products at competitive prices. I will do my utmost to create a unique company that will bring all of these elements to you.

For the last three months we have been working hard preparing for the launch of the U.S. website. Photofun is in full control of all production processes; everything we produce is manufactured entirely in-house. We own and write all of the programs that underpin the applications you will use on our site. In fact, at the very instant that you place an order, the product you have created (online), is transferred directly to a production printing device and printed automatically. The core of our business is built around our web-engine; it is due to this direct transfer of files that we are able to offer our ground- breaking low-prices and the reason that the quality of our product is so high.

All of your files are stored electronically on secure servers that are networked across the USA and Europe, using some of the most powerful and fast connectivity available today.

Photofun’s credo is “Quality & Innovation,” so we will constantly strive to bring new and high-quality innovative products and services to our site; we will continue to work hard to remain the technology leader in our field and to bring new products and services to our site for you to use so that you will always enjoy your experience when working with us!

Photofun’s corporate headquarters in the USA is located at: 7616 LBJ Freeway, Suite 540 Dallas, TX 75251.

Should you want to learn more about Photofun you can contact me. My email address is terry@photofun.com or my direct line is 214-473-5021.

I have personally made photo-products on our site (my wife and children love them) and as a fellow Photofuner I am blown away with their quality and value!

I look forward to working for you and sincerely hope that you enjoy your experience on our website… Please have Photofun!

Terry Rayner
President, Photofun, Inc.

One note: The engine for our website drives all of our applications and as we started in The Netherlands the base language used was Netherland’s (also known as Dutch) – we then used a conversion tool to convert the base language to American-English, British-English, French and German (to cover the languages of the countries our customers reside in); due to this, we are currently noticing a few minor language glitches. We are jumping on these glitches and are cleaning then up as we find them… if you see one please send me an email and I will credit your account with an additional 50 FREE 4” x 6” photos.

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As modern consumers we are challenged with walking the line between needs and wants on a daily basis – all with an eye towards our household’s bottom line. It is a difficult challenge to say the least; especially when you consider all of the conveniences afforded to us – some of which provide a much easier way to accomplish those tasks that once cost us so much time and money. But there is such a thing as false economy and those consumers who are attracted by the opportunity to save money by taking on a project themselves often find the reward to come up quite a bit short. The do-it-yourself movement – having put tools in the hands of home renovators, amateur mechanics, and part time interior designers – is one such example where, unless you know for sure that the savings will be worth it, it is very often best left to the professionals.

One industry that has offered consumers a world of time and money-saving options is that of photo printing. After all, there are few among us who do not own a digital camera; and the industry has taken note – offering consumers low prices on photo quality printers. But those who have taken the bait and bought the high-end printer understand better than anyone that their financial investment was far from over. In order to continue to produce high-quality photo prints and the myriad projects that the average consumer wishes to do with their photos, there requires a continued investment in photo quality paper and ink. The result? A staggering .30 to .50 average cost per print!

Such prices are even more out of line when you consider what the average amateur photographer does with their photo prints. Keeping in mind that photos taken are generally used for everything from holiday photo cards to photo albums, it is not difficult to see how the industry is making their money.

Super retailers, understanding this trend – and their customers’ need for fast, inexpensive photo prints – are offering what has been considered rock bottom prices on photo prints; many under .20 cents a print. And online retailers are keeping pace. Some of the most well-known online photo services currently offer their customers rates as low as .10 cents a print.

Photo Fun, however, offers customers the comprehensive, high quality services they have come to expect from online photo services at the lowest prices available - .5 cents a print.

Faced with the expensive materials, the time spent on creating photo prints that are of the quality consumers have come to expect, and the unpredictability of the equipment, consumers are largely abandoning their hopes of creating an efficient at-home photo lab. With photo giants such as Photo Fun offering high-quality, fast printing for everything from photo gifts to photo books – at industry low prices – consumers know they just have to logon to have everything they need shipped straight to their door – at the lowest prices available.

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