Acrylic Print vs Gallery Print

9 years 8 months ago #392766 by wwinter86
Hi,
I was thinking of getting one of my photos printed on something like canvas or acrylic, using acrylic or gallery print and was wondering which I should go for? I am thinking of using mypix.com ( Link ).


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9 years 8 months ago #392770 by Sue Bidwell
Those are completely opposites, what type of image are you printing?  Personally I like acrylics for portraits, and canvas for landscapes.  


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9 years 8 months ago - 9 years 8 months ago #392773 by wwinter86
I was thinking of my photo 'The State of Decay' (see my profile, it's the flag photo).

Could you tell me please when a person would choose Acrylic and when they would choose Gallery instead.


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9 years 8 months ago #392775 by Jennifer Krueger
I think that shot would work better with canvas.  I would punch up the colors a little to make them jump out of the canvas more.  ;)


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9 years 8 months ago #392776 by wwinter86
I will experiment with the colours a bit, but I am trying to keep it a little dull because of the theme/subject-matter.


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9 years 8 months ago #392777 by Jennifer Krueger

wwinter86 wrote: I will experiment with the colours a bit, but I am trying to keep it a little dull because of the theme/subject-matter.



Ohhhhhh, I didn't think about that.  I'm still voting for canvas :P


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9 years 8 months ago #392779 by wwinter86
Ok thanks :)


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9 years 8 months ago #392783 by Sue Bidwell
I like the photo and like the theme you are going with (title).  I'm going to agree with the canvas with the flat finish 


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9 years 8 months ago #392785 by wwinter86
The only trouble with canvas is it seems to crop some of the image, whereas with Acrylic I can show the whole thing.


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9 years 8 months ago #392812 by Tim Kelley

wwinter86 wrote: The only trouble with canvas is it seems to crop some of the image, whereas with Acrylic I can show the whole thing.



Not always, depends on how you have it set up.  Are you putting in a frame afterwards?  


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9 years 8 months ago #392825 by wwinter86
I've tried with and without frame and both ways seem to crop it.


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9 years 8 months ago #392831 by MYoung
I have canvas prints that were framed and nothing was cropped.  Might depend at this point on who did the work for you?  I like your idea BTW. 


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9 years 8 months ago #392956 by ThatNikonGuy
Tough, but I would go with the Acrylic on that one.  


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9 years 8 months ago #392978 by Sean Lewitts
+1 Canvas 


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9 years 8 months ago #393079 by Joves

wwinter86 wrote: I've tried with and without frame and both ways seem to crop it.

You could try resizing the image so that it will fit the canvas. How much can be determined by how much of the image it is chopping off. You can experiment by trying several different sizes in the preview. Also the gallery/canvas will dull the image to some extent, so you might want to up the saturation a tad to compensate for it, so it preserves what you see on the monitor. It will not take much of a boost though.
You really have to look at those two as the same difference between glossy, and matte papers.


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