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Mar 02, 2011 11:40 |  #1

I was totally oblivious about printing and wrapping canvas until I walked into a local art / framing shop, "Opus", here in Vancouver. I had no idea that the "stretcher bars" were actually the pieces of the frame :oops:. Haha.. Long story short, I figured it all out in a short period of time and now I'm even assembling the bars and wrapping my own canvas at home. I sold 3 prints this week and now my gf wants some on our wall!. I just wanted to share some photos to show how easy it is :)

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PS: If you plan on printing some of your own images on canvas, here is a great tutorial I found on youtube that shows you how to gallery wrap your images so that you don't lose any of your image on the sides/top/bottom and avoid white space.

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Mar 04, 2011 08:36 |  #2

Thanks, this got me interested in the same.
edit: I watched the video but I'd be interested in seeing what you do next in actually applying the canvas to the frame. How does that work?


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Mar 04, 2011 09:25 |  #3

I agree. The pictures just show assembling the frames. But what about the stretching the canvas on the frame part?


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Mar 05, 2011 19:20 |  #4

I have 2 canvas' arriving on Wednesday. I'll take some photos as I wrap them to show you how easy it is to do yourself :)


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Mar 09, 2011 10:56 |  #5

Thanks. I have a few canvas's coming soon and this would be helpful.


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