While most photographs these days are taken on digital cameras (including smartphones), how do you go about turning old photos into quality canvas prints?

Photos are a great way to preserve memories, but if you were an active snapper pre-digital, or have some old family photos that you’d love to see printed on to canvas, don’t think that having just a physical copy is a barrier to printing! 

We can scan your image and then restore damaged photos; helping you turn your old photos to canvas print or frame it! Get in touch today to get started!

Here is a restoration we completed recently!

This was the image  before...

Here is the old photo printed on canvas after we worked our magic!

If you’re thinking of turning old photos into quality canvas prints, then firstly, you’re going to need to dig out that old shoebox of printed images and start sifting through them to find you favourites. It may be that you want an image of each generation, or a collection of family photos that span several decades so you can see how you’ve all grown and changed.

Think about composition and how those images will look when displayed on a wall – are the subjects all looking at the camera? Or is it an action shot you’re after, showing your loved ones engaged in some kind of fun activity?

Also, while it may seem much easier to transfer your images via email, if you’re using old photos rather than digital files and don’t have a decent scanner at home, you can always pop the original in the post – we’re always happy to receive your images in this way and will return it back to you once we’ve printed it on canvas.

While it’s important to select the right photos, don’t discard any favourites just because they’re looking a bit tatty. Digital retouching is commonplace now, but there are still plenty of ways to improve the quality of old photos to make then suitable for printing on canvas.

We can remove scratches, tidy up marks, even out faded areas and even crop your images in order to ensure the photos is framed perfectly on the canvas and remove those distracting imperfections.

So don’t worry if the old photos you’re turning into canvas prints are not great quality, as we’ll do everything we can to improve them!

While you might think all canvas printing services are the same, the quality of the print will very much depend on the quality of the canvas itself, the printing equipment and the inks used. Inferior canvas and poor quality inks can lead to fading and lack of sharpness – and if you’ve had an old photo touched up to remove these issues, you certainly don’t want the final print to revert the image back the original state!

We strongly advise that if you’re planning on turning your old photos into canvas prints that you check out reviews and feedback for the company you’re thinking of using - social media can be a great place to look too - so that you can be sure that their canvas prints are of the quality they claim.

Follow our step-by-step guide on how to scan an old photo to transform to canvas to easily convert old photos to digital copies. We make it super simple to quickly take a hardcopy photograph to a digital copy so you can start creating your own custom prints online today!

Get in touch today, our team would love to print your ordinary photographs into digital artwork!