Create posters "oil on canvas" from photos.

Good day!
My name is Michael. I have been fond of photography for a long time. There were also commercial works (weddings, parties). Recently I discovered another field of activity. One friend, dreamily looking at one of my landscapes, said she would not refuse to have such a large picture, painted in oil on canvas, in her living room. But, unfortunately, to order a painting the artist will be very expensive ...

I had an idea to solve this problem without attracting the artist. I climbed the Internet looking for a photo processing algorithm to give it the look of "oil on canvas." I found several algorithms, but after testing them in practice, none of them I liked ... I had to experiment and invent my own. And it turned out! Both the customer and I were very pleased with the result! After that, I was ordered to posters "oil on canvas" is already her friends from their favorite (or my favorite) photos.

In the process of searching for information on turning a photo into "canvas" found in one of the magazines "Photoshop" for 2000. Description of the method as a real, real photo printed in the photo salon, make a thin and using a special device to paste on a real canvas (sacking and etc). But, this is a way for people who are very fond of working with their hands. In addition, there is a problem that a real photo is glued to the canvas, but they are not recommended to be kept without a protective glass. And if you put such a glass, then all the charm disappears from the "canvas" texture of the image. Both my shortcomings are free, the way I use it, and which does not require fine manual work (and in general no manual work!).

Print on canvas

A little about the economic feasibility : it will cost you the creation of one poster "oil on canvas" with an area of ​​0.5 sq. M approximately 800 - 1000 rubles (depending on the frame of the "picture"). A standard Chinese poster in a store with a standard storyline costs about 1200 - 1600 rubles. But, since you will do your work on the ORDER with images in which the client is especially interested, he willingly lays out 2000 - 3000 rubles for them. Those. From each poster you can "weld" 1000 - 2000 rubles. Computer processing of one image takes approximately 2 -3 hours (with tea drinking and parallel viewing of the TV: -). Work on printing on canvas and making frames you yourself do not have to do.

So time will not take much production, and marketing will depend only on your imagination in the field of marketing. In other matters, as my experience has shown, even without any "marketing fantasy", acting with only one method of advertising "friends saw from acquaintances", and then you can provide a piece of butter to your labor "hunch" :-).

Create posters with oil on canvas from photos

If in brief, the essence of the technology is to process photos in Photoshop and print in the nearest company on the canvas.

In order not to overload the article with details of the technology of making "oil on canvas," I described both methods in detail on a specially created page Holstmas.narod.ru
Regards, Mikhail