Gallery wrapped prints have the canvas wrapped around wood stretcher bars and are ready to hang. We offer several different stretcher bar depths to meet your needs. All gallery wrapped canvases are hand-sprayed with an archival UV coating of your choice and come with a wired back.
Rolled canvas prints are flat canvases that are not wrapped around stretcher bars. Ideal for shipping to clients who would rather save on postage costs and have canvases wrapped at their locale, or if you are going to mount the canvas to board or another substrate. Hand-sprayed with an archival UV coating of your choice.
Each of the matte smooth papers we offer has little to no texture, making them perfect for a wide range of imagery as they provide a blank canvas, as it were, to show off your artwork. Papers come in a variety of brightness and thickness to meet your needs. We suggest a heavier weight paper when making limited edition prints.
Ideal for watercolors, pastels, and charcoal imagery, our matte textured papers so perfectly mimic ‘real’ watercolor paper that it’s nearly impossible to tell that your print is a reproduction. We offer papers ranging from moderately to heavily textured to meet your needs.
These papers bring a slight sheen to your imagery and work very well with portraiture and landscape photography. They range from smooth, pearlized surfaces to moderately textured gloss surfaces that highlight saturated colors and high contrast black and white images. Our satin and pearl papers have the least reflective properties, while luster and baryta papers are glossier.
Our Baryta papers offer an amazing old school look and feel of a traditional silver print. Very reminiscent of early 20th and mid-century photographic papers, these Baryta papers are made with a special coating of barium sulfate that is used with photographs developed in a traditional darkroom. The textured, glossy surface adds loads of depth and offers some of the best color pop for your imagery.
Truly unique, these metallic papers add depth and brilliance to your imagery. The metallic pearl has a soft, smooth pearlized surface while the metallic silver will enhance any blue tones in your print. Metallic papers don’t work for all images, however, so you may want to talk to us prior to placing an order.
Gloss papers most closely resemble photographs that are printed in traditional darkrooms. The highly reflective, resin-coated surface allows your imagery to pop - especially high contrast and black and white photography. Best for times when you need your colors to be deeply saturated and sharp.
Are you a professional artist or photographer? Then yes, you should be proofing pieces you are selling. You can certainly skip the proofing if you want. Sometimes prints look great the first try. But most of the time they’ll be too dark, or have too much contrast, or maybe that green doesn’t sit quite right with you. It’s important to proof to ensure your print is perceived as you intended your art to look.
You can learn all about proofing and what that entails on our Working With Us page under the Proofing tab. Everything you need to know to proof with us is there.
Because we don’t have a photo editing component to our website, it is required that you know how to use, or hire someone who knows how to use, photo editing software. In particular, Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom. There are other great photo editing programs, but these are the two that we use extensively.
Because we service professionals, we do not like editing through website-based systems. We want TIFF’s or other large format images, especially for proofing. Those files are usually too big to efficiently manipulate online, and we prefer the editing be done in real image editing software that does not degrade the image.
You will need, at the very minimum, to resize and possibly crop your image. Especially when you’re reproducing original artwork, you may have to crop out the edge of the canvas or edit any number of things to make your image print ready. Please read what we have for you on the Working With Us page under the Print Ready tab. Your understanding of editing, resizing and cropping will ensure a successful turnout for you.
In most cases it will be very close, sometimes even very hard to tell the difference. Our goal at Craft Giclee is to capture the original intent of the piece. Light, shadow, contrast or the lack there of, is very important to ensuring that the print is successful. That’s why proofing is a very important part of the process.
Due to variations in color, light and materials, there will always be a difference in what the final print looks like compared to the original. Please be sure to read and understand all the info on our Working With Us page to help inform you on the process and the outcome.
Sorry, at this time you can only save one shipping address in our system. So, you’ll need to enter each address individually.
You can learn about all these details and more by reading our Working With Us page.
Please call with any questions at (480) 663-3313 during regular business hours.
