How to Create a Mirror Wrap for a canvas print in Photoshop
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- In this how-to tutorial, I show you how to create a gallery wrap for a canvas print in Adobe Photoshop. Rather than lose any of the front face of the photo being wrapped around the canvas frame, we mirror the 4 edges to create the file to send to the printer. This gallery wrap technique is a simple method to prepare your photo, ready to send to your printer for canvas printing avoiding that horrible stretched edge look and instead mirroring the front face in a much more pleasing result.
The second half of the video addresses the photoshop canvas wrap effect and how to create the canvas mirror wrap and the first part discusses the process I go through to check an image is actually print-ready. In this case, it involves removing unwanted elements with Photoshop's spot healing brush tool (what a great tool this is by the way!), and a little bit of liquify on the clothing. I also discuss the potential pitfalls of using liquify in a heavy-handed manner on your clients!
1) prepare the photo by removing distracting elements that become more visible when the photo is enlarged
2) Resize the image to the size of the canvas print (front face only) without resampling the pixels
3) extend the canvas by 4cm on each edge
4 copy and flip first horizontally, and then vertically the image and slide each edge into position.
5) (Optional) add your logo or signature.
6) Convert to sRGB or Adobe RGB depending on your printer's preference. Save, and upload to your printer.
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YOU JUST SAVED ME CANVAS!!! I printed about 10 prints trying to figure out how to wrap the canvas with leaving white on the edges, or how to fit the print perfectly on the frame without losing some of the print to the edge of the canvas. Really, what a hero, thank you so much!
Great to hear. It's one of my lesser watched videos so it's good to know it's been helpful! :)
Have been looking for this video for last 3 weeks, fortunately found it today. Thank you for this video ❤❤❤
Thank you for helping me solve a problem I had no solution to Anthony! I am a photographer who produces digital imagery from my photographs and represent fine art painters. I sold a 48 x 48 inch print and though I am very well versed in giclee printing and how to get truly excellent quality of a painting to the point people routinely mistake them for the original paintings - I had decided that the print in question - which is 48 x 48 inches - and was scanned on a Cruse scanner (which I don't recommend incidentally - their color management well - shall we say is less than optimum - I decided to put a gallery wrap on it.
My printer gave me a competitive price on the print itself but, then wanted the price of the print once again for the gallery wrap. I thought to myself - you must be kidding! No way.
I work with Photoshop a lot - by no means expert - but can almost invariably get to where I want to go, but had no clue how to do a gallery wrap; as most people put frames of their prints but this client just wants it on stretcher bars. So, fortunately, I happened up your excellent tutorial! I look forward to seeing more.
Huge knowledge bomb. Thank you for the guidance. I rarely comment on videos but this is just very very well done. Excellent job mate.
Cheers Jason. I appreciate the comment mate. 😄
Great video! I just started working for a canvas production company and I have been hired to edit wrap extensions as part of my job. It used to be something we sent off to be worked on by another company but now we can do it in-house. I have a degree in visual design but I have never had to think about adding extensions to an image before. With the use of the "Content Aware Fill…" tool, I will be adding this tip to my workflow.
This method defiantly helps to keep the image's focus in tact and I see it working for a lot of obscured background detail like foliage or portrait backdrops. Though, when it comes to keeping directional objects in continuity such as the bridge in this photo, I find the Content Aware Fill tool and some slight manual editing to work really well at extending and completing edges.
Thank you for this tutorial!
Cheers for the feedback Mark. All the best in your new roll!
This is such a helpful video! It's very easy to follow along. I continually refer back to it when I've an order, although I'm thinking I'll be able to remember it all correctly from here out. Bravo, and thank you!
Great to hear. Thanks Kevin.
Really interesting, thank you
So helpful, thank you!!
You're so welcome!
very clever ! thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you very much!
No worries Dimitri
Thank you
one tiny change I made to your process (which i love) is to use Ctrl shift alt E a few times to copy visible to top layer a when copying the merged layer for the top and bottom - it removes the excess on the side
Nice. Glad you've added to it. (I love that monster shortcut btw!)
@@AnthonyTurnham It’s my favorite because it’s so ridiculous!
@Phillip Guyton 😆 indeed!
Thanks! What's a good place to order stretcher bars???
Great video. How long does the canvas need to dry before it is ready to be framed? I will use canon pro 2100.
Hi mate. I don't do the printing part. I outsource that so I'm not sure I'm afraid.
Great video mate
how much would suggest selling those?
the finish product
Thanks Big Dub. It really depends on several factors and it's hard to give a concrete answer for your particular business set up. I used to do the wedding canvas as a product built into a package to add value. I do sell canvases like this as landscape prints and you can see all the pricing here: www.newzealandscapes.co.nz/ bear in mind that's NZ dollars 😀
Hi Anthony! First of all thanks so much! I do have a question. When I change my canvas size it is making a white border instead of the checkered so when I duplicate the layer the duplicates also had a white border and I cant mirror the image because of that, I have googled but i cant find a solution, do you know a way to fix this?
Hi Katie, thanks for the question. I'm thinking you're working on the background layer. You need to double click the layer to turn it into "layer 0". That will allow transparent pixels added around the edge. The background layer only works with full opacity pixels. I think I mentioned this in the video, so if not, sorry. It's an important part of the steps involved. Hope that helps. 😀👍
THANK YOUUU !!!! please what is the type of paper ?
Hi. It's actual canvas rather than paper that I'm printing to. A lot of online printers (and local ones if you have them) will be able to offer a canvas print and stretch service. (IE the print stretched over the wooden frame).
Hi Anthony, I am a newbie....I am watching your video over and over because I can't work fast until I know where to go and what to do. Can you help me with editing a smart object as you are doing at the beginning of video. I opened a photo file as smart object. Then I followed what you did by adding new layer. I used the spot healing brush and noted you are on the empty layer BUT nothing happens when I use the spot healing brush. I know how to do this on the real layer but have never figured out how to do it without changing the original layer. What am I missing?
Hi Sarah. Really good question there! So when you use the spot healing or clone brush tool if you look on the tool bar running across the top there's a little check box that says "sample all layers". If you tick this you'll be able to work on a blank top layer while the tool uses information from the underlying layers. Hope that helps you out 😀
I see you added 8 extra centimetres here (difference between the image size and canvas size). Is there a rule of thumb as too how many pixels/cm's/inches to add to the image (on each edge) so that it wraps perfectly around the canvas? I.e. for a 1.25" (inch) edge, should I be adding that amount? Or more?
Cheers for the question Whitesnake2. My rule of thumb is the depth of the wooden box frame the canvas is stretched over + 5mm. So the frame is 35mm and that allows a 5mm overlap to wrap right around to the back. The overlap ensures there's never any unprinted canvas showing if there's any mis-alignment.
@@AnthonyTurnham perfect Anthony. Thank you for the quick response. I'll work on this and revert with anymore questions I may have. Many thanks.
Hey boss what kind of printer do you use to print onto tour canvases
Hi Kirat, I only prep the file for print, it's then sent digitally to our print lab who takes care of the printing and stretching.
Or....You could use ON1 gallery wrap option. Why Adobe hasn't added a single click gallery wrap option like ON1 has hsd for years now is a mystery....
True true! It would be an easy thing for the programmers to implement, and as a lot of people printing canvases want the gallery wrap effect it makes a lot of sense! Cheers for the comment 😃
5:50 why not click the "relative" button? that way you can just press 8, instead of 68
No biggie really. And I like the peace of mind knowing the number I've typed is the final dimension I want. But sure, whichever way floats your boat.
It won’t work from a jpg image
Sure it will. Where are you stuck?
Why dont you show to apply the actual canvas ?!
I outsource my printing to a print lab so I don't do that part.
@@AnthonyTurnham Ok, i understand, i want to do this, thats why i ask. Thanks!