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<\/p>\nThe revolution of smartphone cameras and affordable digital cameras has inspired a whole new generation of people to pursue photography as both a hobby and a source of design inspiration in their homes by photos on canvas in order to create bespoke wall art. But while some of the sources for canvas art are obvious \u2013 family photos, vacation shots \u2013 sometimes our design sensibility rejects faces and places as a design element and wants something more abstract, something closer to contemporary art.<\/p>\n
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You can purchase abstracts and patterns online or in a store, of course, but it\u2019s more fun \u2013 and more intimate \u2013 to create your own for use in your interior design vision. Getting started is the hardest part \u2013 grab your camera phone or digital camera and try some of these simple tips to get amazing photos as grist for your photos on canvas.<\/p>\n
The first thing to consider when looking for inspiration for abstract-like images is the colours you\u2019re working with. Whether it\u2019s an existing room you\u2019re seeking to accessorise or a design that\u2019s evolving in your head for the future, your first step has to be the colour palette you\u2019ll be working with.<\/p>\n
Once you have the colours fixed in your mind \u2013 just look around! There are literally going to be dozens and dozens of potential subjects juts lying around the house. If your room needs yellow and green accents, open the fridge and find the lemons and limes you keep in the crisper. Need reds and oranges? What about the flowers in your garden, or the tomatoes and peppers you have on hand for dinner. Look at lamps, pillows, and your children\u2019s crayon art \u2013 colour is everywhere.<\/p>\n
The next tip is take your colour inspiration, whatever it is, is to get in close. And we mean close<\/em>. Set your camera\u2019s quality settings as high as they\u2019ll go and get in as close as you can. Zoom in until you can\u2019t readily recognise what the object is, until the natural texture becomes a pattern and the colours are vibrant and fill the frame.<\/p>\n The closer you get, the better \u2013 up to a point. If your image just becomes a blob of solid colour, you\u2019ve gone in too close. We want the texture and pattern of it, we just want to abstract it a little so it becomes a pattern and not a photo. Play around \u2013 digital means you can take nearly infinite photos of your idea, so zoom in, zoom out, play with the lighting, and snap away until you have a bunch of interesting photos.<\/p>\n Finally, when you have a raw photo that\u2019s colourful and interesting, load it into your computer\u2019s photo editing software and play with the cropping. You want a lot of colour \u2013 but you also need a little white space. Remember the Rule of Thirds and make sure your pattern and colour is composed well so the image has some energy \u2013 you don\u2019t want flat, static photos on canvas that simply add splashes of colour \u2013 you want them to be more interesting than that.<\/p>\n When you\u2019re done, you\u2019ll have a beautiful abstract piece of contemporary art for photos on canvas that will enhance your room and still be an intimate piece of art from your own eye and your own life \u2013 priceless. When you\u2019ve got the ideal image, click here<\/a> and let us have the honour of turning it into an amazing piece of wall art!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The revolution of smartphone cameras and affordable digital cameras has inspired a whole new generation of people to pursue photography as both a hobby and a source of design inspiration in their homes by photos on canvas in order to create bespoke wall art. But while some of the sources for canvas art are obvious … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"finding-photographic-inspiration-canvas-printing-little-girl-drawing\"](\"https:\/\/www.thecanvasfactory.com.au\/blog\/app\/uploads\/finding-photographic-inspiration-canvas-printing-little-girl-drawing.jpg\")
<\/p>\nCanvas Printing from Your Photos Tip 3: Crop<\/h2>\n