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Your photo. Wrapped on canvas.

£51.4930x40 cm · Canvas · your photo

Gelato product render: an example narrowboat watercolour, standing in for your own photograph, on a stretched canvas, seen at an angle
Gelato render with example artwork; yours prints your photograph.
Size

Your photo: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB. Every size is checked against its resolution.

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  • Free UK delivery, tracked
  • Arrives damaged or with a print fault? We reprint or refund it at our cost.
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Which photo to send

Upload the original file, not a screenshot or a picture saved from a messaging app. Once it is uploaded, each size shows the sharpness your file gives it: 300 dpi or more is graded Sharpest, 140 to 300 prints well, and under 140 that size cannot be chosen.

Delivery and returns

Made to order. Free UK delivery, tracked. Arrives damaged or with a print fault? We reprint or refund it at our cost.Delivery and returns

Same photo, other ways

How it works

Printing your photo
Recorded on the photo print page: uploading a photo, the sharpness check on each size, and adding it to the basket. Read the transcript

Sizes and prices

Every price includes free UK delivery.
SizeYour photoName printBoat portrait
30x40 cm£51.49£51.49£85.00
40x50 cm£59.00£59.00£89.99
50x70 cm£89.00£89.00£109.99
60x80 cm£99.00£99.00£119.99
  • Canvas on a 2cm FSC stretcher. Solid wood, and it needs no border and no frame.
  • The wrap does not eat your photograph. The face you approve stays the face: the band that goes round the edge is generated from a scaled copy of the picture rather than cut out of it, so the sides carry a soft, blurred band taken from your picture's colours and the boat is not clipped by the frame edge.
  • Sized against your file. Every size is graded against the resolution of what you upload, and the ones it cannot carry are switched off before you choose.
  • UK delivery, 4–9 working days. Made-to-order, ships boxed and tracked. Free UK delivery.

Sizes

  • 30x40 cm
  • 40x50 cm
  • 50x70 cm
  • 60x80 cm

What canvas does to a photograph

Canvas is a woven surface with no glass over it, and that changes the picture in two ways worth knowing before you choose it over paper. It softens fine detail, because the weave itself is coarser than the ink: rigging lines, distant lettering and the fine work on a painted panel all lose a little. And it kills reflection completely, which is why it suits a cabin wall opposite a porthole where a glazed frame would show you nothing but the window.

The trade is straightforward. A photograph with a strong shape — the whole boat against water, a bow wave, a lock gate — gains from canvas. A photograph whose point is a small detail is better on paper.

Choosing the size

30x40 cm is a cabin-scale piece and the one that fits between portholes. 40x50 cm is the usual gift size. 50x70 and 60x80 cm are house sizes: on a boat they take a whole wall, which is right above a stove and wrong almost everywhere else.

Want a wooden frame round it? The framed canvas sets the same canvas in black, dark wood or natural wood.

Questions before you go

What photo resolution do I need?

300 pixels per inch across the finished canvas is the ideal and 140 is the floor; under that the size is refused rather than printed soft. Canvas is more forgiving than paper here, because the weave breaks up detail anyway, but the grading is the same and it happens the moment you upload.

How do I hang it?

It hangs from the stretcher bars, so one hook in the wall carries it. There is no glass and no frame, which is the reason a lot of boaters choose canvas over a framed print: nothing to shatter when the boat moves, and a good deal lighter on a panelled wall.

Returns?

Made-to-order from your photo, so no change-of-mind returns. Arrives damaged? We'll replace it: see our returns page.

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