For those who do gallery wraps, I was wondering if any of you do a solid color wrap instead of making the image wrap all the way around? I was tinkering with an image that I wanted to make into a smaller wrap, but I'd lose some of the content at smaller sizes. To be more specific, I have a 2:3 photo (shown below) that I want to cover 8x12 on canvas, but with the 16x20 suggested by simplycanvas, I'd lose a good chunk of it. It would have to be huge to minimize loss. I'd like to eventually make it huge, but right now I was just going to make some smaller ones as gifts. I was thinking black sides would look good for it. Was just wondering if anyone else does it this way.

I don't know about simplycanvas, but the companies I have used can't guarantee that you will end up with the black sides that you are looking for - when they are stretching the canvas, it's hard to line it up that way, and I believe it is not recommended. Simplycanvas might have a different policy, but just something to keep in mind.

I've just found not every image works as a gallery wrap. I do think this would look fabulous as a b&w metallic on standout board - it would give you the black edge you want but it would be something different than just a framed image.

Nice image, btw!

Pixel2canvas allows you to use a solid color border. And they do a great job keeping the solid on the sides.

I agree with Jessica. Try printing on canvas and have it mounted on masonite instead. Beautiful and long-lasting, can be "hung" unframed using a print shelf, or it can be framed. They're heavy, and the masonite eeks quality.

I'm not crazy about the roof line in this image -- I find it distracts from the emotion and action of an otherwise great shot. If it were me, I'd see how it looks with the roof erased before I made an expensive print.

Yeah I noticed another company, canvas on demand, offers solid colored sides, so I may give it a go and see how it comes out.Yeah, I could clone that out pretty easily, I'd imagine.

send it over to pixel2canvas and they'll let you know what they can do with it. roxanne and curt are super-awesome and will be more than happy to help!

Stick with simply canvas, they are amazing. They do solid color sides and digital stretching as well as standard wrap. I would reccomend doing white for this wrap, it will look great.

When I use a solid color for my gallery wrap sides instead of wrapping the image itself, I usually sample a color from the image for the solid color rather than just choosing "white" or "black" or "whatever" just to have the correct tones. On some images I've added a texture to the "solid" color, but that wouldn't apply in this case.

Another reccomendation for Roxanne at pixel2canvas - super helpful and fabulous customer service, and they do solid colours on the sides of the wrapped canvas.

Ditto 10X's I would go with white too....

that is a sweet shot

Kerri

the P2C service is where it's at... not to mention that their canvases are much better quality than simplycanvas.