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The latest art movement has seen an increase in art or photos reproduced on canvas, mostly because of the the revolution caused by digital cameras. These days individuals can take take photographs with their cameras, go to a canvas printshop and get their holiday / family photographs printed on canvas. Or their favourite sportsperson, actor, pop star etc. Anything photographed can be printed onto canvas sheet in minutes and appear as artwork on your office walls.

Digital cameras and photo software such as Photoshop have all of a sudden made it viable to practically create your own art on canvas - not only saving you some dosh by not having to purchase original artwork, but also bringing some enjoyment and creativeness to the task of adorning your walls with art as well.

There are loads of websites now that give you the option to upload your photograph, pick out your canvas size, and then pay for it. Usually these pictures are put on canvas stretched out utilising stretcher-bars.

If there’s a canvas printshop close to where you live, you can walk in to the shop with your photographs, and walk out 10 minutes afterwards with canvas artwork under your arm of your picture - it’s that straight-forward.

Any examples of such canvas art? Here are some prints of sports canvas art. If you’re stuck for inspiration, check out a website selling pictures that are royalty free - then take your purchased photos to a canvas printshop or website that produces canvas prints and have them reproduced onto canvas.

It seems for every year that goes by digital camera manufacturers are adding one more Megapixel (Mp) to their cameras. Could it be true that an existing 7 megapixel camera that’s on the market now had an equivalent model of 6 megapixels last year and 5 megapixels the year before that? Next year, will you see the same camera in an 8 megapixel version? Where will we be in another 10 years time?

But do we need the latest 8, 10 or even 12 megapixel camera? Well I have two answers for that question:

Yes, a.) You’re a professional photographer and often have to produce very large high quality prints. b.) If you love to have the latest and most up-to-date gadgets and technology, and are quite happy to spend the extra money to get it, and a little extra more to store those larger files.

No, because the biggest photo that I’ll print will be A4 or 10×8 and a 5 megapixel camera is more than capable of producing a quality photo at that size.

Let’s assume you’re not a professional, because if you were you wouldn’t need to read this article in the first place. So how many megapixels should you go for?
My short answer would be anything between 4 and 6 megapixels for an amateur who isn’t going to print much larger than A4.

Megapixels and Print Sizes
2Mp - Perhaps you have a camera on your phone. You wouldn’t want to get prints larger than 6×4.
3Mp - Will give you great 6×4 prints and good quality 7×5 prints too.
4Mp - Will give excellent 6×4 prints, great 7×5 prints, good quality 9×6 prints and passable 10×8 or A4 prints.
5Mp - Excellent 7×5 prints, great 9×6 prints, and good quality 10×8 or A4 prints. If your printer is capable of printing edge-to-edge photos then 5Mp will be your starting point.
6Mp - Excellent 10×8 or A4 prints, quality 15×10 prints and good prints up to A3.
7Mp - 8Mp - You must be a very keen on photography and looking for the best of kit.

Remember, the more pixels in your picture, the more storage space you’ll require and depending on the chip inside the camera it may take longer to process and save your files. This lag whist the camera is processing and saving the picture can be quite annoying if you like taking quick snaps. Some budget brands suffer badly from this.

To summarise, I recommend you stick with a quality brand and go for somewhere between 4 and 6 megapixels.

Bill Thomson has been a keen armature photographer for more than 20 years and runs the website http://www.got2know.co.uk Find out more on digital cameras at http://www.got2know.co.uk/digitalcameras.html
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