Creating Personalized Art Through Photo Painting

Creating personalized art through photo painting.

Your Photo To Painting combines the best of what most people are looking for in artwork -- something that resonates and means something to them personally, and is an incredible value. In order to create personalized art for you by the process of photo painting, we start with your most treasured photographs, of family, wonderful memories or locations. We create a digital painting to your preferred size, from 11 x 14 up to 24 x 36. (These are our standard sizes, though custom sizes smaller and larger are also easy to order.) You are able to see your painting proof online, the overall suggested cropping, as well as a few sections enlarged enough to show the amount and degree of brushstroke technique and realism.

This process is further personalized by the fact that you can request additional proofs that adjust the amount of realism to be 'looser' (less realistic) or 'tighter' (more realistic). We can even offer 'selective' realism -- keeping faces a bit tighter while letting the surrounding clothing or background become more loosely painted.

The typical piece of artwork that hangs in most homes may be chosen for various reasons: the size and scale of the piece works well with the space it occupies on the wall, and the colors of the artwork go well with the rest of the decor. The subject matter may or may not be especially meaningful to the homeowner, but it is very rarely 'personal'. By letting you choose the exact image that you would like converted into a photo painting, you can still control the scale and the colors but with the added benefit of having personalized art that really means so much more to you. In the past, this privilege was only available to those patrons able to afford an original commissioned piece of art, costing ten to twenty times more.

Photo painting is still in it's infancy in terms of awareness and acceptance. Many people just do not know about the tremendous array of techniques and the value available for their personalized art choices. There are some sites that offer rather crude attempts at imitation pop art, sketching or charcoal styles, etc. that do not help advance the idea that classic, realistic choices are out there. Many of these sites are 'single-filter' processes that are in all candor, just not that attractive. To be fair, there are a few subjects that don't work that well with our system either, but that has more to do with the amount of texture versus smooth surfaces in the area painted. (See the section on the "Importance of Texture" <http://www.yourphototopainting.com/categories/84/Default.aspx>)

Another way that we have made photo painting into a personalized art form is through custom type or text additions to your painting. We have added meaningful quotes, poems or just small captions that identify a location and date, or perhaps an address. You are able to view the font selection and size prior to committing to your purchase, a nice feeling of control on your part. Another nice touch when purchasing a photo painting that will be sent as a gift of personalized art is the free inclusion of a gift card. We will print a 5 x 6 card, personalized with a message and your name as the sample shows. And lastly, we now sell easy to purchase gift certificates online that are also sent in whatever amount you feel is appropriate for your gift-giving occasion and budget.

Creating a photo painting is such a fun and collaborative process for making a canvas that is personalized art at it's best, it is meaningful to you and can be delivered quickly (usually in about a week). And every photo painting sold comes with our 20-day satisfaction guarantee.