Painting Galleries

YourPhotoToPainting.com presents several galleries of heirloom quality painting examples.
For convenience, we've grouped them by the common subject matter of the uploaded photographs.

Pet Gallery	Wedding Gallery	Families and Children	Travel and Vacation	Specialty and Other

A) Pets
B) Weddings
C) Families and Children
D) Travel and Vacation
E) Specialty & Other

Before browsing our various galleries for ideas and inspiration, lets address this question:

"What is the difference between your paintings or portraits from photos and original commissioned ones?"

As artists who have painted many original commissioned pieces, we can offer our take on the difference between the traditional hand-painted approach and a digitally painted portrait from photo from Your Photo To Painting.com. The main difference from the standpoint of you, the person purchasing a portrait from photo is that our website is about one-tenth of the price! That's $100 to $200 or so versus $1000 to $2000 for a comparable quality portrait from photo done by hand. As artists who have worked with many clients to create commissioned portraits from photos, I know that there is an inevitable anxiety over what the outcome will be. Our online proof approval process then, is the second distinct advantage to the digital versus hand-painted art, besides the price. It helps to remove the anxiety and allows the patron a more collaborative role if desired, to be sure that they are able to get exactly what they want in the portraits from photos process. The proofing system allows us to be confident that we will be delivering an heirloom quality piece of art that you are already comfortable with, so that our unconditional satisfaction guarantee isn't really that much of a risk on our part. Something that was a lot harder to offer after 20 or more hours had been spent on a traditional commissioned portrait from photo.

What is involved in getting a photo on canvas? We take your digital upload and have an artist properly size the file for our very individualized approach which is a multi-step oil painting from photo process that creates artwork with blend of filters that alters your actual image to look like a cross between an oil painting from photo and a watercolor with sketch work underneath. This first proof is often exactly what the customer is looking for. But with our proofing system, we invite you to request revisions that make the approach more realistic, more like an oil painting from photo and less like the looser watercolor approach. Or it may be the other way around, your individual preference being a less photographic approach with more brushstrokes. We are also able to customize the image by changing the background, retouching things out or combining images. These are all variations possible with the painting technique, but we can also retouch images that are to receive the PhotoReal technique. This is where we literally put your photo on canvas without adding any brushstrokes or altering the realism other than any requested retouching or color and contrast balancing that we feel will enhance turning pictures into art.

Some of the gallery examples (pets, weddings, families & children) are portraits from photos, but it really depends on the nature of the original photograph. Another consideration besides the degree of realism preferred is whether a more casual or formal portrait from photo is desired. We can create a more traditional 'cloud-like' portrait background instead of the one in your original photograph. Another trick that has been popular in creating portraits from photos is to place the pet or person in an outdoor setting instead of the dated or improperly lit interior one. In order to turn your pictures into art we really need a little input from you have any preconceived ideas about what will make it the best photo on canvas possible. We truly want you to be thrilled with the results in the hopes that you will proudly display your photograph to painting and tell others where you got it!

While a true oil painting from photo might cost ten times as much as we charge, we also know that the average person viewing it in your home won't know the difference. Another question about this process is about permanence. An oil painting from photo will last for centuries if properly cared for, and so can our paintings since they are produced using light-fast archival pigments on quality cotton canvas.

Perhaps one of the most satisfying things about your getting a portrait from photo done, especially if it is a photo you have taken, is the collaborative effort between us. We are just the facilitators, YOU are the artist! We may help enhance the artwork, but it is essentially your vision and image that brings portraits from photos to life. So whether you want the realism of an oil painting from photo or the free brush stokes of a looser approach, we can make your memories into art!