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  1. How to Photograph Cake

    How to Photograph Cake

    Here at the Parrot Print headquarters, we’ve found ourselves swept up a little in Great British Bake Off fever over the past week. While our talents probably lie more in the eating arena than in the kitchen, we thought it was time to show a little love for cake on our “how to photograph cake” […]

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  2. 5 Photo Apps That Provide Polish For Your Custom Canvas Prints

    5 Photo Apps That Provide Polish For Your Custom Canvas Prints

    If you are the type of photographer that struggles beyond the moment of point and shoot you are certainly not alone.  Thankfully, the wealth of photography apps that are now available give you the tools to create a perfectly polished appearance on images, Here are 5 Photo Apps to help you achieve a professional finish when […]

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  3. Using Bokeh Photography for Canvas Prints

    Using Bokeh Photography for Canvas Prints

    Warmer nights bring with them lots of opportunities for outdoor evening entertaining and the perfect chance to learn some new photography skills by testing out a little Bokeh. As much an art form as a photography technique, bokeh makes a great subject for customised canvas prints. What is bokeh? Translated from the Japanese for ‘blur” […]

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  4. Four End of Term Creative Custom Canvas Prints

    Four End of Term Creative Custom Canvas Prints

    The end of the school term always produces a range of emotions in children and teachers alike and today on the blog we are going to look at how to capture them with the end of term creative canvas prints. Some of these canvas projects make use of images alone, while others draw in familiar […]

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  5. Make a Feature of Your Custom Canvas Prints

    Make a Feature of Your Custom Canvas Prints

    All of our custom canvas prints are supplied on pine gallery films with corner wedges and hidden staples to help make them robust and easy to hang. However, just because they come ready to hang doesn’t mean you can’t have a bit of fun to make a feature framing them creatively yourself. Today’s blog post […]

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  6. Images On Canvas - Reach New Heights

    Images On Canvas - Reach New Heights

    Here in the Parrot Print offices, we’ve been ooh-ing and aah-ing over some fantastic photographs from the National Geographic drone photography competition and whether they would look great, as images on canvas. If you’ve not seen the photos, you can check them out in this article from the BBC. Photographers took these stunning aerial shots […]

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  7. Creating Faux Vintage Photo Prints for Canvas

    Creating Faux Vintage Photo Prints for Canvas

    In the world of interiors, vintage is very much in vogue. From old-style telephones through to retro prints for the walls, adding a little something from a bygone era is a fun way to explore the development of art and design.  One of the things we’ve seen pop up in magazines and online home-ware stores […]

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  8. Personalised Canvas Print Ideas For The Playroom

    Personalised Canvas Print Ideas For The Playroom

    Personalised canvas print ideas for the playroom With the school holidays in sight, parents will soon have their hands full entertaining kids of all ages. Unfortunately, we can never be too sure of the weather here in the UK, so we’ve put together these artwork ideas to help you make the playroom a place of fun […]

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  9. Customised Prints - Grand Ideas Inspired by Le Tour

    Customised Prints - Grand Ideas Inspired by Le Tour

    Yorkshire was buzzing with the sound of sporting adventure this weekend as The Tour De France got started in Leeds and continued on through Yorkshire, providing plenty of interesting photo opportunities, that can be turned into customised prints. At the last count, close to 26,000 Instagram photographs had been marked with the #tourdefrance hashtag and […]

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  10. Your Graduation Photo Canvas Ideas

    Your Graduation Photo Canvas Ideas

    It’s an exciting few weeks for university students with many receiving their degree results and many more preparing for graduation ceremonies. Graduation shots are among the most common photographs you’ll find adorning the walls of people’s homes in the form of graduation photo canvas ideas. Some of these photographs will be images shot by the […]

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