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Review: Canvas Canada

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Canvas Print vs Digital on iPad

So today I got my first Canvas print in! The photo I choose to print was my Rocks & Lake Louise photograph. I had been looking around for a long time to find a good canvas printer; as many photographers like to print on canvas them selves, so printers are scarce. The high end Pro stores cost a lot of money, so I was looking for a worthy alternate. I found Canvas Canada from Country Keepsakes out of  Newfoundland, Canada.

I started with uploading a hi-res photo to their website and then a business day later they sent me a PayPal invoice to pay for my print. After that there was not much communication until the shipping notice about 2.5 weeks later. Because I wanted to know of their process I was sending communications throughout the waiting period. They advised me that there process takes about 2 weeks to do plus shipping. My photo was delayed because an issue they had with their stretcher bar, but only by 2 days.

I bought a 24×16″ print on canvas with a mirrored edge and with shipping cost me around $75, which is an AMAZING DEAL! It shipped withing 3 business days as well so very fast turn around!

I got the product today it shipped in a custom built foam core box to project the print and the print was inside wrapped in brown paper to protect even further.

I looked at the print and was instantly stunned! The quality of the work is AMAZING! Perfect edging on the photo, the mirrored edge looks amazing, the stretcher bar is nice and strong, AND they even took the car to put on wall dimples and a hanging piece. Needless to say I AM IMPRESSED!

I highly recommend this company they were very friendly the cost is low, the quality is high and the photos look exactly like the digital I uploaded.

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The Future Of Web Design

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Leaf Corner Boxes have a meaning and a reasoning behind them. A Leaf corner box means a movement in the direction of greener future. It is called a Leaf Corner Box because it resembles the shape of a leaf. Now for the reasoning about the box.

Our Eyes read left to right in most countries. The top left rounded corner starts out the box telling our eye to follow “around” the edge. The hard corner tells use to go down, then down to the next rounded corner this tells us go back to the left side and the hard corner ends the content block. When used with contrast and another box below our eye drops down and starts again.

So when we think of a user as scanning the page, instead of reading the page (because if they are reading they are going l to r and down as they go)They see the content of the box as if they were to read it, they get to the end and the box says “Hey Eye go back to the other side nice and smoothly” and the eye sees the end and goes down to the next content block. The bottom right corner once again instructs the eye to go back to the beginning instead of a hard corner leaving the eye to exit on the right and being forced back to the left to start “reading”/seeing the next box.

The corners can also be switched around depending on how you want your user to scan your content. If you are fixated on the user reading your content switch the corners around telling the eye to start at the sharp/high contrast point and continue down the box as the rounded corner goes >>>>\/\/ then they will exit your content on the right, then going to the sidebar. Good for sites who need their content read then a course of action taken after it has been read instead of emphasizing on the next chunk of content.

Hope this makes sense

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