Photo Art People

This photo cannot do this product justice – it’s the whole “photo of a photo” thing.  Photographs make for wonderfully personal gifts – but on their own they can be kind of boring.  Photo Art People will take your photograph and turn it into a wrapped canvas art piece.

The photo you see at left is one that I took, myself, of Livia.  (It’s several months old, so she has more hair than that now.  And a couple of teeth.)  The only thing I did to it before sending was remove the red eye.  (They would have done that, too, if I had not; I just had already done it for the sake of the photo, in general.)  Before printing it onto the canvas, though, they put the photo through a fifteen-point inspection.

In the case of this particular photo, that resulted in their making three distinct changes:

1) They blurred the background so the viewer’s attention can be more fully focused on Livia.  (This is especially good, as the photo was composed pretty well, but she was on our bed when it was taken.  It’s our pillows and stuff in the background!)

2) They brightened the colors.  Unfortunately, you really can’t see this well in my photo-of-the-photo. In fact, the color looks a little flaky.  But I assure you, in real life the color is quite vivid (and not weirdly orange like it looks here)!

3) They added a little around the edges of the picture so that none of my original picture would be “cut off” when they wrapped it around the frame.

The result is a beautiful, large piece of art.  There are other examples on their site that will give you an even better idea of the difference they can make to a snapshot.

These would make great gifts for the grandparents, for new parents, or for the person who “has everything.”

Use coupon code RRedfe30 to get 30% off of a single photo canvas.  (Code cannot be combined with other offers.  Enter code at checkout, and when you click on “update total,” the discounted price will be reflected.)
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Use coupon code 2for1 to get a second (identical) copy free with the purchase of the first at full-price.  (This might be the better option if you’re buying for two sets of grandparents, for instance.)

$79-$235 (undiscounted pricing)

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Disclosure: Photo Art People printed my photo canvas at no charge to me, to facilitate this review.  As always, all opinions are entirely my own.