How do I get a regular canvas with brush strokes?

I’m not going to do your searching for you, but last time I checked, there were LOTS of places that did this. Google is your friend. It seems there is / was a site named “brushstrokes”.

But here is what I really want to say. I have seen this, and I will admit, I even had a portrait treated to this. Frankly, I think there is a reason it is not something you see a lot. It simply looks goofy. Any elementary school kid in art class would know it is not a painting. It looks just like what it is, a photo with phony brush strokes all over it.

You have to watch out, there are some places that only do a “digital look” of brushstrokes, not even the real thing. But even if the strokes ARE real, they are just splattered on the photo. Look closely at a REAL painting and see how the strokes look. They are of various size and shape and follow the shape of what is being painted.

If you get one of these places to apply brushstrokes, they have no relationship to the photo beneath. It just looks totally wrong and out of place.

The only way this would look decent would be for someone who is VERY GOOD with photo editing software such as Corel Painter to recreate the photo to have the look of a painting, and then someone skilled to take the time to apply brush strokes as they would actually appear if they had been done in an actual painting.

My advice to you is if you have a photography studio, keep it a PHOTOGRAPHY studio. Trying to pass off gimmicky items such as these “brush-stroked” photos just makes you look like an amateur.

If someone wants a REAL painting of their photo, fine, there are REAL painters who will work from a photo to create a REAL painting.

But keep your photography professional and not looking like a cheap gimmick.

My opinion, take it or leave it.

steve

I dont know about the extra brush strokes but I’m a photographer and I have my prints done by DarkwoodGraphics.com They are pretty cheap and their quality is great.