With box canvas prints the default option that many people want to achieve is to have a wrapped edge. Here the image continues around the side of the canvas and makes use of the 3d element of canvas prints that cannot be achieved with any other way of presenting and displaying pictures. This works well with pictures where the centre of interest is towards the middle of the picture and where there is plenty of image on the edges that can be used to form the border. However, up to a third of a picture may be used to create this effect and this can create unwanted effects. Wrapping a landscape with a narrow sky can result in most of the sky disappearing over the top of the canvas. Where important details lie towards the edge on the left or right they can end up sitting on the edge or partially disappearing around the side. If this is a problem there is an approach that preserves the wrapped effect but allows you to keep the entire image on the front surface this is often called a mirrored effect. Here elements near the edge of the canvas print are duplicated and used to create the edge of the canvas. These strips around the canvas are then reversed to create the mirror image of the picture on the edge of the box canvas

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What size print can I expect?
Mobile phone cameras, especially earlier ones produce quite small pictures with less than 500 pixels in width and can usually only be blown up to around 16cm by 12. They are designed to produce good snapshots and were not meant to be create much larger prints. Three or four mega pixel cameras produce file sizes that allow prints up to approximately 24 inches and to produce much larger prints requires larger files still requires a photo with thousands of pixels. To produce a large canvas print 90 cms wide requires at least 3600 pixels which an 8 to 10 mega pixel camera can provide. However the mobile phone camera image size continues to increase and more recent phone have up to 8 mega pixel cameras in them which can produce large canvas prints.

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