Review: Artistic Photo Canvas

APC can­vas print — © Copy­right 2010 by William Beem

I had a nice sur­prise when I came home today. There was a box at the door. I knew it wasn’t my shirts from Eddie Bauer (yes, I’m trag­i­cally hip) and I was sur­prised to find out that my can­vas print from Artis­tic Photo Can­vas already arrived. It came in a nice card­board box with a label that said “THIS SIDE UP”, which FedEx con­ve­niently left fac­ing upside-​down.

My walls are bare. I have a few framed pho­tos on my man­tle, but I’ve never got­ten around to get­ting some large prints to hang on the wall. When Scott Kelby posted a dis­count deal with APC, it was hard to resist. 20% off, free ship­ping and a $15 gift cer­tifi­cate for my next order. Then I got busy at work and nearly for­got about it. For­tu­nately, the folks at APC posted some­thing on their Twit­ter account and I caught it. We chat­ted a bit and I decided to give them a try. Hav­ing seen their work at Pho­to­shop World, I was pretty con­fi­dent I’d receive a good prod­uct. So was APC, because they guar­an­teed my satisfaction.

The prob­lem was decid­ing what to print and what size to get. I ended up choos­ing one of my images from a pre­vi­ous Photo Fri­day. You can take a look at it here if you want to see how the dig­i­tal image com­pares to the print (or this photo of the print). Per­son­ally, I think they nailed it.

It’s not just the work on the print itself that impressed me, but also the cus­tomer ser­vice and atten­tion to my order. Beside the chat on Twit­ter with APC (hi, who­ever you are), I also received a call from the gen­tle­man who was work­ing on my print. It seems that the size I chose — 16×20 — wasn’t quite the right fit for my image. He would’ve had to crop part of it. Rather than just assum­ing I knew what I wanted and cut­ting out part of the image, he called and described the issue and gave me some options. I decided to move the order up to 16×24 to accom­mo­date the dimen­sions of my image. Now here it is a day or two later and the print is in my house. Absolutely fantastic.

I’ve been pleased with Artis­tic Photo Can­vas from start to fin­ish and have no qualms about rec­om­mend­ing them to you. My thanks to Scott Kelby for work­ing with APC to pro­vide the dis­count deal to push me over the edge and give them a try, and thanks to APC for great cus­tomer ser­vice and crafts­man­ship. Now I just have to decide what images to send them next time. I have walls to fill-​up. I may put this one on a red wall, though.