Custom Pictures
We can also arrange Custom Image Selections: in some cases you may wish to just select a portion of an image, instead of using the whole picture. To put this another way, you might want a certain part of an image removed before we print it.
For instance, there are many master works here by renowned artists such as Mucha, Bonnard, and Beardsley. They were often employed to create advertising posters in the glory days of the Art Nouveau movement. However, you may prefer to have a 'pure' artwork by one of these masters, rather than be able to see the text on the original poster. It is often a simple matter to remove text headers or footers with our digital manipulation software, and the result will therefore appear an original picture rather than a poster. In some cases this makes the image larger in any given frame size as a result, as some extraneous material has been removed.
Art Deco posters can sometimes benefit from this treatment, since if text is removed they can appear strikingly different. Some examples are shown below, to give an idea of what can be done. Bear in mind that we store our images digitally with a massive file size, to enable them to be reproduced if required to very large dimensions – whole-wall size is possible in some cases. In our commercial interior installations we are sometimes asked to create wall-coverings of very large dimension. Therefore, any smaller image than this can easily be edited to change some of its parameters.
On the other hand, you may well appreciate all the character of the original image, advertising blurb and all – it depends! Removing the Bugatti name from one of their images, for instance, would probably render it characterless; so this is an option that can be considered for specific images only.
In some cases you may wish to have the artist's name printed below the work, as is now the custom with limited edition prints (which in art is called a caption): if you have a work by an acknowledged master like Alphonse Mucha, why hide the fact? Just bear in mind that what you see isn't necessarily what you must have – we are of course known for our custom work, and you are more than welcome to take advantage of it. What's more, it will cost you nothing.
Email us with any queries you may have on this topic. Just send: 1. The picture's reference number; 2. The text: Custom image options? We can then reply with some options as to what may be possible.
The master dimension is usually the width, whether or not the image is of portrait or landscape format. Text that may be removed is usually at the top or bottom, so the width stays the same. Sometimes there is a small surround in white or a complementary colour, that is extended at the foot to provide a background for advert text; this can also be removed. Picture elements can also be removed, and the background cloned in so that it is impossible to tell they were ever there. This is after all how newspaper pictures are now manipulated: the pictures you see in the paper often never took place, at least in the form you see; they have had people removed, elements removed or changed, and so on. Or perhaps you didn't know that?
The technology is here: you may use it if you wish.
This marvellous Art Deco landscape railway poster has had the text removed, along with a small grey surround that will of course be replaced by the ivory mount (mat) of the finished framed picture, to create a fine discrete image that majors on severe angularity, colour contrast, and hard lines. The strong horizontal linearity contrasts with the few sudden 25-degree counterpoise angles; subtle minus 5-degree angles echoed throughout control the overall effect; and hard male outlines and colours are relieved by softer female shapes and tones, to create an iconic Art Deco image.
Now we see a mint green and ice white Haute-Savoie place of respite for the Elegant Woman. Firstly, we remove all elements additional to the core image, to produce custom version #1. It seems, though, that there was some attraction to the leaf-green surround in the original, so for version #2 we have kept it. That meant a little more work to replace some surround at the foot where it had to be removed with the text, but now the picture does look right. It should contrast nicely with the ivory of the frame mount.
The question is, can these elegant Art Deco golfing and tennis-playing ladies of Savoy stand alone without their introduction?
Here, the Art Deco Shipping Lines of Hamburg race their steamers through a smoky pink sea to an expectant New York; advertised, it seems, in France?
We wanted to keep the proportions of this striking image much the same, to preserve the 'tall' look of the ships, so that although we completely removed the text at the foot, we didn't do that at the top. Instead, the header was painted over with smoky-pink, through grey, sky. At the foot also, the house badge was removed, and then the artist's signature moved down to the lower right corner. Clever, don't you think?
So: choose your picture - email us - tell us the picture code and what you want - we'll email you back.
In fact, looking closely at the original, we can see that this is how the original artist intended his work to look – see his signature at bottom left of the original work.
The long, thin poster shape has now been correctly reverted to a fine Art Deco original artwork of proper and original proportion.
For instance, there are many master works here by renowned artists such as Mucha, Bonnard, and Beardsley. They were often employed to create advertising posters in the glory days of the Art Nouveau movement. However, you may prefer to have a 'pure' artwork by one of these masters, rather than be able to see the text on the original poster. It is often a simple matter to remove text headers or footers with our digital manipulation software, and the result will therefore appear an original picture rather than a poster. In some cases this makes the image larger in any given frame size as a result, as some extraneous material has been removed.
Art Deco posters can sometimes benefit from this treatment, since if text is removed they can appear strikingly different. Some examples are shown below, to give an idea of what can be done. Bear in mind that we store our images digitally with a massive file size, to enable them to be reproduced if required to very large dimensions – whole-wall size is possible in some cases. In our commercial interior installations we are sometimes asked to create wall-coverings of very large dimension. Therefore, any smaller image than this can easily be edited to change some of its parameters.
On the other hand, you may well appreciate all the character of the original image, advertising blurb and all – it depends! Removing the Bugatti name from one of their images, for instance, would probably render it characterless; so this is an option that can be considered for specific images only.
In some cases you may wish to have the artist's name printed below the work, as is now the custom with limited edition prints (which in art is called a caption): if you have a work by an acknowledged master like Alphonse Mucha, why hide the fact? Just bear in mind that what you see isn't necessarily what you must have – we are of course known for our custom work, and you are more than welcome to take advantage of it. What's more, it will cost you nothing.
Email us with any queries you may have on this topic. Just send: 1. The picture's reference number; 2. The text: Custom image options? We can then reply with some options as to what may be possible.
The master dimension is usually the width, whether or not the image is of portrait or landscape format. Text that may be removed is usually at the top or bottom, so the width stays the same. Sometimes there is a small surround in white or a complementary colour, that is extended at the foot to provide a background for advert text; this can also be removed. Picture elements can also be removed, and the background cloned in so that it is impossible to tell they were ever there. This is after all how newspaper pictures are now manipulated: the pictures you see in the paper often never took place, at least in the form you see; they have had people removed, elements removed or changed, and so on. Or perhaps you didn't know that?
The technology is here: you may use it if you wish.
This marvellous Art Deco landscape railway poster has had the text removed, along with a small grey surround that will of course be replaced by the ivory mount (mat) of the finished framed picture, to create a fine discrete image that majors on severe angularity, colour contrast, and hard lines. The strong horizontal linearity contrasts with the few sudden 25-degree counterpoise angles; subtle minus 5-degree angles echoed throughout control the overall effect; and hard male outlines and colours are relieved by softer female shapes and tones, to create an iconic Art Deco image.
Now we see a mint green and ice white Haute-Savoie place of respite for the Elegant Woman. Firstly, we remove all elements additional to the core image, to produce custom version #1. It seems, though, that there was some attraction to the leaf-green surround in the original, so for version #2 we have kept it. That meant a little more work to replace some surround at the foot where it had to be removed with the text, but now the picture does look right. It should contrast nicely with the ivory of the frame mount.
The question is, can these elegant Art Deco golfing and tennis-playing ladies of Savoy stand alone without their introduction?
Here, the Art Deco Shipping Lines of Hamburg race their steamers through a smoky pink sea to an expectant New York; advertised, it seems, in France?
We wanted to keep the proportions of this striking image much the same, to preserve the 'tall' look of the ships, so that although we completely removed the text at the foot, we didn't do that at the top. Instead, the header was painted over with smoky-pink, through grey, sky. At the foot also, the house badge was removed, and then the artist's signature moved down to the lower right corner. Clever, don't you think?
So: choose your picture - email us - tell us the picture code and what you want - we'll email you back.
In fact, looking closely at the original, we can see that this is how the original artist intended his work to look – see his signature at bottom left of the original work.
The long, thin poster shape has now been correctly reverted to a fine Art Deco original artwork of proper and original proportion.