The walls in your home must reflect your personality with the framed prints of art or other photographs. You may prefer rooms with themed frames adorning the walls. You have such a huge choice, from nature to animals and birds and other human-interest art. With businesses moving to the internet, you now have the luxury of picking up the prints from online sources.
There are UK-focused eCommerce platforms selling photo prints of diverse varieties. Six of them have been discussed in this article - Shutterstock, Pixabay, Art UK, Wallart-direct, Etsy and Wayfair. You may go to any of these sites and pick your print.
Shutterstock boasts of over 300 million photos, illustrations and vectors on its platform. All these are royalty-free which means you don’t have to worry about the image on your wall being suddenly found illegal by someone. The site has a subscription-based method for downloading images to your computer. These subscriptions are limited by both the period as well as the number of images allowed to be downloaded. At the lowest side, you can pay around £39 for downloading 50 images over a year. The other option is to pay the same amount every month and download 50 images per month. The images can be downloaded in JPEG format. The site allows you to make a collection first and then hit the download button. There are different size options as well. Since their collection is very vast, you may have to spare a lot of time to browse through all the categories and choose the photos you wish to download.
Hosting over two million free photos on their platform, Pixabay has grouped them into four topics at the top, Popular, Latest, Upcoming and Editor’s Choice. Once you choose one of these, you have more categories of images, vector graphics, photos and illustrations. Pixabay also has videos on its platform. You can then choose the orientation, the size you desire the photo to be displayed and the colour. There are several categories with a dropdown alphabetical listing starting with animals and architecture and going down to travel and vacation.
All images on Pixabay are copyrights-free but come with the Pixabay exclusive licence. The significant feature here is that the site allows you to use the images without assigning any credit to the original creator of the image. You can use them for commercial purposes too. The only restriction is you cannot use their images to offer on another similar platform. That would be a violation of the licence terms.
You can order photo prints from Art UK. They have a large collection of paintings, portraits and other arts. The website describes itself as a charitable institution and the collections by selling the prints on its website go towards their projects to promote art in the UK. They are linked to over 3,200 British art galleries and museums. In terms of numbers, the Art UK website carries around 200,000 oil paintings.
While the prints you order for framing and hanging on the walls inside your home have no strings attached, the use of the prints for commercial use needs to enter into a licence agreement with Art UK. The actual selling of prints is carried out by the Art UK Shop within the Art UK website. So browse through the shop, pick the prints you like the most and place the order. Art UK undertakes to pack the prints and send them to you through Royal Mail.
Wallart-direct is another interesting site to order photo prints for framing and hanging on the walls of your home. Interesting because they sell canvas prints, art posters and wall murals with the display on their website under different rooms. This means you can click on Living Room to go to the prints recommended for that room while Nursery will take you to that appropriate collection. You have prints for the bedrooms, kitchen, boys room and girls room as well.
You also have a huge range of colours to select from. They have a style-based listing that includes Vintage, Modern, Funky and Retro and so on. The total collection exceeds over a million. Wallart-direct undertakes to package the prints safely once you have made the payment online and ship them through a courier to your address. The packages are insured for damages in transit.
Etsy is a very popular global online marketplace that allows independent sellers to offer their handcrafted products for sale. The platform has its own collections as well. If you open their Prints page under Art and Collectibles, you will have a staggering 3 million prints on display running into several hundred pages. You can browse through the categories and place orders for the prints you like.
You can find digital prints for as little as £4 and some at as much as £70 even. They have categories like music and movie posters and prints of etchings and carvings. Each of these categories may be unique in their own way and offer you a huge choice to select your prints from. The rest of the processes like making the payments for your order, shipments by Etsy, etc. are very similar to what you will find in any eCommerce platform.
Wayfair is a UK-focused site with multiple products for your home like furniture and home décor items. There is a separate section Wall Art where you will find photo prints of different varieties displayed. You can click on options like posters and paper wall art and children’s wall art to canvas wall art and photography. The sheer variety of prints on offer could be mindboggling.
There is a section called art prints. Wayfair offers free delivery anywhere within the United Kingdom if your order value is more than £40. Their website has a section called Ideas and Advice that offers suggestion to decorate your home. You may pick up some ideas for your home as well, apart from placing your order for the prints.
You can order or download the prints from any of these websites and then send them for framing to /. They specialise in framing and mounting of prints whether they are paper prints or canvas prints.
Article Posted: 17/07/2020 11:27:57