Photo Collage Canvas

[DowntonMini]

I'm considering having a photo collage produced on a canvas produced for a charity event I do every year using last years photos so the organizers can auction it off.

I'm looking at using @Tradecanvasprint who I have used in the past and was very happy with the results for the printing.

My question is I took 1050 images at the event and would obviously like to use as many of them as I can without it looking rubbish but how many images would people suggest would look right and are there any templates worth using to help me lay it out easily?

Thanks

 

[Kell]

This may only apply to Photobox, but the software they have allows you to drag as many photos as you want onto the canvas, click a button and it will auto arrange them.

I've found in the past if I try and align them myself on their site then they often end up a mm or so mis-aligned.

The other option is creating a photoshop document and doing it yourself with guides.

As for how many pictures, I'd go with less is more...

 

[DowntonMini]

Thank Kell I'll have a look at Photobox

 

[Kell]

Sorry... scratch that. I thought I'd better check. It does that on the photobooks, but not on the canvas.

 

[Bebop]

I recently put together 50 photos to fit onto an A3 print for my daughter's birthday. I used photoshop to lay them out manually into one big jpeg. I used layers so it was easy to rearrange them.

I think how many photos depends on how big your canvas is, and how big do you need the photos to be? The subject matter might make a difference. Will people need to be able to recognise themselves? 1,000 photos is an awful lot, so they'd have to be pretty small.