Thanks Capture. Good information. I take mostly beach photos. There isn't a lot of labor for me except driving to the beach, shooting, transferring to my PC, some light editing in LR5, and shoot it off to the canvas company. So I don't have studio costs or some of the other things involved. Its a part time job since I'm already working full time in another field, and I was just hoping to supplement my income and then segue into it becoming full time as I near retirement, which is about a year away. Appreciate your help.

Thank you very much for your feedback.

This is the actual finished canvas.

This is just a display model for advertising purposes, hence the website in the lower corner.

Thanks Captain. This is a new adventure for me but I learn quick. I've noticed some command a 1600% mark-up, but they are generally already established. This is a photo that I have 5 buyers for who want it on canvas. Its 20 X 30 with a .75" wrap. My cost to have it wrapped and shipped was $140.

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I agree. Was simply wondering if there was any industry standard I could gauge the pricing by. From what I've gathered so far in the past few hours doing some online research, a 150% mark-up seems to be what a lot of others agree on. So if a canvas costs me $80 to have made, I would sell it for $200. Again, I'm inquiring as to a general basic industry mark up philosophy without getting into a lot of intricate details. Those I can work out myself, ie hours spent, labor involved, shipping, touch-ups, frames, etc. This is strictly sending my photo to have canvassed by someone like Bay Photo, Canvas On Demand, then selling to interested parties. Thanks

Does anyone have experience selling their prints on canvas or metal? I'm getting a lot of requests for some of my pics to be put on canvas/metal and I'm not sure how to structure the pricing, specifically the mark-up. I know what Bay Photo and Canvas on Demand and Costco charge, but not sure of the % of mark-up since I haven't sold my work before. Is there an industry standard? Any suggestions would be so appreciated. Thanks, Rich

jeep, LR isnt prohibiting me from imported the same images off the same card, windows is.

Disregard. I know what you're referring to now Jerry

RDH, so import Raws directly to LR. I just got LR5 so thanks for the tip.

Thanks George.

Great information. My habit is to format the card once the images on secured on my hard drive. New cards are expensive since I buy the 32GB Extreme Pros from Sundisk.

NEW PROBLEM: So I connect the camera to my PC again with the same card with all the images I already imported, and attempted to import them a second time, and I get the message "No new images were found on this device" Did I miss a step in the process? Won't let me import the images again. Rich

Quick question: I transferred all my images from a memory card onto my computer. The images are still on the memory. If I were to lose any of the images if something like a virus made it to where I couldnt view those images, can I still retrieve the same images from the same memory card a second time?

Cool. I'm in Orange County, California. Are either of them close to me?

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on which online service is best to have your images printed on canvas. I know Costco does it fairly cheap but they told me it would take 2 weeks and I need a much quicker turn around. Thanks.

Thanks Allen. Appreciated.