PiciScan announce Christmas gift ideas in the form of slide show DVD’s and stretched canvas prints.

Christmas is worryingly approaching fast. Time is running out and so are finances. The team at PiciScan fully understand extra special gifts can be expensive, hard to find and often impersonal. Let PiciScan come to the rescue with two personal, affordable and personalised gift ideas this Christmas.

Whether it’s those old photographs, slides or negatives PiciScan will digitise these and produce an image on stretched artist quality canvas. Available in various sizes with a mortise jointed, 36mm wooden frame, satin sealed and with a 200 year ink guarantee.

With PiciScan’s high resolution scans (1200 dpi from photographs and 2400 dpi from slides and negatives) the canvas prints produced retain their original look and will take pride of place in any living space.

Enjoy your memories on your DVD player with Gift idea 2. From as little as £6.00, PiciScan will scan in photographs, slides or negatives of your choice and create a DVD with optional background music and a personalised DVD and inlay design.

PiciScan based in Kendal, Cumbria but offering a nationwide service scan all sizes of photograph for up to A4 and all sizes of mounted slide and photographic negative. They also convert a variety of different video formats to DVD, including the transfer VHS to DVD.

For all the details on how to order any of the gift ideas, photo scanning or negative scanning, visit http://piciscan.co.uk

Thanks to the purchase of further scanner, PiciScan is proud to announce that they now offer bulk order discounts through their scanning shop website.

Negative scanning now costs as little as 24p a scan. Slide scanning, is now offered from 24p and photo scanning is even less. Photo scanning, for a bulk order of over 2000 photos, now costs just 10p a scan.

The maximum price payable for these three services is still competitive as well. The most you’ll pay to use our slide or negative scanning services is 30p a scan. The photo scanning service costs just 20p.

Do you have a large number of photographs, tucked away in cupboards, the loft or just piled up somewhere? Do you have slides that you barely look at any more? Perhaps you have negatives tidied away in envelopes that you’re no longer sure what they are. Or maybe you have precious memories kept on home videos that are beginning to show signs of wear.

PiciScan can help. They scan all sizes of photograph up to A4 and all sizes of mounted slide and photographic negative and also convert a variety of different video formats to DVD, including the transfer of VHS to DVD.

Just contact PiciScan by phone or email or visit their online shop at http://piciscan.co.uk/ to order slide scanning directly.

Kris Hardy, the acclaimed original artist is pleased to announce new collections have been added to his online gallery.

Always trying to keep his collections fresh and up to date, Kris has added a selection of new work for 2011. And it’s been another bust start to the year for Kris.

Early in February saw kris exhibit at Spring Fair 2011 at the NEC for the first time. Spring Fair showcases the best of British and international design led products. It was a successful show for Kris both in terms of showing his artwork to different audiences and making new connections. “My first Spring Fair was a great experience giving me lots of inspiration and new contacts” Kris adds.

Kris’s canvas artwork graces a varied amount of walls up and down the country from John Lewis customers to local hull businesses and those requesting bespoke commissions. Having appeared on ITV’s 60 Minute Makeover to boot, exhibited at Grand Design Live 3 times, Kris is no stranger to the spotlight.

His very contemporary approach to his artwork style and attitude to artist – client relations is refreshing. The approach he takes with his work is to produce high quality, original acrylic-on-canvas paintings that complement the client’s interior. All artwork is painted to order by Kris himself and comes in standard sizes depending on the painting format. The refreshing approach is highlighted greatly by his comment “I more than happy to do bespoke sizes and colours, as I believe if you want a piece of canvas art for a specific space then you should not have to compromise”.

To view the new acrylic artwork collections added by Kris Hardy, visit http://www.krishardy.com