Artwork Reproduction · Fine Art Scanning · Up to 3m × 2m
Brushstroke-accurate 3D capture of your original — and museum-grade giclée editions that read as paintings, not flat prints.
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Artwork Reproduction Scanning
Love to Frame is one of the few UK studios offering true 3D artwork reproduction scanning. Our flatbed 3D scanner captures every brushstroke, palette-knife ridge and paper grain on originals up to 3m × 2m, at resolutions up to 1200 DPI — the foundation for giclée editions that read as faithfully as the original.
Calibrated colour, preserved shadow and highlight detail and smooth tonality mean your reproductions, archival files and limited editions hold up under the closest inspection. We work with painters, illustrators, photographers, galleries and collectors across the UK who want to reproduce, sell and protect their work.
Why Reproduce?
Reproduction is a strategy, not just a copy — giclée editions widen your audience and build income without competing with the original. Our limited edition giclée prints service covers edition sizing, hand-numbering, certificates of authenticity and Hahnemühle papers — all from the same master file we scan here.
The Scanning Service
Calibrated colour, large-format capacity and 3D capture — everything we do is built around faithful reproduction of your originals.
High-Resolution Scanning
Professional high-resolution art scanning for artists, photographers and collectors who want to preserve, reproduce or archive their work in exceptional detail. Our state-of-the-art scanner delivers stunning, colour-accurate digital files.
Colour Accuracy
The scanner handles 36-bit colour — capable of capturing 68 billion shades. After gamma, white and black point correction, the best 24-bits are outputted, ensuring scans benefit from low noise and rapid transfer with no loss of quality.
2D & 3D Scanning
Our revolutionary 3D scanning mode opens new opportunities in fine art printing — capturing paper surface textures, art materials such as acrylic and oil, and any other textured pieces to give the perception of depth.
Every Discipline
We work with artists from many disciplines — painting, drawing, watercolour, pen and ink, illustration, collage and other mixed media works on paper. We also scan photographic prints and heirloom family photographs to digitise, optimise, restore or preserve.
Large Format
The flatbed takes paintings, posters and panels far beyond A0, delivering edition-ready files in TIFF, JPEG or PDF. For capacity details, handling and courier advice for oversized work, see the dedicated guide.
large format art scanning up to 3m × 2mThe Scanning Service
Calibrated colour, large-format capacity and 3D capture — everything we do is built around faithful reproduction of your originals.
High-Resolution Scanning
Professional high-resolution art scanning for artists, photographers and collectors who want to preserve, reproduce or archive their work in exceptional detail. Our state-of-the-art scanner delivers stunning, colour-accurate digital files.
Explore Reproduction Services
Glare-free scanning and giclée reproduction of your original oils.
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Signed & numbered giclée editions from your master file.
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Museum-grade scanning, archives and editions for institutions.
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3D Painting Scanning
Traditional photography flattens texture. Painters lose more than colour when their work is shot on a camera — oil ridges, palette-knife marks, gesso, cold wax and mixed media all read as noise or baked-in shadow on a DSLR file, and a flat file makes a flat print.
Our 3D flatbed scanner works differently. A light source, mirrors, lens and CCD sensors capture the surface topology alongside the image, so the master file records how the paint sits on the support as well as what it looks like. Reproductions keep the perception of depth — brushstrokes catch the light the way they do on the wall.
The mode earns its keep on thickly-applied oil and acrylic, palette-knife work, cold wax and mixed media, but quieter surfaces benefit too: cold-pressed watercolour tooth, canvas weave and hand-made papers all carry their character through to the giclée. Even flat works on smooth paper gain from the scanner's colour accuracy. Bring the original to our Timperley studio or send it by insured art courier; we scan it flat with 3D texture mode enabled, calibrate colour against the original, and you sign off a colour-managed soft proof — with a physical test strip on your chosen paper if you want one. You receive TIFF/JPEG masters, and we archive a colour-managed copy so future editions never need a re-scan.
Watercolour & Acrylic Reproduction
Watercolour reproductions live and die by the paper. Cold-pressed tooth, hand-made deckle edges, the faint tint of a hot-pressed sheet — a photograph blurs them; a scan preserves them. Deckle edges are captured in full and can be kept as part of the print or trimmed away for the edition, whichever suits the work.
Acrylic sits at the other end of the medium spectrum: dense, opaque and often physically raised off the surface. The same scanner captures both faithfully — 36-bit colour resolves the subtle gradients of transparent washes that photography clips or posterises, while 3D texture mode records heavy-body ridges without flattening them.
For the edition itself we match the giclée paper to the character of the original — Hahnemühle German Etching for cold-pressed watercolour, Photo Rag for hot-pressed sheets, Bamboo for warm-toned works. Bring the original unmatted and unframed if you can; if it's already framed, the workshop can de-mount it carefully and re-fit it after scanning.
Where We Work
The scanner lives at our Timperley workshop, and artists visit from across Greater Manchester and Cheshire — with originals arriving UK-wide by insured art courier. Find your local page:
Artwork Reproduction FAQs
Turnaround, sizes, pricing, file formats — the questions artists, photographers and galleries ask us most.
Artwork reproduction scanning is the process of digitising an original painting, drawing or print at very high resolution so it can be faithfully reproduced as giclée prints. At Love to Frame we use a 3D scanner that captures both colour and surface texture — so brushstrokes, paper grain and impasto detail are preserved, not flattened.
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Bring your original to the workshop, or send us the details — we'll scan, colour-match and proof your artwork ready for editions, archives or sale.
