Poster

[lee wilson]

Hi people,

I have been commisioned to produce a poster advertisement for a design/fashion orientated clothes shop, the dimensions will be 6 x 3 foot, just wondering if anyone had any tips for designing for this type of industry and at this type of size.

I have not designed anything close to this size before and I am starting to run into a few types of problems:

1. How the hell do I make make my images look less pixelated at this size, I have shot the photos at the highest res. my digital camera will allow (2048 x 1536) but it still looks pretty bad against a large canvas.

2. Should I limit my artwork (in detail) considering that its a shop window display poster?

3. I am competent in Illustrator as well as Photoshop, with it being a large format poster, would it be best to produce something in Illustrator so that I can resize it, whilst retaining smooth edges?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

[LenHewitt]

Lee,

Using Illustrator where possible would be a good idea, and keep any raster
elements relatively small. A poster that size will not be viewed from 10
inches <g>...so you should be able to get away with 100 - 125 ppi for any
raster elements, which would give you a raster image of about 18" x 9" from
that camera with no interpolation.

[LenHewitt]

CF,

>>Is there a good ration of DPI to Focal Point? <<

No, not really, but go and have a close look at any billboard. You will be
surprised at just how low-rez they are....

[Patty Clarke]

Lee,

I would also think it would be prudent of you to talk to the printer that will be producing the actual poster. Perhaps their process would require a certain "end-product" format for your file.

Patty

[lee wilson]

Sorry r_harvey... I work on both platforms and respect the views of both, I know people don't like double posting so i'll not do it in future :)

[Harold Morgan]

Enlargement tip: Create an action that will enlarge the image by 10% at a
time. Enlarging in small increments like this yields superior results to
enlarging to the finished size once.

"lee wilson" <lee@clearworld.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1dea4767.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI...

> Hi people,
>
> I have been commisioned to produce a poster advertisement for a

design/fashion orientated clothes shop, the dimensions will be 6 x 3 foot,
just wondering if anyone had any tips for designing for this type of
industry and at this type of size.

>
> I have not designed anything close to this size before and I am starting

to run into a few types of problems:

>
> 1. How the hell do I make make my images look less pixelated at this size,

I have shot the photos at the highest res. my digital camera will allow
(2048 x 1536) but it still looks pretty bad against a large canvas.

>
> 2. Should I limit my artwork (in detail) considering that its a shop

window display poster?

>
> 3. I am competent in Illustrator as well as Photoshop, with it being a

large format poster, would it be best to produce something in Illustrator so
that I can resize it, whilst retaining smooth edges?

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

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