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hdsalinas
Joined: 27 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: Working with large formats |
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Hi to every one
This is my first post in this forum.
I would like your help on something that has been bugging me lately.
We are having some banners printed over vynil. the art work consist of images of women in lingerie and the brand´s logo. Most of the artwork is 28" x 40" but sometimes we work with larger and odd formats (41" x 168"). The shop that we work with told me to send them the artwork for large formats as tiff @ 85 dpi. I never work below 150 and try to be close to 300dpi when possible.
For example I am sending them a file which is 20" x 48" and for me at 85dpi it looks lousy. Although at 100% it looks fine on the screen.
I arrange my images and logos in freehand (working with photohop and large formats on my PC is painfully slow) and then from there I usually export my artwork as EPS with all the images embeded. (this saves me time)
This particular shop said that they dont want the files in eps
format.
Any advice on working with large formats? And should I work @ 85 dpi as the shop suggested?
thanks in advance
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cbadland
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Welcome to the forum.
Follow the printing shop’s advice. Since large vinyl banners are usually viewed from a few feet away or more, the 85 ppi will be fine. (Billboards are usually 9 ppi!)
A picture’s resolution is not based in its ppi, that just describes how large the pixels will print. True resolution is in the number of pixels making up the image. Your file, 20” X 48” @ 85 ppi, Is 4000 X 1700 pixels. That should be fine. |
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hdsalinas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Thank you,
Also, is there a way to set my screen so when viewing an image at 100% in photophop, it is exactly 100% (ie, if you would take a real ruler and place it in front of the screen where the photoshop ruler is, both would be at the same scale)
thanks
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cbadland
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Hector,
Not really. You can get close by going View>Print Size. But it is best to rely on View>Rulers or Grid.
(“100% View” in Photoshop means that every pixel in your image is being represented by a monitor pixel. It has nothing to do with the size the image will print. Viewing “Print Size” will not necessarily display your real print size because Photoshop does not know your monitor’s resolution or size. It just guesses.)
-Charles |
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hdsalinas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:12 am Post subject: |
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well whai i did was to play with 100% box until it mathced a real ruler. Turns out that 100% is really 43%.
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cbadland
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Yes, but that 43 percent will only hold true for that file's dimension at that file's ppi.
Percent view for actual print size for other documents may vary |
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hdsalinas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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yor are right It will vary from file to file.
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