84x84 board help
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- ksv1230
you can place a psd in the file.
- monospaced0
Just use the Photoshop format
- canoe0
it's 84 inches high and 35 inches wide more or less...
Right now I have a 600 MB tiff of the image and putting it in IND... I understand that I can probably create a hi-res PDF that is a smaller file size, but if they want the raw IND files what should I do to have the tiff smaller and include transparency... all I know is PNG and I'm sure that format is not good for print. Any advise on this large format print job is helpful for my pixelated self.
- cant you link to the file externally to reduce the IND file size?albums
- you are linking (placing) right?monospaced
- vaxorcist0
Retail POP .. will it be right next to the cash register? in a location where you stand right next to it? or more like up on a wall where you're 10-20 feet away? Viewing distance determines ppi you can get away with, hence billboards with 12x8 at 300 being ok.. you're 90 feet away!
- ksv1230
Also call printer, they may have specifics for you when supplying art work. I remember back in the day doing huge billboards, with 12x8 300dpi images.
- canoe0
So I have the image blown up from the galactic forces of the onOne software. I circumvented my graphic like a jedi and punched it out like Tyson.
So should I slap this client-driven drop shadow on the image in PS or IND?
TNX
- not fun working with 600MB files on this two year old MBP - I always imagined it would flycanoe
- I'm outmonospaced
- you're so IN right now you don't even know it - that's how in you arecanoe
- client driven drop shadow from hell! you go and have more fun!vaxorcist
- canoe0
Thanks mono!
- I'm not saying that fractal upscaling isn't awesome though... because it is. Always worth looking into.monospaced
- canoe0
And what client wants work completed on the fucking 24th?
- monospaced0
They'll look fine, actually, this is how it's been done since the day photographs were printed at large scale decades ago. 300dpi is really just the benchmark for crisp print, but it's not realistic to expect it at that scale.
- do the math, he's looking at sub 28ish dpi after the enlargementalbums
- thank you mono, you're not so bad after all.canoe
- basically, 300dpi is great in books where people are inches from the page, but they are much farther in a POSmonospaced
- to put things into perspective, think of the resolution of a big HDTV and its equivalent dpi... it's shitty and looks goodmonospaced
- a 1080p picture is only 3.5x6.5@300dpimonospaced
- fooler0
^
I've used genuine fractals and it works great.
There's also a photoshop action you can make and enlarges the image like 10% then maybe it sharpens it then repeats itself. I'm to lazy to google it for you but I've done with pretty good results and it's free.
- canoe0
^ good?
- albums0
http://www.ononesoftware.com/pro… - formerly Genuine Fractals
- boobs0
iStock photos will look awful no matter what.
- canoe
My client is picking images from istock to go on the back of his retail POP displays... the largest images I see on there are like 12X8 300 dpi.
What should I do? Can those istock images end up looking 'ok' at 500% ??? Me thinks not.