large banner design
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- cut&taste
Hi, I was asked to design a banner that needs to be 9m long. Is there any way to do that with Illustrator instead of photoshop?
- airey0
yep.
check with the printer but you can do it in either app and you don't actually do the artwork at 100%.
check the printers requirements. it'll save you a massive headache.
- VectorMasked0
what?
of course. I rarely hear of people doing this in photoshop. it's always Illustrator. The 30 banners I've done in my life have been done in illustrator and maybe like 10 of them has some linked artwork created in photoshop.
A 9m long banner would require the earth's collective memory just to export a proof out of it. And your head would explode.
- not entirely true. i've done truck sides in phtoshop as it was a photo montage. yes. a montage.airey
- I've done 3 meter banners and the computer exploded. 4GB of Ram. Slow as hell. The average design machine would struggle.VectorMasked
- yeah, you're not meant to do them that huge though! been there myself.airey
- ukit0
Max size in Illie is 227"x227"
- airey0
also, resolution for larger formats often drops down to 150dpi with no quality drop at all from a usual 300dpi, even if the artwork is at say 15% of final output.
again, check the printer's recommendations.
- Meeklo0
yes, my guess is that the majority of designers will consider this as an illustrator job, not a photoshop one..
but what do I know ?
- akrokdesign0
9 meters = 354.330709 inches
damn!
- airey0
i did a truck side - about 12 mentres, at 10%, 150dpi. that was the recommended and worked perfectly.
- Knuckleberry0
Scales Homey.
- cut&taste0
Yeah, that's what I thought. I only mentioned PS because it's the only one that would allow me to go that far but it was on 72 dpi and I didn't like that.
Thing is, the client is dealing with the printer, so I'll send him a pdf like he asked and let him figure it out.
- alicetheblue0
I've done tons for trade shows, etc .
always 150 dpi
and supplied InDesign files (not 100% :)(as said check for specs from printer)
- ninjasavant0
CorelDraw can do bigger artboards than AI last I remember.
- isakosmo0
interesting. had to do a 3.5 x 2.2 meter banner for my work, to be printed on one single sheet... basically spent a week trying to work with a computer crashing every time i saved. i ended up just slicing the background into small images because i didnt want to drop the resolution but doing it at 1:1... if they ask you to supply it as indesign files, can you still do it at a smaller scale anyone know? dont do much of these so i doubt my way was very efficient, be interested to hear from people who know more
- You may think that insisting working at 1:1 is a good thing for a banner, but it's not.Nairn
- yes you can do at smaller size –say 25% – always print out sample snippet to see how type etc looks. Sometimes I tile the whole thing and put up on wall if its a really important job;-)alicetheblue
- whole banner and put it on wall if its really important job ;-)alicetheblue
- thanks for the reply, need all the advice i can get... project drove me mental and got to do another one soon !!isakosmo