30in x 40in Killing PS
- Started
- Last post
- 15 Responses
- statik
Hey folks...
Designing a poster 30in x 40in, final needs to be 300 dpi...etc in Photoshop..(vectors dont cut it for me here)
It's absolutley killing my machine, I've dealt with the slow, memory crunching antics so far, but saved, closed, re-opened and it takes around 20 mins to open..well, maybe longer, I couldnt handle to wait..
Does anyone have any advice for smoother large format designing...apart from get a more powerful machine?
I'd love to design it at half res, then just bump it up, it wouldn't look great but my stress levels would be far healthier....
Any tricks of the trade?..or sack it?
Cheers
- epikore0
You can get away with 200dpi for a poster.
- d_rek0
Saving the document as a large document format will help reduce save and load times.
- Horp0
1. Can you do all the comping and everything on a greyscale image then colour it afterwards perhaps? I've done that in the past on insanely large files.
2. Are you working in RGB rather than CMYK? Cuts file sizes.
3. If you work at half resolution, then when you finish and flatten the file, blow it up to 400% and pass over some rudimentary smoothing such as a subtle gaussian blur etc and just retouch any obvious jagging, then reduce it down by 50% back to where it should be that will not look unduly low res.
3. Keep an archive of save offs and keep Flattening bunches of layers as you go to minimse file size. You have the archive versions if you have to go back.
4. Purge your cache regularly
5. Specify a large format project document
6. Close down unneccesary apps.
- d_rek0
can also set your performance preferences to use more HDD space if you don't have a lot of memory.
- Horp0
Or just lean right in close to your monitor so it all just LOOKS really big.
- statik0
Quality feedback, thanks alot.
I'll definately be using some of these techiques!Cheers
- Ewak0
who told you to do a 30x40 poster at 300dpi in photoshop? Use photoshop and indesign and you could probally work at a 50%-75% scale
- Not_Ghey0
On a PC or Mac?
- statik0
I chose photoshop as the tool for the job but the project specs are;
30inx40in 300dpi CMYK
- yeah, I'd use indesign in conjunction w/ photoshop.krisscott21
- +1monospaced
- statik0
PC
- probably most of the problem right thered_rek
- hamonospaced
- wrong.
Mac at work and PC at home, they both do the job equaly.dyspl - IT IS THE PC DUDE!Not_Ghey
- monospaced0
how much RAM, what processor speed, etc...?
- inkpink0
do your image(s) in PS at a workable res, then drop into AI or ID and add any text or vector elements that need to be crisp.
should really work this way regardless of res.
also you could look into res-up apps like genuine fractals to bump the final res more accurately than suggestions above... but again, add your type at the end.
- inkpink0
and def work in RGB until the very last steps.
- Not_Ghey0
IT IS THE PC DUDE!
- dyspl0
did you set up your doc in 8bit or 16bit?
30inx40in looks ok for me (and that way you will be able to rework it if suddenly your client wants another version of it in an other format..)
def use RGB, also because the layer effect & filter don't work the same in cmyk. Once the work is finished, flat your image then use edit > convert to profile.