any experience?
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- fiver0
thanks guys. i figured most of this. my machine will be chugging along the next few days i guess....
- meok0
have you tried contacting the vendor?
- whatsup0
use tiling
- mydo0
photoshop. design at 100%, 300 DPI, and save as a layer tiff, you'll be good to go.
- nointeliboy
- a 50meter 300dpi file is crazinessinteliboy
- seriously insane to go that high res.. would be 4500x45000!Thelonious_Funk
- LOLauxillary
- akrokdesign0
if you do really large stuff, no need to do 300 dpi. it's not meant to be read or viewed at a closed distant. as low as 150dpi might work.
- neue75_bold0
Bend your knees and keep your back straight...
- VikingKingEleven0
you work at 25% scale @ 300dpi or in vector.
- utopian0
crickets
- inteliboy0
At super large scales like that - setup as 1/10th of the size in indesign/illustrator.
- nthkl0
I've done a few posters for skyscraper building sides, you usually work in proportion to the final output, but smaller in scale. Like mentioned above, you might work at 11x17 inches (example) but at 300dpi. You have to call the printer, they will provide specs and usually a final illustrator template to insert your image into. Or they'll just take a tiff/psd/review jpg. Ultimately, they'll upscale to your final specs.
Request a PDF Proof online to review the color to assure nothing is exceedingly off when converting to ink.
On this type of gig, it's all about working with the right printer that has experience working at this scale.
Also, if your PSD gets to be larger than 2gb, you'll have to switch to PSB, large document format. CS5 on a 64bit towerand 16gb of ram will be your best friend in the next few days.