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[prstudio]

Ok, this should be in Drawing and Design,

but I need fast attention...

If you were to design for a banner that was 3 feet tall and 8 feet wide...

How would you go about doing that to ensure picture quality?

I've done large things before, but not that large...

CMYK color and all that, but he wants some photo quality stuff in it as well...

thoughts are appreciated

i just got this order and dont have long to fill it

From my experience, a lot has to do with the quality of the printer- and etc...

steer me straight or get banned by phil

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[lostinbeta]

Create at a higher resolution so the quality can be better preserved.

I think....

[reverendflash]

I would do it in either InDesign/Quark/PageMaker ...

since it is going to be printed...

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[lava]

Illustrator all the way baby... should fill up your artboard.

[eilsoe]

make sure you have lot's of ram... :sure:

[mlk]

well, do it in a vector format and save it as a vector format that the print company can use - that way it's a lossless format...

[asphaltcowboy]

maybe break it up into sections so that your pc will actually continue running :sure:

[Kitiara]

Vector, without question... That's the only way I can think of that lets you enlarge the image without losing any quality. :)

So I'm with these guys - Illustrator or Quark. :)

[eilsoe]

do it in paint, and I'll give you a little gold star... :P

[Kitiara]

Do it in Paint and I'll quit my job and let you have it. :P

The power of MS Paint (eh Asphalt? ;) )

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by Kitiara
The power of MS Paint (eh Asphalt? ;) ) lol, dont get meh started :P

[TheOrangeOne]

um, ive done done some large printing before. Where is the banner going to be positioned? IF its high up, i wouldn't worry too much about the quality.

One thing i have done before is to get the photo and apply the 'smart blur' filter. Then import into flash and trace bitmap to vectorise it.

good luck with it. :thumb:

[teet]

but he wants some photo quality stuff in it as well...

i don't know if vector is the way to go???

splitting up the image into smaller ones like asphalt suggested may be the best solution.

-teet

[dessoya]

CMYK color and all that, but he wants some photo quality stuff in it as well...

i think in this size u have to handle it in vector, since bmp-format will pixel your *** away on this size :chinaman:

what kind of photo quality does he want? a picture???
u must have a photo with a resolution of 10000x6000 to ensure photo quality :crazy: :crazy:

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[Yeldarb]

with a high quality camera, you can get pictures at high resolution at about 2 feet... i think... so as long as the whole background isn't a picture, you should be able to use imported photos from a good digital camera. another idea would be taking a lot of high quality pictures and pasting them together. definitely vector is the way to go with the non photo stuff :)
good luck :P

[prstudio]

thanks everyone-

hey if i do this in ms paint, do i get the gold star by my name- you know kind of like the moderator k only a gold star?

ill do it if I can get the star there-


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Thanks everyone! The banner is for a rock band- it will be up at their venues. The logo is in photo format as I made some killer effects on it- however I think I will play around with the trace bitmap function and vector- I got an idea, now I just have to wait until I get off work to try it... network administrators with design skills...always have to wait until after work...hehehe.

[SureShot]

Well I do a lot of printing here at work and have done some big posters before and much the same as everyone else has said, there is nothing better than doing it as vector. Unfortunatly that is not always a possibility since pictures are always involved so my advice would be to make sure you do the design at 150 to 300 dpi and make sure the photos are at least that big as well. I have never tried the flash thing, I might give that a shot and see how it works out :)

The bigger the picture, the better the quality - no doubt about it. Try and redo the logo but make it huge... as big as you can. That way you will have it for anything you need to do in the future.

[prstudio]

well i got the original hypereffect picture into flash and got the thing traced bitmapatized quite nicely...took the computer forever to process it lol; but I got it, and it sure doesn't look bad

now tonight Ima import it into illustrator for sizing.

Thanks for the tips guys; anything else you can think of, please let me know!

[kh3mical]

go to a banner shop, then give them the images. also, if u dont do that it will be pretty hard to print