Help with creating a poster in Photoshop 1

[Chadurban]

I am a Web Designer and use Photoshop quite a bit, but have never really had to create much for actual print. I am creating a poster which would be 56.5cm across and 72cm down. I started creating it at half that size at 300 DPI so when it is printed at full size, final DPI will be 150. Just wondering if this would be sufficient?

I also have another question about setting the bleed for this project. I understand the purpose of it and that bleed should be set to be 1/4" or so but I do not know how to do it. Can anyone give me step by step instructions in how to do this in Photoshop. Do I make the size of the project 1/4" larger on all sides then set up guides or do I keep it the same size and just put guides at the 1/4" marks? I'll will be sending the final project as a TIFF file to the printers when it is complete. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[blueark]

With large format printing, you can usually get away with much lower resolution than normal. Many large format printers have a lower line screen, and even if they don't, people will be looking at your work from a greater distance than normal, so it'll be fine.

For bleed, just increase the canvas size and tell your printer what you've done. Often, they'll just put your TIFF file into a Quark document or similar. If you just use guidelines, they may not even see them, so communication is important.

 

[SPYDERIX]

For bleeding you set the canvas to be bigger than the printable area. Then move your guides in so they are the printable area to give you an idea where you need text to end etc. Then when the printers print it it will say something like "this is larger than the printable area clipping will occur" they say yes and make sure it's centered both vertically and horizontally and there you have a bleed.

As for your first question it's your decision what's sufficient enough. It all depends what purpose this will be for. If this is a high quality poster for advertising etc then you should go at least 300 DPI. Simply create your canvas at your dimensions and 300 DPI and it will auto-calculate the ammount of pixels needed.

Hope this helps!

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