Problem with large layouts!!!

[emkemner]

Hi,
I'm having a problem with creating large layouts. Here's the senario, I need to make a sign thats 8 foot by 12 foot.
But photo shop wont make an image that big anyways so I scale it down. I tried 2' by 3' but then it has to be blown up 400% and distorts the images. So I went 4' by 6' and now my file size is 900+ megs and eats up all my virtual memory. You can guess what happens then.....So how do I make a small layout that can be blown up with out distorting? Oh by the way I'm using photo shop 7 with windows xp profesional and my comp has 2 gigs of DDR ram. At this point I'm not sure what else to do.

 

[viol8ion]

Can't be done, not with the limitations you are demanding.

You can scale the image size down, but then you would increase the PPI accordingly, that way when the image was scaled up the PPI would decrease and give you good resolution. Regardless of how you do it, you will still have a very large raster file. Raster images by teir very nature will pixelate when you try to scale them up as well as scale up PPI, which results in the app adding made up pixels where there really are none, and that results in a lousy image.

For an image that large you can get away with PPI of 100 - 125 (at full size), you don't need 300PPI which you would use for normal print.

The tool that you should use for this job is CorelDraw or Illustrator. You create the sign with a vector program, and then it can be scaled to any size with noloss of resolution.

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