[flikflak]

Hi

Im pretty new with digital art, but I think i can do a cool picture, that I would like print out in a big format, i.e. DIN A1. Now, I have three questions about that:

1. How must I set up Photoshop, for painting such a huge pic?

2. Where can I let print out it in i good quality?

3. What does this cost?

Thanks for your help in advance!

flikflak

PS: Sorry for the bad english...

[Matt Elder]

I don't know what size that is as every country seems to have their own paper size convention. Maybe say how big that is in millimetres. The thing that I've found about doing large posters is that as they get bigger, the amount of ram and hard disk space you need increases exponentially. Even big posters that I've seen around Sydney (2m x 1m), when you walk up to them, you can see the individual pixels are quite large. Thus it depends upon your purpose.

I would recommend doing a picture at a 'normal' size. Once you are happy with it, then scale it using either the resize wizard in ph (under the help menu) or changing the image size (under the image menu). Thus while you are working on it, your computer and efficiency are working optimally.

hope that was of some help.

[Duracel]

btw@
"I don't know what size that is as every country seems to have their own paper size convention"
I think, englishspeaking countries(especially the USA) have a stupid compulsion never to change there things, even if they are not as good, to a worldwide standard. In all european countries the "Din-Norm" is exceptet and everybody is knowing it!


So far, Din-A1 is ca. 800mm*600mm

So my question at this will be, how large in pixels have to be the picture, to see no pixels at the poster. Its, i think the same question, like if you normal print your pictures, but in a level higher

[flikflak]

Thanks for the replies, but there is still a problem... As you know Im very unexperienced with Digital Art. When I printed a "normal sized" picture last time, it looked just like a little color spot on the paper, it was really very small. That is a bit confusing, because it was an 800x600 pixel large image! What resolution should i instead take, for a 800x600mm big poster, or what is "normal size"? (No, I didnt thought, that 800x600 pixel are 800x600mm, just a coincidence )

flikflak

[wootkoos]

I think I know what your asking for. Your speaking in terms of pixel X pixel demensions. When your doing work that will be printed you want to work in a metric measurement. When you create a new canvas in Photoshop it has some options you can set (see image at end of message) You can change the pixels into print size measurements, such as inches or centimeters. The resolution of the image can depend on the type of printer your going to be printing to. In most cases the highest they will require is 300 dpi. A computer monitor uses 72 dpi so in terms of pixels a higher resolution image (300 dpi) will be considerablly more pixels than a lower dpi image set at the same print size (be it inches, cm, or mm) I hope that helps some!

[flikflak]

Thanks, that helps alot! I think I see now the relationship between these options. To find the right size in pixels must then also be trial and error...