Banner Size

[Joe.Morgan]

ive only just started working here so i'm limited on what i can use until they buy me my new mac book pro. ill see what i can do... i might have to mission it home for a power nap and grab all my software!

[crazyleaf]

CorelDRAW works too.

[Toon]

Or Freehand!!

[sarah]

Or get the crayolas and some lining paper out if all else fails! ;-)

[Kelly Creative]

Or use magnified glass the banner really only 8" X 3" but the glass makes it look massive.

[james]

If you have to do it in photoshop, then what i've come across is that printers only need the file done at 1/4 size (as long as its at 300dpi). The file is then expanded by 400% making it more like 75dpi. Banners, billboards, etc don't need to be 300dpi like a printed document, as they are viewed from a distance and not held in the hand.

Thats my take on it. If i'm totally wrong, then please correct me!

Joe, i hope this hasn't added to your hangover!

[sara-tyler-reese]

i had to do 6ft x 2 ft banners before for a client and it killed my pc. I got a much better pc after, but it still took forever to do anything in photoshop. i lowered the res from 300dpi to 200dpi and they still looked great, and took a lot less time to render in photoshop.

i would ask your printers / clients if they would except a lower res file. or as joe advised: 300dpi but at a smaller size.

[greg]

Actually - you can use the paths tool in photoshop (pen tool set to paths). This allows you to fake the illustrator vector style- but Illustrator makes this quicker - but since you don't have illustrator use this tut:
http://www.elated.com/articles/paths-and-the-pen-tool/

It is a quick simple fix, oh and why can't you make it 14 by 9 feet in the first place and then .rar it?

--
Greg

[Joe.Morgan]

i gave them the 3 parts to the banner in EPS format and they can size the files to whatever they want... **** doing more work than i have too im too hungover again!

[Toon]

Try this Joe,

"Hi, barman I'll just have an orange juice please"