"DeclanWorld" wrote:
"Joel" wrote in message
"DeclanWorld" wrote:
I’ve been asked to design a sports club banner (for free). The dimensions are 120" X 48". I’ve been working on a PSD with those dimensions at 300dpi but the file is massive and the machine struggles with it ( I have a Hewlett-Packard HP xw8400 Workstation with two 3.00 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors and 3MB RAM).
Any suggestions to make the job run quicker?
So you are working on 24:2 ratio, and most print job should be fine at 150-PPI, and should be fine with JPG format. Or if you save as TIFF then the size could be pretty large.
The largest size I printed is around 36×24" and the size is around 12MB. So yours should be larger than 50-60MB the most (?). And I don’t know if banner needs to be finer than portrait (?)
Quicker? Photoshop loves memory and depending on the OS, if you run Win7 64-bit then it can benefit from lets say 8MB (6MB would do).
Thanks everyone for the advice. Joel, I’ve managed to save a maximum quality JPG at 200 PPI at 12′ x 4′ – the file came to 15MB, so I’m happy with that.
If you need good photo quality and won’t mind to increase the size a little more, you may try "RESIZE" the image by "PERCENTAGE" and it may help with the print. Lets say increasing it to 100% or 150%
I had installed XP 64 bit some time ago to take advantage of the actual 10MB of RAM in the machine but, after some of my other software refusing to run on it, I reverted back to 32 bit.
If I am not mistaken WinXP only recognized around 3MB (?), if more than that then you will have to add some parameter to some thing somewhere I have read several times but I have very short memory.
And if you are not afraid of Win7 then I would suggest to go for Win7 which is lot faster and more stable than WinXP. But as some of us are talking in other threat that Win7 requires graphic card with DirectX-9 minimum, and newer sound card for something I don’t remember. I never care about graphic and sound card, but I had to replace both of them for Win-7 64-bit to work correctly.
The PC’s very fast with my normal editing but I ran into a brick wall with the scale of this job. The banner’s needed for the start of July, so I have no time to start learning the likes of Illustrator and get the job done by then.
I read but never need the feature for my work, but it seems like with banner you may need to merge multiple photos, text etc. together. In this case, you may do some research on the "Smart Object" of newer Photoshop (it may be available since CS2 or something like that).
From what I read or saw on some video tutorial, the Smart Object is pretty similar to vector, or you can enlarge the size without losing the quality (sharpness) or very little comparing to regular photo.
Thanks again.
DEclan