I’m designing a 6’ bus advert with a three day flip round time. I’m extra comfy working with Photoshop than I’m Illustrator. Would the graphic be capable of print in high-res if I work in photoshop to the precise dimension (with bleed) of the advert? Any ideas for finest practices on saving it as a PDF for print can be useful as properly! After all, the file is ready as much as CMYK 300 dpi.
When doing large format, it’s *always* helpful to ask the print vendor what they prefer, and if you want to learn something extra, ask them why.
They deal with this stuff every day and also deal with the multitude of heinous files they receive.
A print production mentor can truly make all your future print projects so much easier for everyone involved.
Print production, press set up, press color management, press mechanics and bindery come together as a pretty cool manufacturing process.
Every print designer should have their go-to printer give them a full facility tour. It’s a good time with the right “tour guide.”
I was using this method forever. I lived and died by Photoshop. About six months ago, after urging and lessons from people on this sub, I began using Indesign, and to be honest, it was easy and one of the best moves I’ve ever made.
I began using Illustrator about two months ago. Today I had all three programs open and they are all integrated and my workflow was amazing.
Seriously. Spend a couple hours a day and your graphics and workflow will change so much.
yawn – just learn the proper tools: use illustrator or indesign for these tasks
also CHECK the specs tihe printer as it’s unlikely to be 300ppi (probably more like 50–100 ppi) and a 6 foot 300 ppi photoshop pdf will be huge. AND if they require a file at e.g. 1:4 scale (where the size is 1/4 but the resolution is 4x the final required)
Listen to everyone below.
Make a full-bleed version in Photoshop then place it in an InDesign file with the correct bleed settings. Turn on marks & bleeds when you export the PDF from InDesign
There are no problems, just save as tiff unless you were given special instructions from printer.
Design background on photoshop by taking canvas in feets with 300ppi save the psd, then place that psd on illustrator canvas with same size with 300ppi CMYK. put all the text content on illustrator save as pdf or whatever format client is asking