Monday, July 21, 2008

Poster Making Guide and Tips


Photo Scanning Tips.
In scanning, resolution refers to the number of dots per inch (DPI) that your scanner produces when “looking” at your photos. The higher the resolution, the more dots per inch your scanner uses to reproduce your picture. A low-resolution image will have less detail, and a high-resolution image will be more distinct. When scanning photos for photo restoration purposes, high resolutions are necessary. Set your resolution to 300 DPI or higher. If your original photo is very small and you want it enlarged, you may want to go up to 600 DPI or higher.
Advertising with Poster Printing:Poster printing has been around for a very long time. They have been used for a variety of reasons. They were used as recruiting tools during wartime. They have always been used to promote movies. And they have long been effective as advertising tools. Why? Because they work. Poster printing are an ideal way to get your message across to customers without spending a great deal of money. With the right kind of printed poster design, you can have a profound effect on people who see your posters. The right posters can bring in a great deal of new customers.
The Benefits of Poster PrintingYou can use posters in a variety of ways. One of the best things about poster printing is its flexibility. You can design posters to meet just about any business need.
Posters are ideal for promoting the following events:• Charity functions• Arts and music festivals• Concerts• Sales• Special events
Effectively implementation of poster printing can send a powerful message to your target customers and effectively promote your business.
What Poster Printing with PrintPlace Can DoW e bring your poster printing projects to life. We provide quality poster printing services for you with remarkable turnaround time. If you have trouble designing your own posters, our professional design department will help you.
Please note that if your original image is at a low resolution, changing the image to a higher resolution throughinterpolation won't improve the sharpness If you are emailing the file, please JPEG it to within 3 MB file size. For larger files, please Upload your files to our server . Please keep your file size to within a couple hundreds MB either by JPG compression, or LZW compression in TIF, or zipping it. If you have problems with FTP, simply burn a CD and send to us or send by email.
Important Information About RGB and CMYK
Many graphics software programs give you the choice to work in either RGB or CMYK. These are called “color spaces”. Scanners and digital cameras create images using combinations of just three colors: Red, Green and Blue (called “RGB”). These are the primary colors of light, which computers use to display images on your screen. Printing presses print full color pictures using a different set of colors, the primary colors of pigment: Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Black (called “CMYK”). This is “4-color process” or “full-color” printing that comprises the majority of magazines and marketing materials you see every day. At some stage your RGB file must be translated to CMYK in order to print it on a printing press.It’s Best If You do the RGB-to-CMYK Conversion of Your Images
You will have more control over the appearance of your printed piece if you convert all of the images from RGB to CMYK before sending them to us. When we receive RGB images, we do a standard-value conversion to CMYK, which may not be perfectly to your liking. We want you to be happy, so please, take the time to prepare your file properly. We cannot be responsible for sub-par results if you furnish your images in RGB. Even though monitors always use RGB to display colors, the colors you see on your monitor will more closely match the final printed piece if you are viewing them in the CMYK color space.
Be aware that it is possible to see colors in RGB that you can’t make with CMYK. They are said to be “out of the CMYK color gamut”. What happens is that the RGB-to-CMYK translator just gets as close as possible to the appearance of the original and that’s as good as it can be. It’s something that everyone in the industry puts up with. So it’s best to select CMYK colors for fonts or other design elements in your layout. That way, you will have a better idea of how they will appear in your printed piece. You most likely won’t notice a color shift in a color photograph. It is more likely to happen if you pick a very rich, vibrant color in your layout. It probably won’t look bad, it just won’t look exactly the same. Guru Graphics Ltd.

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