designing museum exhibits

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Allen Anderson
Apr 19, 2005
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Hi,

I need to design some large (3 feet x 4 feet), two-dimensional museum exhibits. The exhibits will combine text and images (which I can scan from maps, photos, etc). I want to use Adobe Photoshop CS. I completed a class in photoshop, but the projects were small.

Any suggestions on getting started with such large projects? What resolution should I use? How can I keep the file sizes under control?

Thanks,
Allen Anderson
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Apr 20, 2005
In article <RIg9e.8844$>,
"Allen Anderson" wrote:

Any suggestions on getting started with such large projects? What resolution should I use? How can I keep the file sizes under control

For starters, don’t attempt to lay out the entire exhibit in Photoshop. Do only the images in Photoshop, then put the images together in a page layout program like QuarkXPress or InDesign, and add your type in the page layout program.

When I do large-format exhibits and trade show displays, I build the images at 300 pixels per inch. This usually creates images for trade show displays anywhere between 200 MB and a gigabyte in size. Photoshop will handle such images just fine, assuming your computer has enough hard drive space and memory — and if it doesn’t, you should probably consider upgrading your equipment before working on any large-format project. 🙂

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