large museum exhibits

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?

In article <vHg9e.8843$>,
"Allen Anderson" wrote:

Hi,

I need to design some large (3 feet x 4 feet), two-dimensional museum exhibits.

As for file sizes, they’re simply going to be large. Just make sure you have a lot of RAM in your machine… you’re going to need it. 🙂

Stephen Edwards wrote:

In article <vHg9e.8843$>,
"Allen Anderson" wrote:

Hi,

I need to design some large (3 feet x 4 feet), two-dimensional museum exhibits.

As for file sizes, they’re simply going to be large. Just make sure you have a lot of RAM in your machine… you’re going to need it. 🙂

Hummm, 300 dpi for such large images?
are you about to tell us that you are allowed to use NASA comps?
Maybe the OP wants to tell you the kind of machines used to print Offset, large inkjet printers, silkscreen…
if a rope prevent people to look the image very close, (as usual in

there’s no need to apply
the 300 dpi dogma…

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

In article <vHg9e.8843$>, "Allen
Anderson" wrote:

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?

Could you give us more information about what sort of output this project will be going to?

As for resolution, if you’re talking about pixel density, I’d suggest around 300dpi for anything going to print.

As for file sizes, they’re simply going to be large. Just make sure you have a lot of RAM in your machine… you’re going to need it. 🙂

I do mostly screen and web stuff, but a friend who does print told me about a large project she did – the project was broken into sections and she created one file per section. For such an important project I would get advice from the printer and perhaps also do a google search and see if you can find a tutorial.

Flo

"Allen Anderson" wrote in message

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