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Advise Required
Hi Guys/girls
I know what i want to achieve but not sure how to do it.
I need to have text with a bitmap image as a fill. I will be taking the picture myself but was wondering at what resolution i need to be at in order to give a good final result.
This will be going on the side of a trailer and each individual letter will be no bigger than 12″
Hope some of you will give me the benefit of your experience
Cheers
Iain -
4 Replies
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Hi Iain,
Forgive me mate, but what machine do you have, and what software do you run?
As far as a picture quality goes, the higher the better. I take photos at 300dpi personally, but you can print as low as 120dpi and it is accepatable in most cases.
Cheers
Shane -
Sorry Shane, i will be outsourcing the finished print.
As for software i have the usual suspects, Corel, Photoshop etc.
The reason i’m asking is because the last time i did a print with a supplied image it turned into a nightmare. I was hoping by getting it right from the start things might go a bit smoother.
Hope that makes more sense
Iain
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no worries mate, if your outsourcing, the higher the resolution the better.
find out what your company require -cmyk or rgb – and do it at your end, don’t rely on them to do it, coz in most cases they do what they want.
I ask sign shops that give me contract work, to supply the file ready to print in corel, then they know that they will be getting what they designs.
I also do a sample before I start as a proof, so we both know what to expect.
Shane
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Thanks for that Shane
iain
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