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Istock help please
Morning all
I have to produce a graphic that is around 3m X 0.6m in size. Never had to deal with graphics this size before and just need a bit of advice.
I am looking on Istock for a suitable landscape background but not too sure on what size I need to purchase. Looking at an image that is 4813 X 1021 pix. Would that be sufficient?
If not, can some kind soul please give me a guide on what I should be looking for.
Had a quick search on the boards but all I found seemed as clear as mud 😳
Many thanks
Adie
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6 Replies
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Adi it’s not my bag but I think you need the DPI as well as the Pix values.
I may be wrong but if you create an image using Pixels as the dimension you still have to specify what DPI at that dimension.
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Tim
Istock listing it as 16" X 3.4" at 300 dpi 5.03 MB, seems quite small. 😕
cheers
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Adie if you stretch that to the size you need I get about 40 dpi.
Hopefully others that do large prints can give you advice, but to me that image seems way too small at it’s original size.
Sorry i can’t help more.
Tim.
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Adrian,
Because I guess on the whole the Istock ones are very good quality, I have been surprised how well they will print at a larger scale. Sometimes I stick it through photozoom as well.
Before now I would have definately taken a chance – the only trouble now is that Istock have greatly increased their prices (seems every time I look they increase price or reduce picture size) that I guess you are looking at about £15 for that image – a costly mistake sometimes.
Guess if you go for their largest one what more can you do?
Suppose if you bought image you could also just do a small section to scale to prevent wasting ink/vinyl if no good – you have only lost the image price then.
On balance, would still go for it.
Martin
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it does depend on how you are using the background and from where it will be viewed
50 dpi can still give acceptable results, do a little experiment, get hold of an image that is about 300 dpi, at say A4 resample it to 250,200,150 dpi etc, down to 15 dpi, print the results at 720×720 dpi side by side and then put it on your wall to see what I mean, you will be quite suprised at the resultsPeter
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Cheers guys.
The image is going in the panel recess on a LWB Tranny. Its going to have a couple of dogs heads and a cut vinyl logo set in the middle.
Its really there to stop it looking like a couple of photo cut outs plonked on the panels, but at the same time did not want it to look horrendously pixelated.
Peter, I will give that a go.
Many thanks again guys
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