Will Photoshop Elements do this? I’m referring to movie poster size (27" x 40") but clear resolution quality.
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Will Photoshop Elements do this? I’m referring to movie poster size (27" x 40") but clear resolution quality.
Thanks
What is it that you are trying to accomplish? Are you creating new object oriented artwork or blowing up existing photographs or a combination of the two?
Are you talking about making a poster from things like a photograph, or creating your own original art?
If the former, Photoshop could definitely do it, and Elements probably could as well, but the quality of the poster will depend on the resolution of the image/s that you use. If the latter, you want a vector drawing program like Illustrator.
… as far as I can tell, any professional-level print-production software should be able to handle “making a poster”. It’s only a matter of scale. Quark, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, all their competitors, etc.
But **mhendo **is asking the right questions here. How you plan to create your poster will dictate the optimal software.
I’m asking for a friend so I’m not positive but I’m assuming photo plus text. He’s wanting to make posters for an upcoming conference.
I’ve made many research posters for conferences in Powerpoint.
I’ll second MS PowerPoint. If you don’t already know the answer to the question, PowerPoint is going to be the simplest method to do it. Just put together the parts and Kinko’s or any other printshop can take your powerpoint and print the poster.
You can use Photoshop Elements but there are limitations such as control of typography and outrageous file size that make a page layout program a better choice for print design layout.
If you are using type and any other graphic elements aside from one large photo - a page layout program like InDesign is optimal, you will have more control and options.
If you’re talking about cutting and pasting smaller sheets to make a larger sheet you can do it with Excel just fine. If this is what you’re talking about then cut and paste them in rows and then combine the rows. Use glue sticks and when you’re done tape the joints from behind with clear packing tape. This will stabilize the whole thing and you can handle it without problems of the glue coming undone from rolling/unrolling it.
Powerpoint only goes up to 56" in either width or height. That is 4 feet 8 inches. No I don’t know why they chose such an arbitrary number. If you want a similar environment, go with Microsoft Publisher. Similar to PPT is Openoffice Impress, which is basically a clone and free. Neither of those have size limits AFAIK.
Illustrator and the like are cool because they use vector graphics, thus can be scaled to large sizes easily. That and Photoshop use an environment more suited for graphics than posters, however.
Sounds like that more than big enough to manage the OP’s 27" x 40" poster.
You can also get around any software-imposed page- size limits by simply printing at more than 100% size – let the output device blow it up.