How to design a wrap in small scale and send it back to full scale

[hjlanda22]

Ok I am stumped here. I finally did my first tailgate print on my truck I will post pictures later. CAME OUT NICE!!! Thank you mason for your help.


So I designed that at full scale it was 64" x 23" and man oh man did it tie up my computer.... I know I need to get more memory right now I am working with 1 gig. I also use Photoshop CS for my designing

however here is what I dont understand I see poeple on here that design in a smaller scale well I have done that with my template but when I go to make it a full scale it prints really bad...... pixelated real bad however if I took that same design and designed it in full scale (and my computer gives me hell for it) then it prints beautifully the way it was ment to print. I dont understand what I am doing wrong.

I designed my tailgate ( in a smaller scale) and I tried to print in full scale and i aborted the job because it looked so bad...... SO I re did the design from scratch in full scale and printed it it came out AWESOME.

Thanks in advance!

[Valley_Impressions]

The same thing happens to me and i just upgraded to a 4gb ram.

[GXSignCo]

Say you want the final PPI to be 150 AT SIZE. If you design at a reduced scale, say 1/4 scale, then you need to design your graphics at 600 PPI. This way when resized, it is 150 PPI at final output size.

Personally, I don't see how this is of any real benefit since it is still the same amount of information. The only advantage I can see is if you are limited in your design application to a certain page size, and you are then forced into designing at a reduced scale.

I always design at full scale, though file sizes can be cumbersome to deal with at times.

[kendallcole]

Say you want the final PPI to be 150 AT SIZE. If you design at a reduced scale, say 1/4 scale, then you need to design your graphics at 600 PPI. This way when resized, it is 150 PPI at final output size.

Personally, I don't see how this is of any real benefit since it is still the same amount of information. The only advantage I can see is if you are limited in your design application to a certain page size, and you are then forced into designing at a reduced scale.

I always design at full scale, though file sizes can be cumbersome to deal with at times.

Are you refering to Photoshops "smart object" capabilites? To be blown back up to original quality?

[GXSignCo]

No, in any case with any program that you are using for raster image generation.

[geedub]

are you people serious?

Text, "smart objects" and vector masks are all vectors in photoshop. You can export them in a .pdf and open that file in illustrator and you will have outlined vectors.

As for the original question. When people are designing at a smaller scale, they are only making the scale of the unit of measurement of the art in a smaller scale, they are actually accordingly increasing the dpi of the graphic, so when blown up to full scale it will be a good print. Why people do this is beyond me. I really really don't need something sent to me that needs to be 48"x48" @ 150 dpi, sent to me at 24"x24" @ 300 dpi. Both files would be the same size. The only reason I see to do this is; Adobe Illustrator has a maximum artboard area of 227 inches, so if the sign needs to be a 30' wide sign, it would obviously have to be made to scale. I think photoshop's maximum is 240 inches. I would like to see pictures of the design of the tailgate, or the finished tailgate itself to see if I could further help you on designing things of this nature.