Questions tagged [posters]
Questions about pieces of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Posters can also be low-cost reproductions of artwork.
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How can I improve the typography of this Star Wars Day poster?
I designed the following poster for social media stories:
I like the concept; it is not the problem. The O is the part of our logo.
I feel that something is wrong with the font size, weight, or ...
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What line width is appropriate for a scientific A0 poster?
I am in the process of making a poster to be presented at a scientific conference. What line width would you recommend for elements like arrows, graphics, and frames around text?
I am using 28 point ...
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How can I make a heading more legible on a real estate background?
This is a billboard design I'm working on (to be used on highways). I think the heading on this is a little less legible (I just feel so. Is it really?).
So is there any way to make it more legible? ...
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Does anyone know how this kind of pixelated type is created?
Does anyone know how this type is created? Not sure what it would be called, pixelated? Been noticing it in a lot of posters
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Is it possible to batch remove specific layers with Photoshop Actions?
To start with, I have a project where I create a poster each day, and I'm in the process of getting them ready to be sold as prints. Each of the posters that I make for this project has an overlay ...
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How was this distorted line text effect achieved?
The tapering of the white lines varies in severity and shape throughout. I'm guessing a lot of tinkering was involved here, but curious as to the general effect and how it's achieved. It's pretty ...
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Recommended books for movie poster design
I was looking for some good books that can be used as a reference and guide while designing movie posters. Google gave me the names of some, but they're just movie poster collections.
What I'm ...
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Professional approach to design billing block in Photoshop
In this video, Adobe expert Deke McClelland talks about designing Billing Blocks for film posters with the use of Warichu settings in Adobe Illustrator. It works well but sometimes there are issues ...
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Is it necessary for me to have an email address in lower case
I'm designing a flyer which has an email address on it.
Is it necessary for me to have the email address in lower case?
Or can I have it in upper case to put more emphasis?
I did my research on ...
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How can I recreate this typographical style? What effects/processes should I use?
I have been scrolling through various places on the internet and I've come across this typographic style multiple times, and I can't work out how to do it. Can anyone help??
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I have to create a poster for a trade show booth. Is the photo I have to use too small in size?
I have a very tight deadline to create a trade show booth poster in Adobe Illustrator. The size is 40" x 53.5". It is CMYK, 300 dpi.
One of the stock photos that I must use in it, which has been ...
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Live update projects photoshop
I am working on some posters, I like to see how the poster will look in a frame. I have another project open that I can paste the work into. Is there any way to make the poster live update in the ...
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What type of paper is used for mass-produced posters?
I'm looking to order prints of some artwork, and I'd like the paper to be the same or similar type used for mass-produced posters, such as movie/sports/music posters (by companies such as Trends ...
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Using Photoshop to Create Posters
My knowledge of graphic design is limited at best, but I love to dabble on Illustrator, mainly doing posters. From the get go I chose Illustrator because someone said you should always use it for ...
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10 x 3 meter poster or billboard [duplicate]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152264312@N04/35952408580/in/dateposted-public/
my client wants to print this photo on a poster of 10x4 meter board. i had all the files or I can make a new one too. ...
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Is raster or vector better to create photographic infographics?
Between vector and raster editors, which should I learn to use to create infographics based on photos?
The photos all bear a black background, allowing me to lay information in the space without the ...
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Best software to create alphabet chart
I am interested in creating a personalized version of this alphabet chart. I am a complete novice and would like to play around with creating it myself. Can someone please tell me if there is an ...
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Poster book to be printed
I have a big collection of film posters from the 40s-70s and I am working on a project where I want to print 100 posters into a book. I will credit the production company and mention all the info on ...
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Experimental Typography Design Help [closed]
Does anyone know any tutorials on how to achieve these poster designs. My professors want us to design our project like this but never gave us any links on how to achieve this. My first mind is to use ...
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Critique: Balance titles on poster design
I'm designing a poster for a lecture about hostage negotiation. It's a dark, glitchy design, with lots of information on it.
I think the title looks OK but I can't seem to balance the rest of the ...
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How to design a large poster on a small screen?
I'm currently working on a DIN A0 poster (841x1189 mm) and I'm having trouble picturing how the poster will look like once it's printed. I have two monitors (~23" & ~21") and because they are ...
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How do I make pictures/wallpapers suitable to be printed into A0 posters? [closed]
I've got several wallpapers 1920x1080, 2048×1080 resolution, as well as smaller pictures that I want to make suitable (i.e. quality, resolution, etc) to be printed into A0 posters.
I have access to ...
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What size should I make the line art for a one-sheet poster?
I have very little experience in print, if someone could give me some advice on this matter: I have to illustrate a one sheet movie poster (27"*40"), and I was wondering if I can get good results (...
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A5 booklet becomes giant poster?
I have an idea of making an A5 booklet that you can unfold to a A0 poster.
How can I achieve this in InDesign? Or is there a program for it?
Also I would need a recto verso A0 printer I suppose?
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How to get best print results from Illustrator?
I'm printing a large poster through a full color inkjet plotter.
What is the best format to export a design from illustrator for print, that will result in the best quality and lowest file size?
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Critique: iPhone Repair Poster
I would love feedback on a poster I am making for "Techbox" local tech repair business. There are 3 poster boxes on the outside walls of the business with heavy foot traffic so I'm periodically making ...
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What are design ideas or elements that fit between Winter and Spring?
I have to change a poster that is designed to be seasonal. The poster (below) is too "Xmas" for the office and it can't be a Spring design as we are located in Illinois. I think the wreath part & ...
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What design options can I go for when fitting a lot of content in a poster?
My boss has been wanting me to design a promotional poster that can be used for both 18x24in poster and a letter sized one page stand.
I have been having trouble designing a layout that would work ...
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Optimizing a background image for an A0-sized poster
I am working on a poster that will be printed on an A0-sized canvas cloth. The background image of the poster is this public domain Indy farmland.
On top of the background, I put several panes with ...
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Should I get poster printing for higher resolution than 5400 x 3600 for 36“ x 24”?
The highest "common" resolution I've seen for printing a poster is 5400 x 3600 for the reasonable price of (~$15), but I have the ability to make the images I want to print (procedurally generated) as ...
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Reduce image size
Hi I made a poster in photoshop but the image size is really big 15mb, as I live in a small town and have to email this to printers it is a bit of a problem. I was asked to get it down to around 4mb ...
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What PPI settings should I use to print a poster from Photoshop?
Recently I needed to make an A3 size poster for my college fest so I opened up a new .psd, set the dimensions to 11.7" x 16.5" 300 PPI under 16-Bit.
As you know the file size ran into 100 MBs and ...
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Optical sizes on posters
Some fonts come with different optical sizes. A few Adobe fonts have different optical sizes that are recommended for 6–8 point text, 9–14 point, 14–24, and 24+ points. I am designing an A1 poster, ...
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What software can be used to create scientific posters?
For "political" reasons I used MS PowerPoint to create a scientific poster. Scientific means mainly having formulas, plots(they could be images), text and images. Although I would prefer to use LaTeX, ...
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Printing a PDF page in A0 poster
I have a poster that I want to print in A0 size. For technical reasons, the output
PDF file unfortunately is currently not in A0 size. How can I print this poster in A0?
Should I first convert it to ...
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Avoiding resolution problems with collages
I am trying to create my first medium-sized poster in Photoshop, to print at 300ppi on A3. I need to bring together a collage of small files but I am worried that I will inadvertently expand one of ...
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Photoshop: Pixel pattern blurry on export to PDF
I am designing an A1 poster (at 300 dpi) and am noticing blurriness on a pixel pattern when I export my PSD to PDF.
My methodology for generating the PDF is as follows:
Flatten the image
Save as -> ...
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Am I breaking any Copyright/IP law by designing and selling posters based on an existing design and concept?
I have found a website that sells posters that includes graphic design, and am now thinking of creating from scratch my own posters to sell on my website, using the same idea/concept (please note that ...
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Is there a common basic template or style for movie posters?
I am designing an app about collecting movie posters (original ones combined with some funny/creative factors).
Since there are different kinds of movies (horror, romantic, action, etc.), I need to ...
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How to prepare fonts for an online printable poster
I want to make a website that people come and type a sentence and I make a poster out of it, print it, and send it to them. I was thinking of exporting as PDF (as recommended in this SO question).
I ...
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My print based work flow. Am I doing it wrong?
Basically, I had a client who wanted a 1 meter by 2 meter poster to advertise his business at local football events and such.
Though I'm predominantly a web-designer, I thought myself up to the ...
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Make Illustrator use the embedded result images
I have been tasked with updating a poster that the client used last year.
Should be fairly simple, just edit the file, change the date and shrink it from A2 to A3.
But I only have the pdf that was ...
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Is using a portion of quoted text on a poster a derivative work?
I made a poster, for my own use, that uses a few lines from a well known song and I liked the outcome so much I'd like to share it. However, I'm not sure if taking part of a copyrighted material and ...
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What printing technique can I use to print a poster that is too vibrant to print using screen printing?
I've got a poster design that I wish to print. But provided that poster has multiple colors that won't go good for a screen print (further, I would like to restrict screen printing to t-shirts), is ...
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How to design a poster with so much written content in it?
Consider there is a website full of text, and someone asks you to design a poster from it. Which methods do you suggest for designing this poster?
Update: the website is "Semantic Version ...
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Black & white photocopies as posters?
The non-profit organization I contribute to has decided to stop spending money on professional print services and use black & white photocopys for any campaign (recruitment, fund raising, etc.).
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Examples of good academic poster design [closed]
Do you have any good examples of academic poster design? Most posters look exactly the same (I don't want to pick on anyone in particular), and from my experience at conferences, almost nobody reads ...
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Design critique for 36“ x 24” poster announcing coffee shop re-opening
I am new to the graphic design chat here. Please provide any feedback/critique on the
poster available via these links. One is on a colored background, the other is on a white background. Which is ...
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Techniques for very large image
I need to do a poster, 8m width by 3.7m height, consisting of photographic elements that will be seen from varying distances. I've talked to the printer and they can do it at 150ppi's.
The issue here ...
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Which angles look good
A friend of mine had a poster made for his business. Here is a segment of it:
I can't tell for sure, but I think the angle of the logo is not quite right... (I don't mean any pun with the business's ...
