finished poster

[AngelWhip]

printed as 20x30 poster. for a graduation gift.

 

[ronmatt]

Of course, we're looking at a .jpg of the poster, but a question comes to mind. Is it done in Photoshop and if so, is the text rasterized? The only reason I ask is because so many don't realize that by keeping the text on it's own layer(s), you can preserve the vector info when saving as a Photoshop EPS. Then distill the EPS to PDF, which embeds the vector text and you get nice crisp scalable type. Just as Illustrator and In Design would give you. If everyone knew that, nevermind. ;\

 

[AngelWhip]

yes it was done in photoshop. the text of the stats wasn't done directly in ps. i copied from a site and then pasted into word pad(i think). oh gosh, now i can't remember how i got it into ps. i must have copied again and then pasted into ps.
but, the stats are a little fuzzy and was trying to figure out for next time how to sharpen them up.

 

[ljiljana]

Of course, we're looking at a .jpg of the poster, but a question comes to mind. Is it done in Photoshop and if so, is the text rasterized? The only reason I ask is because so many don't realize that by keeping the text on it's own layer(s), you can preserve the vector info when saving as a Photoshop EPS. Then distill the EPS to PDF, which embeds the vector text and you get nice crisp scalable type. Just as Illustrator and In Design would give you. If everyone knew that, nevermind. ;\

What the word "distill" means in Photoshop dicionary? Thanks. 8))

 

[ronmatt]

When you prepare pages for print, (This includes ads, publications etc.) the files are submitted as PDF documents. All images and text are 'embedded' in the PDF doc. The pre-press techs, at the printer, take these files and 'preflight' them (check them for correctness) then they place the pages in an imposition program, such as Preps, which places the pages in the proper position, in a template, to make up a multi-page book or magazine or whatever. In order to 'embed' the file information, the postscript file or EPS file is saved from whatever app you made them from, then Acrobat has a 'tool' called distiller which processes the postscript and creates the PDF file. Distiller has various settings for different print requirements, you choose the 'setting' that is best for the job you're printing. Many printers will provide you with their PDF Profiles, which you install in Acrobat Distiller. That assures that your file is consistant with your printers specs. (By 'Printer', I refer to printing companies.) Anyway, that's a quick course in PDF workflow. It's really much more complicated than this. But if you aspire to being a graphic designer, you'd best learn what else is involved besides building images in Photoshop. That's the easy part. Good Luck

 

[ljiljana]

Thanks, I appreciate your detail answer.

 

[namvet]

AngelWhip .. nice poster .. that was a lot of work ... well done ... :} :} :}

ronmatt .. helpfull explanation .. thanks

 

[AngelWhip]

thanks namvet! i had a lot of fun creating it.