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Saving large poster art - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Saving large poster art
All right, at the risk of overstaying my welcome here, I had promised those of you who are not planning on sending your files out for commercial reproduction, and you don't have access to a PostScript output device. What do you do if you want to expand the size of this file, and let's say you want to print it as a piece of poster art? And by the way this works not only for your posters, but your billboards and your big huge images that you want to plaster on the side of a bus and all of that big huge artwork. What do you do in that case? Well, you do, like so. You go ahead and grab your Alternate ending.psd file and then you go up to the Image menu and you go ahead and choose the Image Size command or press Ctrl+Alt+I, Command+Option+I on the Mac, and this is very important that we go ahead and up sample. We're going to up sample this time around. We're up sampling from the layered version of the file. So this is going to be potentially a very time-consuming process depending on how…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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