From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size

- [Instructor] Here we are looking at my Joan Miró-inspired artwork that I created inside Adobe Photoshop Sketch using an iPad Pro complete with an Apple pencil, and now I want to print it out as a large piece of poster art. And so here I am looking at the layered composition inside Photoshop, at which point I'll go up to the file menu and choose the print command. Now you may get an alert message telling you that the save printer information is not compatible with your system. In which case, don't worry about it, just move on. And notice that I've switched the layout over here from portrait, which is the default setting, to this guy next door, landscape. At which point the artwork looks enormous. You can see that it is much larger than this piece of paper, but I want to direct your attention to this position and size stuff right here, at which point, you can see that the print resolution is just 72 pixels per inch. So even though the artwork happens to contain about five and a half million pixels, we have a very low resolution. All right, so let's remedy that. I'll just go ahead and cancel out by going up to the image menu and choosing the image size command, and now notice that I've gone ahead and scaled this dialog box so that it's taking up just about the entire screen and at this point, I just want to change the resolution. I don't want to change the number of pixels inside the image so I'm going to turn the re sample checkbox off right there and then I'll set the resolution value to 300 pixels per inch and I'll go ahead and click okay. And now I'll once again go to the file menu and choose the print command. At which point, we can see that the image does not fill the page. And you can also see, assuming that the position and size area has expanded, that the height of the image is less than six inches and the width is just a little bit more than nine inches. I want it to be much larger still, so what I'm going to do is click on the print settings button right here in order to bring up the dialog box as it's determined by the printer driver. So unless you're working with an Epson printer specifically on the PC, your dialog box is going to look much different. So you're going to have to refer to your printer documentation, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the size here from eight and a half by 11 inches, so a standard U.S. letter-sized page to A series and then 13 by 19 inches. So again, how you go about getting there is going to be determined by your printer driver. In any event, I'll go ahead and choose that size. Notice that I'm printing borderless, so I want to print all the way to the edge of the paper and my print preview checkbox is turned on. And I can't stress this enough. This is all because I'm working with an Epson printer on the PC. At which point I'll go ahead and click okay and you can see that this specific printer is a Sure Color P800, just for what it's worth. All right, now notice how very dinky that image is inside the page. This is no good. So what I'm going to do is click the done button right here in order to save that printer info, and now I'm going to scale my artwork. Now this is specifically how I would scale a non-photographic image like this one where the foreground and the background are on independent layers. So what I'm going to do is go up to the image menu and choose the image size command once again. And I'll go ahead and turn the re sample checkbox on this time around. Make sure that the width and height values are linked into alignment with each other and then just go ahead and change one of these guys to the measurement you're looking for. So this is a 13 by 19 inch page, so I'll try a width value of 19 inches. Well, that makes the width value too big, so I'm going to take it down to exactly 13 inches. So in other words, I want to go with the lesser of the two values. I don't want either of the values to go larger than the actual size of the printed page. So the width value's a little less than 19 inches. The height value is exactly 13 inches. The resolution is 300 pixels per inch, which is what I want. You could even go higher, if you wanted to to something like 360 pixels per inch because I'm printing to a very fine inkjet printer. Totally up to you. Might as well go for it because we're already enlarging the image quite a bit and you can see that the new image size is 83.6 megabytes. That's flat, by the way. Doesn't include layers. It used to be 16 megabytes, so we're more than quintupling the size of this image, which means that we need to change re sample from automatic to, if it's available to you, preserve details 2.0. And so go ahead and select that guy and that is going to give us the best up sampling there is in all of Photoshop. So notice if I drag around, these are the big, huge enlarged pixels and then when I release, you can see that we get these much smoother details. Once again, thanks to preserve details 2.0. If you're not seeing it, you can go with just plain ol' preserve details, which is going to give you almost as good of results, but not quite. So anyway, I'll go with 2.0 and then I'll click okay. And by the way, this is probably going to take a while to pull off, depending on the speed of your system because it is a processor-intensive operation. All right, but it's done, so I'll go ahead and press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on a Mac in order to zoom out. Now this image is not wide enough, as you may recall. It's 13 inches tall, so that's tall enough, but it's only about 17 inches wide, so what you need to do is return to the image menu and this time, choose the canvas size command. But first, before you do that, I want you to click on this background item here. Notice that it's locked, so it looks like it's a background layer, but it's not actually a background layer. It's just a layer that was created in Sketch that happens to be called background and it's locked. If you want to make it a background, which you do, by the way, then go up to the layer menu, choose new and choose background from layer. And that will go ahead and change the appearance of the lock icon. Notice that this is before it was kind of white and this is after, now it's hollow. And on a PC, you'll see the word background become italicized. All right, now you want to tap the d key in order to establish the default foreground and background colors so that the background color is white. You want that guy to remain white, by the way. That's why we need that background, and now you want to return to the image menu and choose the canvas size command. Not image size, but canvas size this time around and now go ahead and change the unit to inches, assuming that you're working with imperial measurements like I am. You could go with centimeters or millimeters instead, if you'd like, but in any event, I'm going to stick with that and I'm going to set the width to like, 20 inches, so I have more than enough to work with and I'll tab down to the height value and let's take it up to, let's say, 14 inches. And then I'll click okay. And you may be wondering what in the world I'm up to. Well, it'll make sense in just a moment. Now notice that we have these gaps around the background. I think that's pretty easy to notice. I don't even think I had to tell you to notice that in order for you to do so. Now you could try to fill that stuff in with content-aware fill. We'll see how that can go wrong in just a few weeks, by the way, but in the meantime, what I want you to do instead is select that blue field layer right there and what we're going to do is scale it. And you can make that happen just by going to the edit menu and choosing the free transform command or just press Control + T or Command + T on the Mac. All right, now nowadays, Photoshop is obsessed with scaling things proportionally as we're seeing right here, and notice, we've got a problem in the background, so we'll have to come back to that. But what that means because we have proportional scaling by default is that I can't snap into alignment with the corner down there. I can drag this guy 'til it snaps into alignment like so, but I can't actually snap the point. So you want to snap the points around, then what you need to do is press the shift key as you drag a corner handle and that way, it'll snap into place because when you have the shift key down, you can scale a layer non-proportionally. And you can see those non-proportional values up here in the options bar. We don't really care about what the specific values are. We just want to make sure that these corner handles are snapping to the corner of the canvas. At which point, press the enter key or the return key on the Mac to accept that change. Now this layer is translucent. That is, you can see through various portions of the layer. It looks pretty homogeneous right now, but when it prints, it might print badly and that's because if I turn this layer off, you can see that I've got this sort of light gray or yellowish gray going into white here in the background. So what you want to do is select the background layer by clicking on it and then press Control + Backspace or Command + Delete on the Mac. Now for some reason, that's not working for me. I haven't really figured that out. I can press Control + Delete in order to make it work here in the PC and you can see that makes everything white, but just go up to the edit menu and choose the fill command or you can press Shift + Backspace or Shift + Delete on the Mac and then you would just change the contents to background color right there and go ahead and click okay and that will fill the background with white. Because after all, white is the background color as you can see down here at the bottom of the toolbox. All right, now I'll just go ahead and turn that blue field layer back on. I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac in order to fit my image on screen and then I'll go up to the file menu and choose the print command and I can still see that I have a very large page size. By the appearance of this black text against this very dark background, so it's telling me that it's 19 and a half, let's say, inches wide by 13 and some inches tall, which means that we're going to get some clipping, so I'm going to leave the scale set to 100%. I'm not going to change anything there. I'll just go ahead and click print in order to print the image, and then once Photoshop tells me that some clipping will occur, I'll click proceed and then a moment later, because I had that print preview checkbox turned on there inside the Epson dialog box, I'm going to see this print preview right here. And if I want to see it at its most accurate, then I would just go ahead and expand the size of this dialog box by clicking on the maximize button right there. Then I'd click on this button, fit to screen, and that's going to redraw my preview which is going to be accurate, by the way. At which point you can see that I'm going to be printing absolutely borderless, and so I'll just click the print button in order to proceed. All right, but I'm going to click cancel 'cause I've already printed that guy in advance, and I'm just going to zoom in here so you can see that at 100%, we have some very nice-looking results, so we've got some nice texture associated with these graphite pencil brushstrokes and the red square thing is looking good and these other transitions are looking quite nice, as well. Now we are seeing a few interpolation artifacts, so notice we have some jagged transitions right here, but this is the best we're going to do when up sampling in Photoshop. All right, so I'll just go ahead and press shift + F in order to switch to the full screen mode and I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac to fit my artwork on screen and that is how you enlarge your Miró-inspired artwork in order to print it at poster size.

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