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noopypoop
11-30-2007, 05:41 PM
Well i'm having a part very soon, and at the end as a food gift for the road were going to give away biscottis(one of my favorite desserts!). Any way, the station giving away the biscottis is going to be called Scotty's Biscotti Bar(my name is Scott). The text is easy, but also im going to plan to take a picture of myself with my arms out wide, then resize a picture of a biscotti and make it look like im holding a huge biscotti. Also, since the theme of the party is cars, im planning to make a biscotti look like a car(if you look at one you'll see how i could make it a car).

Any ideas how to do this?


This isnt just a for fun thing like the wallpapers ive made in the past. I need to get this done before the party and get it printed. Also, this has to be a big size. If i make it a small resolution, willl it pixalate when printed or do i have to make it like 5000x5000 pixels?


Thank you if you help, and reps all round' !:)

Elenril
11-30-2007, 05:49 PM
When you make it, make sure that you choose at least 360dpi for the resolution. That's the minimum dpi for print, otherwise it will be pixelated.

Good luck, if you have any questions or anything just send me a PM.

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 05:55 PM
When you make it, make sure that you choose at least 360dpi for the resolution. That's the minimum dpi for print, otherwise it will be pixelated.

Good luck, if you have any questions or anything just send me a PM.

well the thing is this is going to be really big. Probably over a couple feet so im going to get it professionallly printed with nice paper as apposed to my printer which not the king of quality i need.


EDIT: Also i need it so it will be clear at any size the printing people make it.

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:09 PM
ugh just found out. I NEED THIS DONE BY ABOUT SUNDAY!



i need all the help i can get!

Elenril
11-30-2007, 08:11 PM
In that case, when you create a new document, when you select the dimensions, choose the dimensions in inches or feet rather than pixels. That way you will definitely know what size it will be, and it will be that size when printed. For something that big, I'd probably up the resolution a bit to 400dpi at least, but unless your computer has a lot of power it's going to cause some serious lag. I wouldn't go overboard with dpi though, as long as it's pretty high it should be fine.

Also, professional printing is VERY expensive if you didn't know already. Not sure what point I'm trying to make there, seeing as you can't print anything decent from a normal printer anyway.

Scotty
11-30-2007, 08:16 PM
Do 300DPI, thats what i've always been told is the lowest for prints.

If you need it to be quiet large the guesstimate the size you want and set it at about that, it will be seriously slow and the file size will be huge though.

And you stole my name, so i have no idea why im helping you ;) :P

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:17 PM
ok. its gunna be 3ft by 2 ft


how many pixels per inch should i pick

Elenril
11-30-2007, 08:21 PM
dots per inch: 400. just to be safe.

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:24 PM
now it made the size over 300 meters!

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:25 PM
or does m mean megabyte

Elenril
11-30-2007, 08:28 PM
I have no idea what M means, but it doesn't mean meters.

Just ignore it. I told you a high dpi and a large size would demand quite a lot of space and resources. Expect major lag.

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:29 PM
the thing is when i raided the dpi it raised the size of the picture itself. if i print will it stay 3x2 feet ?

Elenril
11-30-2007, 08:30 PM
Set the dpi before the size. Are you doing all this when you create a new document or are you creating the document and then changing the image size? Make sure you do it when you're creating it.

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:32 PM
yea im creating a new. here are the settings



width:36 inches

length:24 inches

pixels per inch:400

Elenril
11-30-2007, 08:34 PM
That's it.

If you want to discuss this further, add me on msn: kibblequean [at] gmail [dot] com.

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 08:36 PM
ok.. thanks oh and +rep to you =)


now to make a biscotti look like a car

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 10:26 PM
ugh this is hard. Good thing my neighbor is a professional photo editor.



also, would i be able to make the image at a low resolution since its easier to work with then use some kind of software to resize it with out pixelating it?

noopypoop
11-30-2007, 11:59 PM
woo almost done! in the morning i will be taking the picture and wrapping things up

noopypoop
12-01-2007, 09:21 PM
Done!



http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3936/biscottiprintscreenld2.png

XcOM
12-02-2007, 05:08 PM
that looks alrite dude, it would entice me to buy some, Loving the ferrari font!

Omega
12-10-2007, 09:08 AM
not bad, my question is why you screenshotted photoshop rather than saving as a jpeg and uploading that =p

noopypoop
12-10-2007, 09:12 AM
not bad, my question is why you screenshotted photoshop rather than saving as a jpeg and uploading that =p

The demensions were 3x2 feet =)

Drum Thumper
12-10-2007, 05:26 PM
The demensions were 3x2 feet =)

Photobucket it. Automatically resizes whatever you upload.

noopypoop
12-10-2007, 07:20 PM
Photobucket it. Automatically resizes whatever you upload.

does it take over 19 mb?

Quakken
12-10-2007, 07:45 PM
for some reason, that is exactly how i imagined you would look, noopy.

weird.

noopypoop
12-10-2007, 07:54 PM
for some reason, that is exactly how i imagined you would look, noopy.

weird.


lol

Elenril
12-11-2007, 08:57 AM
You can resize it in photoshop before saving it. So you could have saved the real copy, and a smaller copy for TBCS.

noopypoop
12-11-2007, 05:19 PM
You can resize it in photoshop before saving it. So you could have saved the real copy, and a smaller copy for TBCS.

I know i tried but for some reason the chrome text got messed up, like the stroke around it turned from one pixel to like 30 pixels. Only thing wierd was nothing else screwed up.

Elenril
12-11-2007, 07:02 PM
I know it's a bit late now because you've already done it, but you can do this next time.

Save it as a .jpeg first. That'll compress it into one flat image. Then resize it. That way the layer blending options like stroke won't change at all, because it's already a flat image.