8ft x 2ft banner... file size too big!!

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Probably being really basic but here goes. I've designed a logo that is to be put onto a banner measuring 8ft x 2ft in Photoshop. I made the background the size of the banner and put my logo on it but when I come to save it my mac says its not got enough ram to do it (4gb).

Am i being really basic and is there an easier way to do it? I made the background the size of the banner as i didn't want it to pixelate

HELP!!

Iain :cool:
 
You should really be going it as a vector logo in illustrator or something, that way it'll be tiny but infinitely scaleable
 
There's no need to make it the same size as the banner, just use the same proportions (2x8) and use the original photo resolution The printer will upscale it for you.

plus as above for vector base logos.
 
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My vertical banner is 80cm x 200cm and it's 32mb at 72dpi and it saved ok on my old pc with 2gb ram.

What dpi have you saved at?
 
Not too experienced in this but I think you need to make your logo into a vector. then it can be blown up to any size with a small file :)

Edit: Kevin... great minds. :D
 
If you have a photo as your background (not text which should be vector based) then by supplying the photo at original resolution, upscaling by the printer RIP is the same as upscaling in photoshop without the problem that you have run into.

Edit, If your logo is the same as the one on your website, then I think vector based is out, and you will have to lower the resolution as suggested.
 
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This is the image, so if i save it at 1x4 it would work out the same?

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if it's for a banner you won't need 300dpi so you can drop it down to 120 or lower depending on the distance it's being viewed from

you'll have to chat with your printing company to see what file formats they're happy printing from, you could try jpg for small but you may get some degredation in the gradients, i'd suggest png but as above check with your printer about compatibility and colour accuracy etc
 
It's difficult to say. If I was doing it, the text and the glow would be separate files combined in a programme like Quark and you could enlarge to any size.
If this is one file from photoshop, you could either get the printer to do a test for you, or if you have a small printer you could do an A4 crop of part of the file incuding some diagonal or round text, print it and see what it looks like.
 
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Aye - vector would cover the text part and make that scalable to infinity, but the glow is more tricky...

I have had a logo in artwork blown up to 4x2 meters... DPI will be the key in giving them an image that wont appear pixellated. Probably best to send in a PDF uncompressed.
 
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