I had some inkling about the 300dpi, but wasn't sure at its application. After reading and finagling stuff in photoshop, I realized all of my past pieces are at the 72 setting (gave me a heart attack!), so pretty unfit for anything larger then 8x11.
But! This gives me the ahead knowledge to watch my settings before I sink into coloring. I believe I will have to poke around open canvas to see how to change the dpi within that program, since I use it for the majority of my coloring (I use photoshop for the scanning, pre-color clean up, and after open canvas coloring touch-ups). I believe I'm starting at 300+ dpi with my scans, but OC is working at 72 dpi unfortunatly.
This all opens my eyes on my own methods, working 'backwards' as it is would be so much better. Making the blank canvas fit the final print size requirements (would it be better still to go larger and shrink down to the corrent size? Such as with digital works the shrinking causes some tightening up) - I will make scans fit the final size rather then the scans themselves determining the final boundaries.
It's just very nice to be able to gouge a printer with questions. A lot of the companies I've worked through aren't very open with the information for some reason (taking up too much time on a subject they assume everyone knows before printing, my own fault also).
Can you work with full bleeds? (I noticed the AC poster [omg omg] and peggys work both have borders)
I also poked around in your journal and saw the mentioning of car vinyl stickers? This really...really strikes my interest. :D (Something I've always wanted to do!)
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Date: 2008-06-23 07:08 pm (UTC)I had some inkling about the 300dpi, but wasn't sure at its application. After reading and finagling stuff in photoshop, I realized all of my past pieces are at the 72 setting (gave me a heart attack!), so pretty unfit for anything larger then 8x11.
But! This gives me the ahead knowledge to watch my settings before I sink into coloring. I believe I will have to poke around open canvas to see how to change the dpi within that program, since I use it for the majority of my coloring (I use photoshop for the scanning, pre-color clean up, and after open canvas coloring touch-ups). I believe I'm starting at 300+ dpi with my scans, but OC is working at 72 dpi unfortunatly.
This all opens my eyes on my own methods, working 'backwards' as it is would be so much better. Making the blank canvas fit the final print size requirements (would it be better still to go larger and shrink down to the corrent size? Such as with digital works the shrinking causes some tightening up) - I will make scans fit the final size rather then the scans themselves determining the final boundaries.
It's just very nice to be able to gouge a printer with questions. A lot of the companies I've worked through aren't very open with the information for some reason (taking up too much time on a subject they assume everyone knows before printing, my own fault also).
Can you work with full bleeds? (I noticed the AC poster [omg omg] and peggys work both have borders)
I also poked around in your journal and saw the mentioning of car vinyl stickers? This really...really strikes my interest. :D (Something I've always wanted to do!)