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Hello

I have done 48 sheet billboards and point of sale banners in photoshop.

Just do them at a percentage of the final size, ie 50% and get the printer to run it out at the correct size ie 200%. As long as you do the resolution (dpi) to compensate - (ie if the final banner is at 150 dpi - do the artwork 300 dpi)

Sometimes you have problems with scratch disks filling up etc, but if you have enough hard disk space, it is normally OK.

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Originally Posted by g

Hi there,
need to create a 10ft by 2ft banner. I had planned on doing this in photoshop. have done a conversion check and its 304.8cm by 60.96. only prob is that photoshop will only take a measurement up to 254 nevermind 304!! now im not sure how to go about creating the image?? any advice would be so good. thanks very much

I'm not sure why you would want to enter this into Photoshop as cm... why not just enter is as inches? Less confusion.

I had no problem entering 120 inches by 24 inches. At 300 pixels/inch that is going to be a 741.6 MB file! And that's before you add anything to it.

Personally I wouldn't do something like this in Photoshop. It's not what it was designed for. If you use a vector program like Illustrator, you can work with a reduced file and then output it at the full size with no degrading the output.

A second alternative would be to use a page layout application in conjunction with Photoshop, or what ever.