Creating A4 Posters?

[Tican]

Hi all,

Any tips or tricks for creating posters in colour and B&W, for use in a company?

I have Photoshop...

Posters will be printed on A4 paper, which I would like to look better than the other mass produced crap they currently have (Word 2003 masterpiece)

Haha

Thanks in advance

 

[SpicyDuck]

Photoshop has some default A4 settings at 300dpi which, I imagine, would work quite well. At least they will be 1 Gazillion-million times better than a masterpiecé de Word.

I don't know much about print but, as far as I'm aware (and this is quite obvious), the higher the resolution of the printer and the .psd, the better the quality. I guess it all depends on the style of the graphics as well, though.

As for tips I'm not sure but, I guess, for any poster that you wish to be read, keep a high contrast between the background and text colours. Read up about Typography and grab some tricks from there, too. It's all very interesthing: the art of how to place text on a page to acheive great readability results.

 

[Tican]

Cool, nice one I will do that,

Thanks

 

[Booner!]

A4 would need to be at least 300dpi and have bleed/trim marks if you want it professionally done. Bleed allows the printer to trim the poster down without leaving a white edge. This just means leaving the image to bleed out by 3mm+ (extend beyond the print area)