LivingPharaoh
New Member
Hello folks,
I'll condense the background on this as much as possible: running in an election. Party decided I'm only worth a couple thousand flyers, and no posters. I go to get a couple printed myself without knowing DPI or DMYK from Adam, but I asked my party's graphic designer to make me a poster of the dimensions of 420 x 594 millimetres (A2) and like a pro, he did. Then I learned what DPI was and that the print company asked for 300 resolution. Oh, and a 3mm bleed on the sides. So my problem is this:
I work with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) and attempted to resize the DPI/pixels to meet their needs - this turned out to be 49606 x 70157px which makes my reasonably-fast computer seize up and takes ages - crashing altogether three times. Even if I did finish this mammoth task, the file is likely to be a few gigabytes in size as a project file 10th of the size stood at 1GB.
Does this company know what they're doing or am I missing out on something? Would it be worth my very modest campaign funds to commission one of you folks to ewsize and convert it to DMYK?
Thanks
I'll condense the background on this as much as possible: running in an election. Party decided I'm only worth a couple thousand flyers, and no posters. I go to get a couple printed myself without knowing DPI or DMYK from Adam, but I asked my party's graphic designer to make me a poster of the dimensions of 420 x 594 millimetres (A2) and like a pro, he did. Then I learned what DPI was and that the print company asked for 300 resolution. Oh, and a 3mm bleed on the sides. So my problem is this:
I work with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) and attempted to resize the DPI/pixels to meet their needs - this turned out to be 49606 x 70157px which makes my reasonably-fast computer seize up and takes ages - crashing altogether three times. Even if I did finish this mammoth task, the file is likely to be a few gigabytes in size as a project file 10th of the size stood at 1GB.
Does this company know what they're doing or am I missing out on something? Would it be worth my very modest campaign funds to commission one of you folks to ewsize and convert it to DMYK?
Thanks