Designing a Photo Call Background, & Scaling Up (File size concerns)

[jy90274]

I am designing a personalized crest and a 'photo call' background (like for movie premieres) for a wedding (mine, actually).

These are the 4 stock design elements (from Shutterstock) that I intend to download to make the personalized wedding crest:

(A) Floral Crest (navy blue) (Large | 5000 px x 5000 px | 16.7″ x 16.7″ @ 300 dpi)
[![https://www.shutterstock.com/image-...000439?src=hI21m7djRWjpvho_Gdd1sw-1-33][1]][1]

(B) Floral Crest (white) (Large | 5000 px x 5000 px | 16.7″ x 16.7″ @ 300 dpi)
[![https://www.shutterstock.com/image-...999314?src=hI21m7djRWjpvho_Gdd1sw-1-17][2]][2]

(C) Red Rose Bud (Large | 5000 px x 5000 px | 16.7″ x 16.7″ @ 300 dpi)
[![https://image.shutterstock.com/z/st...ound-vector-illustration-211341856.jpg][3]][3]

(D) 'Marie Antoinette' profile silhouette (Small | 763 px x 800 px | 2.5″ x 2.7″ @ 300 dpi (Vector image available as well)) [![https://www.shutterstock.com/image-...9729550?src=XIl-97uZmPBeK1WLoSLpXA-1-3][4]][4]

(NOTE: Each of these files have a JPEG or Vector download option.)




I've done two mock-ups/versions of the wedding crest (white and navy blue backgrounds), and I will need to incorporate these wedding crests into a checkerboard pattern design for the photocall background.

Here's a mock-up of the photo call - each square is about 10x10 inches. 9 squares tall, 15 squares across. So that's 90 inches (7 1/2 feet) tall, and 15 inches (12.5 feet) wide.


My questions are thus:

1. The stock elements/images I'm planning on using to make the wedding crest are pretty large files in and of themselves (the floral crest, the rose, etc.). If I use those wedding crests in a repeating checkerboard pattern, wouldn't it stand to reason that the file size would get un-manageably massive? For example, each 'square' (crest, rose bud, silhouette) will be roughly 5000 px x 5000 px or 16.7″ x 16.7″. If you multiply that by 9 (# of squares tall) and by 15 (# squares across), the pixel count is immense.
   
   
2. I am a novice graphic designer (not in the professional sense). I'm not very comfortable with Adobe Illustrator and vector images, and would prefer to use Adobe Photoshop and JPEG images instead. The JPEGs available for download are 300 DPI and large, so I'm fairly sure the quality would be high enough to print on a photocall background. Is this OK?
   

 

[Paul Murray]

Chances are you won't need to print at 300dpi if it's a banner, so that will reduce your filesize considerably. For something like this though, you really need to use vector, it's what the format is for.

 

[hankscorpio]

I'd stick with vector personally.

And in all honestly that would make the file size even larger than using pixel versions.


You can place them at the size you want to print using Illustrator. http://www.avenza.com/resources/blog/2010/03/01/finding-image-resolution-adobe-illustrator

Once your PPI is above 300 then it's fine for each element.

For a banner - as mentioned - you won't need 300 - you could reduce to 200 if necessary.

All this can be set on PDF export from Illustrator using the Compression settings in the PDF options when saving.

https://www.google.ie/webhp?sourcei...e=UTF-8#q=illustrator+save+as+pdf+compression


One thing to don't forget about is the Bleed! https://www.google.ie/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=illustrator+adding+bleed


I would not recommend Photoshop for this project.

Illustrator would be best.