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Sep 08 '08 by PrincessBea
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photoshop-artwork... in which size/resolution do you work?

I am planning to do a design in photoshop and i was wondering, how big the document should be that i am creating.

the template is to small, it's 72dpi anyway and ~22cmx22cm (sorry, i'm european, using the metric system).

so... somewhere is mentioned to make sure to work with at least 150dpi.
do you use an document with -let's say- 30cmx45cm in an even higher resolution..?

or should i just skip the pixel-thing and go on with vectors and do it in illustrator? :D (just to avoid the resolution/size-problems)

(i'm afraid, this is a stupid question)
thanks for the help!

concreterocket on Sep 08 '08 at 6:43am

i do it in 22cmx22cm at 300 dpi

Lonkiponk on Sep 08 '08 at 7:11am

I usually make the design the cm size it would become when printed on the shirt, at 300 dpi.

Gar0 on Sep 08 '08 at 7:14am

My standard artwork template is 40 x 30 cm at 300 dpi.

My standard presentation template is 640 x 640 pixels at 90dpi.

ivejustquitsmoking on Sep 08 '08 at 7:17am

15x20 in 300 dpi max.. check out speedy joe's latest comment in valor and vellum's tutorial blog :)

fatheed on Sep 08 '08 at 7:45am

everything at 300dpi minimum.

fatheed on Sep 08 '08 at 7:46am

Sorry - not everything. The original artwork. My presentations are generally 72dpi seeing as most monitors don't perform above that resolution.

BaronVonMonkey on Sep 08 '08 at 7:47am

300dpi, at least as big as the design will be on the shirt, usually much bigger

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KongKlam on Oct 22 '08 at 7:22am

how do you scale it down, without losing details?

Jellyes on Oct 22 '08 at 8:31am

there are four image scaling options when you go to Image Size. it's initially on Nearest Neighbor, which is best for smooth gradients (it should tell you that), but when you use it for regular images, might make it look pixely.

I usually use bicubic reduction (I think that's the name), which, like it says, is best for reductions.

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