Hi guys,
can someone recommend what canvas size to use if I want to ultimately print out in A3. would i use A3 size or would i go bigger and reduce size when my image is complete (please give dimentions if so) sorry if is a silly question.
andi mcnoob.
Andi,
3508px x 4961px at 300ppi is A3 size, that’s what I would work on.
That should be ok for printing out at A3. If your system can handle it, increasing the ppi slightly to 350ppi - 400ppi will give you higher quality but a lot will depend on the surface you are printing on.
You could easily start at a lower resolution for large areas and brushes and then increase it to 300ppi or more later when you only have to work on smaller details.
the most important thing is to make sure that you are at a minimum of 300dpi. if you use 72dpi no matter how big of a canvas you go, it will not look good in print.
I am on a Mac Pro G5 10.5.6 with 4GB RAM and 2 graphics cards. I am working on a .psd file: 615MB 9742 x 13122 pixels. Is this too large to work with in Painter X?
If I close all the other apps, it seems like things run smoothly for a while, but ultimately everything slows down and I get the spinning beach ball for long periods of time. I have also assigned an external 1TB drive for memory and scratch
Does anyone know definitively how large of a file one can bring into Painter ?
I am so disappointed in Painter X’s ability to handle this file size! Is anyone else having similar problems , any work arounds besides the obvious? Would flattening the image help?
thanks…jana
sorry if I posted this in the wrong place…I forgort how to work this forum!!!
I spent some time this afternoon playing around in painter with the file size you are having a problem with. First off your document is 32.43 x 43.74 at 300 dpi, that’s huge.
I didn’t experience much of an issue, but I can definitely see how that could happen as you add more and more layers.
I don’t know why your file size is so large but I will assume it’s for a good reason.
I normally work at a 1.5:1 ratio so my files are always big. but I’ve never worked on anything that needed to be that big.
I can suggest that you try to work on a smaller size and enlarge the file as you near completion or drop layers and try to keep the program from bogging down.
If you need to work so large it might be a good idea to restart the program every couple of hours while working.
The problem is your machine. It’s too powerful fro painter. Everyone is hoping that the next version of painter will support large amounts of RAM and the multiple processors that are commonplace in todays’ computers.
Hope this helps.
DV
Thank you so much for trying out the file size. The file was assembled in PS CS3, a collage of actual pieces of traditional art that I scanned in @ 1200 dpi. “eeek” I know what you must be thinking…but, I am a traditional painter and I use big pro printers and I got the idea to perhaps print some of these pieces really large on canvas and then actually paint on top in certain places, etc. Some of the pieces are so small, that I decided to scan them at a high res.
The other dumb thing that I did, I guess, was to bring them into painter with at least 20 layers . I just assumed that Painter would behave like PS and would be fantastic because of my new Mac pro!!
I am surprised that Corel would design a Paint program as sophisticated as this in the brush dept. and totally overlook other important aspects such as file size, newer Mac compatibility and current PS versions. This is so basic and important for professionals! I will never upgrade again without trying out the program. Furthermore, they are emphasizing compatibility with Adobe PS.
I am also irritated that they are not documenting file sizes…I think that this is a big mistake.
BTW, what computer are you working on??
thanks so much…jana
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