I need to make a billboard and need help with image settings in PSD.

Hey forum,

I have a client that needs a billboard done. My only issue is taking their logo and enlarging it to a much larger size. How do I do this in photoshop to make the image have a nice resolution as the psd file is enlarged?

Thanks,

Mike

 

If it's a raster logo, you won't achieve a good quality when scaling the logo up. Either ask for vector files, or vectorize the logo yourself.
What resolution are you designing this billboard in?

 

Billboards should be done in Illustrator period.

 

You'll need it vectorized.

 

Thanks everyone. I'll do this in illustrator.

 

No problem upshift, if they don't have it in vector I have found the livetrace in CS3 to be a HUGE help, depends on how intricate the logo is.

 

I'd never recommend auto-tracing (LiveTrace etc) a logo.
For photos, automated methods are OK, but with logos they usually fail - the shapes are not properly recognized (for example a regular circle or ellipse), additional curve control points are inserted, etc. So it's much better to spend a bit more time on doing it manually - and properly.

 

^ I do agree, but the new livetrace in CS3 is really good, not perfect but good. Like I said, it depends on the logo design itself. Varlese have you tried it in CS3?

 

I did and it's ok for photos, cliparts, etc.
For logos containing defined geometrical shapes it doesn't produce satisfactory results.
And there are effects like gradients which are never properly auto-traced - they are built of several different colored shapes instead of one with proper color transition.
Fonts - they are usually slightly distorted (sharp corners are rounded, etc) which looks really bad.

I had a few clients contacting me and asking to fix the auto-vectorized logo they had received from other designers and not being happy with the results.