Photoshop :: Working With Large Projects
May 20, 2009
I just got a new job doing web development. They asked me at the interview if I knew enough Photoshop to do some basic stuff - crop, resize, export images. I thought I did, but the Photoshop files they are working with are really huge. Whole websites are laid out in thousands of layers, and those layers are organized into layer groups, but not always as logically as one might expect/hope.
Anyway, here's what I'm needing to do, and I was really hoping there might be a magical, easy way to accomplish this. The website is oriented into boxes/sections/modules - call 'em what you will - and each module has info in it. I really just need to select the one section and either create a new project consisting of just those layers, or a way to export just those layers.
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Nov 22, 2011
I am curious to know how other people create and produce vehicle graphics. I have had a tremendous amount of difficulty using CorelDRAW X5 for producing large vehicle graphics such as city busses and large tractor/trailer rigs and box trucks.
My basic workflow is to begin with a vehicle outline and actual measurements, create the full scale artwork, slice the art into 53" wide panels, and send to the printer RIP as PDF-X3.
For smaller projects this workflow works adequately, however, larger projects become such agonizing hassles I want to take up a new career. Due to the huge amount of lost time due to corrupt files, repeated crashes, software reinstalls, tedious work-arounds, etc. I feel I have no choice but to switch to a different software, most likely Adobe Illustrator.
John Fawcett - Senior Graphic Artist, Visual Marking Systems, Inc., Twinsburg, OH USA- Corel user since v3
MacBook Pro 15", Intel Core i7 2.2 GHz, 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM,Intel HD Graphics 3000, 500 GB SATA HD,
Magic Mouse, Mad Catz R.A.T.7 mouse
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, Dual Quad-core Intel Xeon 2.0GHz, 12 GB DDR3 RAM,
Dual 320 GB SATA HD, GeForce GTS 250 1GB video, Dual monitors, Mad Catz
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Aug 20, 2009
I'm currently working on a huge image and remembered that a version of Photoshop used to have the function that would allow you to open one section of a huge image at a time to work on. From what I can recall you used to go to open the image and a Navigator looking window would pop up and you'd choose which area of the image you would like to work on, click ok and it would load just that area. Is this feature still around?
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Oct 27, 2005
We are having some banners printed over vynil. the art work consist of images of women in lingerie and the brand´s logo. Most of the artwork is 28" x 40" but sometimes we work with larger and odd formats (41" x 168"). The shop that we work with told me to send them the artwork for large formats as tiff @ 85 dpi. I never work below 150 and try to be close to 300dpi when possible.
For example I am sending them a file which is 20" x 48" and for me at 85dpi it looks lousy. Although at 100% it looks fine on the screen.
I arrange my images and logos in freehand (working with photohop and large formats on my PC is painfully slow) and then from there I usually export my artwork as EPS with all the images embeded. (this saves me time)
This particular shop said that they dont want the files in eps
format.
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Nov 18, 2005
I'm going to take a family portrait photo and touch it up a little before printing it. Thing is ... I will be printing at least a size 16'' by 20'' photo. I'm not familiar with working with images this large. When I have it printed I want to be sure that the photo looks clear/normal.
I would appreciate any advice anyone could give me in regard to...
1) What color mode works best for quality printing results
2) How I should crop for best results
3) How to save file to ensure best printing results
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Jan 11, 2007
My questions is this: What should I do cut down the almost frozen status of my computer when Im working with gigantic canvas sizes AND 300DPI?
the project in question is a 6 foot x 3 foot banner, that will be printed out, so the DPI has gotta be 300.....
but when im doing the simplest things, paint bucketing, using the paintbrush, it "loads" for a good few minutes for each move... at this rate, Im going to finish sometime 2 years after the deadline.
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Nov 2, 2012
Here's the error message i keep getting.
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Problem signature:
 Problem Event Name:         APPCRASH
 Application Name:         Photoshop.exe
 Application Version:         13.0.1.0
 Application Timestamp:         5022da52
 Fault Module Name:         Photoshop.exe
 Fault Module Version:         13.0.1.0
 Fault Module Timestamp:         5022da52
 Exception Code:         c0000005
 Exception Offset:         00b1a653
 OS Version:         6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
 Locale ID:         1033
 Additional Information 1:         0a9e
 Additional Information 2:         0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
 Additional Information 3:         0a9e
 Additional Information 4:         0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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Sep 4, 2011
Currently working on a very large scene with many city sized buildings. The viewport ( DX9 ) seems to constantly flicker even with 2 seperate objects that are a considerable distance apart.
Is it simply a matter of not having floating point and im working in the thousands of inches ( system scale )? Is there any solution? Renders are fine but it's going to give me a seizure every time I rotate the viewport camera!
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Dec 2, 2012
I'm currently designing a full size film poster for a client. The dimensions of the poster are 27" x 40" (industry standard film poster).I am a little uncertain in working with large files in Illustrator, so I have several problems that have come up in several design projects using similar large formats.
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The file size is MASSIVE. This poster uses several large, high-res images that I've embedded. I didn't want them to pixelate, so I made sure they were high quality. After embedding all these images, along with the vector graphics, the entire .ai file is 500MB. How can I reduce this file size? Can I do something with the images to make the .ai file smaller? I made my artboard 27" x 40" - the final size of the poster. Is this standard practice? Or when designing for a large print format, are you supposed to make a smaller, more manageable artboard size, and then scale up after to avoid these massive file sizes? Â
I need to upload my support files for the project, including .ai and .eps - so it won't work if they're 500MB. This would be good info to understand for all projects I think.
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Mar 22, 2012
I am working with some very large images in X5, ~ 2500 mm x 1200 mm at up to 600 DPI sometimes. (And before you say it, yes, I do need this. It is a very specific application that we work on daily and I do need the ability to basically control every single pixel at that size & that resolution). I'm using WinXP 32-bit (company mandate).
When I need precisely sized objects, I am using CorelDRAW and occasionally when I need pixel perfect placement, PhotoPaint gets the call. The images may go through both before it runs through a final backend processor (some specialized software) and then going to print.
The problem is that I am running into limits when I go beyond 300 DPI (depending on the image dimensions). For example, CorelDRAW often will fail to export a TIFF correctly when I try a 450 DPI image at that size (some TIF file comes up but nothing can load it, it's corrupted). Or for even smaller images, if I enable transparent background, I also get a similar problem. Sometimes, e.g. Photo Paint, just chokes up with out of memory problem and fails to load images at all.
Thing is, we actually have Photoshop CS5 available and while there are many things I don't like about it, it actually can handle stuff of this size. So there is also a push to get Illustrator as well under the same assumption that it will work. However, Adobe stuff is way more expensive, feels more bloated and slower and (for me at least) a pain to use compared to Corel, so I'd rather not.
Would moving to 64-bit WinXP work? Or would I need to go to CorelDRAW X6? This is already a quad-core machine with 4GB of RAM.
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May 4, 2012
when I am working on a large drawing and/or pasting as a block, all the grey lines (colour 8) turn to white. When I select a grey line, it flicks back to grey, but de-select, and it's white again.
If I toggle on hardware acceleration, the problem is fixed for a short while, and also if I turn it off, it is fixed for a short while, and also if I save, close and re-open it's good untill I paste a block....
I suspect it may be because of my setup and an un tested graphics card:
Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate - running through bootcamp on a macbook pro
Autocad 2012 Lt
Machine Configuration
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Processor Speed : 2.2 GHz
RAM : 8103 MB
3D Device
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Name : AMD Radeon HD 6750M
Manufacturer : AMD
Chip set : Radeon HD 6750M
Memory : 707 MB
Driver : 8.17.0010.1063
Your machine contains a 3D Device that is not certified.
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Mar 10, 2013
I am looking to create a collage made from 100 photos (all taken high res) to be printed large, approx 120cm x 50cm. To be able to print this size I need to keep the high resolution and hence looking for a large file output.
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Nov 20, 2007
I created alot of web design and other projects in school with photoshop in 72dpi for the web.
I would like to print these for a physical portfolio.
Is there any way I could print these in good quality without recreating in 300 dpi...(couldnt do it because they are too detailed and precise to recreate exactly)
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Jul 28, 2007
I am doing a football program. It will be a standard 8.5x11 background page that will have small boxes of each senior, along with a box at the bottom of the photo that has their name and position. Sounds easy enough, I know. I came up with the idea to make a "Sr. Player Block" template with a block (just a rectangle shape) set at the bottom of the page which would allow me to pick the players image, arrange it to where it goes to the back so the block will show, adding their name and position on it, and then I was planning on flattening and saving each block and moving it to the background page. My problem is, is that when I open the actual photo, which looks great, nice and clear, to the block template, it gets pixalated and looks fuzzy! I have also noticed the same problem on some family program ads i have attempted, the photos I have opened (that get opened in a different little box look fine, but when i move them they look blurry...
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Apr 27, 2013
I have CS6 and a Savin printer. I have recently run into issues of it turning my projects a funky shade. I took the file to the office store and it printed fine for them. My printer is printing other jobs great but the trouble just appears with PShop.
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Apr 15, 2008
I'm working on a project, and I want to open another file (perhaps to drag it into said project). So I go to the Bridge and I double-click on the file, and it opens up, taking up the whole workspace like it should. HOWEVER, when I click the downsize button (to make it a smaller movable window) it makes it a smaller window in the top left corner, but I can't move it and I can't see my other project that's supposedly behind it. I have to maximize it, and then totally minimize it to see whatever is behind it.
Sometimes something really weird happens (I don't know if it's because I did something different or not). When I click the downsize button, the window totally disappears. No smaller window, no bar at the bottom. I can still see the document in the Navigator, however. To get it back, I usually just quickly create a new document, then exit out of it, and my original project that I was working on is back again.
I would really like to be able to just click that downsize button to have multiple movable smaller windows so I can easily drag stuff from one project to another.
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May 28, 2013
how can i auto save the project were i am working on?Still abode goes down sometime.How to save automaticly each 15 min fe?
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Aug 23, 2013
I will soon have access to Premier Pro at a local Public TV Provider. I am considering purchasing Premier Elements for my home computer. I was wondering if I could do a rough cut using Premier Elements and then polish it using Premier Pro?
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Jan 12, 2014
I have Photo Shop Premiere Elements 7 and just updated to 12 can I transfer my projects from the older version to Photo Shop Premiere Elements 12?
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Mar 18, 2013
1) I created a slide show project in Photoshop elements 9 which was not completed. I saved the project but now I can not find it on my computer. I see that I've used up all my storage space (2gb). Will I find my project if I purchace more storage space?
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Jun 21, 2013
Every-time I save something in PSE 11 that has text or graphics, I feel like the clarity is not even remotely close to what I was seeing in PSE. The whole thing often has a blurry/pix elated look to it. I am sure that any graphics are large files for clarity and in PSE 11 they appear very clear and sharp, I am usually saving in .png The resolution is 300.
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What can I do to make sure that they save crystal clear and sharp so that once they are uploaded (to somewhere like Facebook for a timeline cover) that they don't loose that sharpness to text and graphics that I see in PSE? What is the best format to save in? I don't have this issue with pictures I am editing, it seems to just be stuff I am making.
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Oct 25, 2013
Ever since I switched to Photoshop Elements 10 and subsequently 11 (both are on my computer), I have been unable to add music media.
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I copied ALL of my music CDs to my hard drive and to my iphone etc. They are there and I can play them. I have been unable to add my music. For example this is what happens when I am in Photoshop Elements 10 slideshow:
  * ADD MEDIA
  * Audio from folder
  * iTunes
  * iTunes Media
  * Music from CDs
  * every folder I try returns the message "no items match your search".
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Nov 6, 2012
I recently downloaded Photoshop Touch to my tablet. Am I able to retrieve saved projects that I have done with Touch from Creative Cloud and continue editing them in PSE 10?
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Dec 17, 2012
I want to create the effect a clipping mask would have, but for use as an overlay for a motion graphics project, I've tried various methods but the problem I can't resolve is how to do it with the translucent solid color layer as well. I want the text to show right through the gradient tot he video elements it will be laid over, almost like the text was written with an eraser.
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Apr 1, 2011
I have created two projects, it now seems sensible due to subject to add these two edited projects together to form one project and burn to DVD.
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Sep 29, 2012
I wanted to split a clip, but I've split a project (after 4 minutes). Now, when I want to insert an audio file, it stops playing after 4 minutes although it's much longer. Every new project is also split and I cannot insert music. It stops playing after 4 minutes. I have found the explanations about splitting the clip, but nothing about the splitting the whole project. How can I make my new projects "entire" and insert the full-lenght audio?
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Oct 4, 2011
How can I combine two projects in Video-Studio X4?
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Jan 28, 2012
Is there a way of assembling several projects on the same time line in order to create a compilation video then re editing them to create a new project. The only way I can fiqure is to make a video file of each project and then edit together. not a very flexable way of working.
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Feb 27, 2013
I've observed that VS X5 usually keeps at least 4 levels of last-used project files - some of the time. But I notice that from one day to the next, that last used list can disappear, irregularly.
In another piece of software (unrelated) I use, a scan history log gets kept in a temp file, which lasts only until the next time a cleaner like Cclean goes looking for all those .tmp files and similar, to clean up all the leftovers on a machine that clutter up its HDD space and slag its performance.
Does VS X5 do something similar for the last used project files?
If vendors have to ape MS in this sort of user friendly facility, they can at least put the data in a space that's unique to the application. I've never noticed that MS was guilty of losing the last files used details - pity the copiers cannot do the same.
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Nov 5, 2012
I'd like to know if there's a software or plugin that allows you to (semi-) automatically create MEP projects, e.g.:
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(Electrical)
Once you have the masonry, you position the wall switches and plugs (set the type, wattage, etc), and the program automatically projects the wiring through the shortest route, including the gauge and protection, and possibly even the switchbox.
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The same basic concept could be applied for hydraulic and air also, however, depending on the dimensions the program would need you to inform the areas/walls where it can place ducts/plumbs.
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Sep 29, 2013
This website provides what looks to be free textures. You read for yourself and decide. You can't come back and say i said it was ok. I thought there was a section for this, but couldn't find it.
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