Finding Large Stock Photos for 20 ft backdrop in Illustrator

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March 11, 2022
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Hello - I am working on a 20 ft backdrop for a client. I am wanting to put a large photo in the design. However, not even good quality stock photos are large enough and are grainy. Where are any of you finding large enough photos to be able to add to large backdrops??

Thanks!

Katie

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Kenneth Kawamoto

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You need about 20ppi for 20ft wide image, so you'd need 4,800px wide image. Stock photos are usually larger than that.

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ketkatAuthor

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Oh really?! I was under the impression I would need around 100 ppi still. This is good news. So essentially when up close the image would look blurry, but as a person steps back from the backdrop it would appear to be clear. And the image I would need is actually around 12ft wide, the entire backdrop is 20ft wide. So for 12 ft wide, what should my ppi be?

Thank you!

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ketkatAuthor

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If they need some arbitrary minimum, you could resample a lower PPI image in Photoshop.

What do you mean by this? Walk me through what I would need to do?

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