I am currently working on the artwork for what will be a large wall mural at 414"x142". I'm working at 150dpi so the resolution looks good even when close up.
Naturally, I keep getting the Scratch Disc Full message.
Any advice or sugguestions on which Adobe program I can work in without error? PhotoShop gives me this message and Illustrator straight up crashes.
Hi @Team Southgate why are you working in such a large scale? If this is for large format printing, you need to contact your printer as to what scale you should work at. Most large format prints are 100 ppi scaled down even if you expect people to view from less than 5 ft.
A base image that size is over 3 GB in storage so you'd need a couple of TB scratch disk space, but even then your CPU and GPU will struggle to keep up with that large of a file.
Next time you walk past a standard desktop monitor (non 4K/retina), take a closer peek. Get really close! Look for pixels. Do you see any? Does it look blurry?
That monitor will be around 90 ppi. That's the amount of detail you get at 90 ppi, when you get right up close to it.
You could reduce that number to 70 ppi or so and get the same impression. A 90 ppi monitor is just a very illustrative example.
The point I'm trying to make is that people always overestimate the ppi needed for large prints, and as a result they end up with mammoth files that are completely unmanageable.
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