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JeffreyW wrote:
Quick question - when I have the final design, should I merge all layers and flatten?
Thx again
Definitely not. Leave all layers intact, and export to PDF using the High Quality Print preset. I am not going to say much about colour as it is not my area of expertise. I give my artwork to a friend printer as sRGB, and he converts to CMYK and does a test print for me.
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The white backgrounds are incredibly easy to remove just using the Magic wand, which is all I used for my
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I am also not sure what a guitar tab is, but Google tells me that it might be an illustration of strings and frets with finger positions. As others have said, this is your design, so I don't know what you are asking. Will you create the guitars with Photoshop, or use photographs? How big will each guitar appear on the poster?
Because it is impossible not to throw at least some sort of idea at you, I thought of the entire background with the LP wood grain and dark gradient outside. If this is indeed what a tab looks like, I have inlaid a large tab into the background. We can answer specific questions btw.
Trevor,
Thx for the reply.
I plan on using the guitar tab (inserted below) as the background.
Then I am going to paint 5 Les Paul guitars (like below - changing the color each time) and stack them one above the other with some space between each guitar (I plan on using guides to help space them). As you asked, how big should each guitar appear on the poster? I assume after I'm done painting each guitar I can free transform each guitar to the same appropriate size on the poster? I'm assuming it's WYSIWYG as what I see on screen (image size wise) is what will be printed out for the final image. Just want to make sure the image size for the guitars are correct before printing the poster.
Thx
JeffreyW wrote:
I plan on using the guitar tab (inserted below) as the background.
Then I am going to paint 5 Les Paul guitars (like below - changing the color each time)
Thx
The background you currently have does not have the amount of pixels you need for a 3 foot by 2 foot poster and it also does not have a 3:2 aspect ratio. You need more pixels if you want that music to cover the major portion of your 3'x2' 150 to 200DPI canvas.
Your guitar images will not be filling a major part of your poster's canvas. So the number of pixels you have for your guitars images is fine. However, the image is a bit soft IMO and could use some sharpening. It also has a white background which should be removed. The image should then be saved as a png with a transparent background. That png file can be placed placed into of poster sized and positioned via the Place transform. Once you have the 5 placed guitars positioned and sized the way you want you can add adjustment layers clipped to a guitar layer to color the guitar the way you want.
The sharpen Guitar png may look something like this.
Using Google Image search with its 'Larger than' filter set to 20Mp still gets a lot of hits, and is the biggest size filter that gets any meaningful results. Or are you photographing the guitar(s)?
JeffreyW wrote:
I'm not finding larger images of the guitar with a white/black background in which I could cut out the guitar and then place into the canvas. I may have to go with more guitars on the canvas at lower image sizes to fill up the canvas. However, when I paint the guitars I should be good as I can create those painting at a much larger image size that will scale well in the 18 x 24 canvas.
Thx again
Crikey. Just how big do you want this file to be? And how are you going to arrange the guitars on the poster? There is a huge selection of suitable instruments at the 20Mp size I suggested earlier. I arranged and sized them so that the necks were the same length (which was a guess) and the resulting file is 10.5 x 7k pixels, which at 36 x 24 inches is barely short of the ideal 300ppi. You are home and dry Jeffrey.
Looking at your post #8 again, the tablature is still a stumbling block. By going up size filters one step at a time, the largest relevant file I could find was this one that still falls well short. If it was me, I couldn't possibly even think about proceeding with this project without creating vector version of the tablature. The staves are easy to create, and there are lots of musical notation fonts out there, but the image you posted in #8 is so tiny I can't even see it well enough to remake it as a vector.
How crucial is this particular sheet music, and do you have it as hard copy you could photograph, or even scan (at 600dpi)? If you find the thought of vectorising the music daunting, I suspect that if you supplied a better original, it might magically get done for you.
I notice you actually say Guitar 'tabs' plural, so if you were OK with using a bunch of them artfully arranged in the background, the size is not nearly so important.
http://musictheoryforguitar101.com/index_files/PDF/SamplePage_SheetMusic2016.jpg
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