creating a brochure!

ChicoMendez

Im not a graphic designer
If a want to create a brochure. images i use have to be high def 300 dpi right?
therefore i cannot get images off the web.
what are my options besides taking the photos my self??????

DadaKopf

It all depends on the size of the original web image and the size it's printed at.

Maximum screen resolution is 72dpi. If you boost the image's resolution to 300dpi (required print resolution), the image size increases but not the print size. Therefore the quality doesn't improve, and the print size will be the largest you can go. It'll look bigger on the screen, but the resolution boost just means more dots per inch in an image exactly the same size.

In a practical sense, if you have QuarkXpress and you import an image, the size of that image (100%) is really the maximum you can go, smaller is fine, bigger: NO. If using Photoshop, notice the difference in size between 'print size' and 'actual pixels' size.

Your best bet, then, it to:
1] download the biggest images you can find off the net, keeping in mind the size you require in the brochure
2] take your own photos
3] buy stock photos off the web
4] get stock photos from free stock photo websites [like here or somewhere.
5] scan images in from a magazine or book (bearing in minf copyright violation)
6] get an illustrator to do illustrations.

You could always pay a graphic designer - a real one - to do it properly.

ChicoMendez

so what size image would u suggest would be adequate if i want the image to cover half of an A4 page?

Figment

Feckin hell ChicoMendez. CD rom, web development, Brochure Design. Is there anything you are not doing?
Leave some work for the rest of us designers

My favourite of the stock sites and its practicly free: http://www.istockphoto.com/

half an A4
cmyk
300dpi
21cm X 14.85cm
2480px X 1754px

DadaKopf

iStock is good but don't you gotta pay after the first few?

Figment

Yes, but very, very little.

ChicoMendez

Cheers Figment. btw ill throw my hand at anything if theres a sale at the end of it.

Know much about Cinema 4D and designing landscapes by any chance???



L8r

Figment

No but i do know about 3d Max and architecture if its any good. Same principles im sure.

Al

DadaKopf

Originally posted by ChicoMendez
Im not a graphic designer
If a want to create a brochure. images i use have to be high def 300 dpi right?
therefore i cannot get images off the web.
what are my options besides taking the photos my self??????

Then hire a graphic designer. If you posted this on www.creativeireland.com, they'd lambaste you. Would you get a plumber to perform heart surgery?

There are hundreds of qualified designers in Dublin who need work. They're underappreciated and overskilled but clients simply don't understand the role they play in the world.

Sure, you could do it yourself but it'll look unprofessional and, quite frankly, bad. You *could* hire a graphic designer, pay a little more for the service but be safe in the knowledge you're getting a quality product and someone who knows the ins and outs of printing. You client-types don't understand that spending that extra bit of money actually improves business because image is important and no one wants to deal with jokers.

But I don't care, I'm not a designer. Knock yourself out but go make your brochure with the knowledge that you're hurting the design community and yourself.

ChicoMendez

ok figment

i need an image of size...

2480px X 1754px

however on any of those stock sites the pics are usually about 1000 x 1000 ....

can i just enlarge those images and use those??

Figment

You will have to buy a hi res image.

ChicoMendez

i get you!
but if i enlarge a 1500 x 1500 image will the quality be compromised that much???

beaver

You're talking about scaling an image up by a certain percentage.

Why don't you just take a smaller image and scale that up by the same percentage and see if the quality becomes unsatisfactory?

DadaKopf

You NEVER go above 100% of print size at 300dpi (if you're output res is 300dpi).

p

Originally posted by ChicoMendez
Cheers Figment. btw ill throw my hand at anything if theres a sale at the end of it.

That's the spirit!

Anyone want some Tosheba DVD players, just 50 euro!

Figment

beaver

Originally posted by DadaKopf
You NEVER go above 100% of print size at 300dpi (if you're output res is 300dpi).

I disagree. IMO it totally depends on the image and it's usage.