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11 minutes ago, MikeW said:

The printing company is smoking crack if they expect 300dpi. If the design is output at 100% size, they are going to print at a maximum of 150 dpi. And, using the Photoshop format, only the .psb format can contain a file that large at 300dpi. And it would need to be printed direct to their RIP which take a lot of time to process. That, printing direct using the .psb format, is doable with the right equipment, but I doubt they would actually do it as the RIP will do a great job with a smaller dpi (i.e., fewer pixels) anyway.

These days, PDFs are generally used at a scale such as 50% of print size. In the case of say a desired output of 150dpi at full scale, one would then use a document of 300dpi, which once the pdf is doubled in size to 100% would make the images/bitmap effects to be 150dpi.

Thanks very much for the info. 

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17 minutes ago, Alfred said:

You’re very welcome! Thanks for the update.

I’m afraid I’ve no idea.

Hopefully it will work well with Photoshop. The 300DPI is requested by the printing company. 

Thanks very much for your help again.

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35 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Reduce the DPI/PPI to 100. The long side will be less than 24,000 pixels and the printed output will look fine from as little as a metre away.

It works, finally. Thank you so much. 

Just one last question, is it true that Photoshop will rasterise or decrease the quality of all the vector lines/shapes?

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58 minutes ago, Alfred said:

You shouldn’t need 300 DPI for a canvas as big as that. Try changing the DPI/PPI value to 150.

 

I've tried to change it to 150DPI. Still no luck, got this error message "Warning! The PSD format supports images with a maximum dimension of 30,000 pixels.  Your document is too large to export". 

Thanks.

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Hi @MEB,

I need to export my work to PSD and send it to a printing company. Unfortunately, the canvas size is too big (6000x2440mm, 300DPI) and failed. Should I resize it to a  smaller canvas size? According to the printing company, they will open the PSD file in Photoshop and print it. What is the proper way/settings for export, please?

Thanks,

Axel

[Mask Layer issues in CMYK mode.]

Thanks very much for your help, Gabe. It works perfectly now. 

[Mask Layer issues in CMYK mode.]

Hi, I’ve experienced the following problem. The object in the pic (the church) still shown after the mask layer being applied. I’m trying to erase the bottom of the church using mask layer. Usually it can be done without any problems in RGB mode. But in CMYK mode (both Affinity Photo & Designer), I’ve got this problem. Is it a bug? Or anything to do with RGB / CMYK color mode? Thanks.