Adobe Photoshop Setting Up An A3 Poster

A3 You are required to produce a poster This poster needs to be A3 in size – twice the size of a normal (A4) piece of paper A3 size is 297mm × 420mm

Create a new Photoshop file

Set The File Details

Portrait A3

Landscape A3

Resolution 300 dpi (dots per inch) or ppi (pixels per inch) is the normal standard for printing documents – this means every inch across our picture will be made of 300 separate pixels of colour.

Colo(u)r If you are creating graphics for the internet, on a computer or for a mobile phone you use RGB colour. If you are creating graphics for print you use CMYK colour – so even though we are creating the graphics on a computer (RGB) the ultimate destination is print media. Note: in computer terms ‘colour’ is normally spelled ‘color’

Transparency Is Shown As Grey Squares