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Creating a New poster:
Selecting
a file format
Getting
started on a Poster in PowerPoint
Creating
a Poster/Banner in Adobe Illustrator
Selecting a file
format
Selecting
the type of format to create your poster/banner
basically depends upon two factors - your level
of proficiency with the software (PowerPoint,
Illustrator, Photoshop or other) and the type
of text and graphics you intend to include in
your poster.
If you are a beginner and do
not have much experience creating posters and
need to create a poster with a simple layout,
text and graphics, creating one in PowerPoint
may be a good starting point. PowerPoint is also
a good option if you are creating a poster to
display scientific, technical data using graphs
etc. The advantages of PowerPoint are that it
has a simple interface and allows fast and easy
laying out and manipulation of text and graphics.
The disadvantages are that it doesn’t allow
a page size greater than 56” (in both length
and width) and has limited options if you need
to tweak / fine-tune text and images.
If you want to create a more
professional looking poster or one with more fancy
text effects, images and Vector graphics, Adobe
Illustrator would be an excellent option. Illustrator
has number of powerful features that allow you
to insert and edit images, text and create flexible
and high quality vector based graphics. Illustrator
is also a good choice for creating large banners.
For creating posters that
predominantly contains images and minimal or no
text, Adobe Photoshop may be a good choice. Photoshop
can handle a variety of raster graphic file formats
(PSD, png, gif, jpeg, tiff etc.), allows conversion
from one format to the other, has features useful
in editing image colors, resolution, brightness
and contrast, and has a variety of image filters
to apply effects to images. The major limitation
of in Photoshop is the size of the file created.
Even a reasonably small, yet high-resolution (300
ppi and above) poster created in Photoshop can
have a file size running into 100s of MBs. Therefore
you may want to optimize the resolution and image
dimensions while working in Photoshop to keep
the file size under check .
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