Why must customers design banners in photoshop

[Banners Signs Etc.]

Bringing in a 3in x8in thing on a thumb drive and wondering why it looks crappy as a 3'x8'.

It would be one thing if it was made to actual size, or high enough res to blow up...but seriously you think these crap 1 inch logos you found on google are gonna do it?
and your tiny strokes?
and RGB
and you think it should be cheaper because you designed it?!!


I would hardly call myself a designer of anything but basic yard signs and banners but SHEESH I know what I need as a production guy.

Don't even get me started on grammatical errors.


I'm sure someone will tell me I'm just a photoshop noob and all I have to do is press ctrl-alt-] and then shift-***

I feel better now thank you

 

[genericname]

My favourite is "it's the best quality I could find", before telling the client it's going to look like garbage, only to be met with "Oh, here, how's this vector logo?" after issuing a proof.

If all it took was five minutes to ask your graphics guy for the proper logo, then it wasn't the "best you could find"; you just didn't look.

Ugh.

 

[SightLine]

We get it all the time too.... I try to explain that even though it's nice and big on screen that when at 150DPI the print size is less than 1" across they just get upset. We do prefer RGB though. Much wider color gamut and our Mimaki (even though it's CMYK inks) has a much greater color range than CMYK designs are capable of. CMYK limits you and makes files unneccesarily large.

 

[Banners Signs Etc.]

We do prefer RGB though. Much wider color gamut and our Mimaki (even though it's CMYK inks) has a much greater color range than CMYK designs are capable of. CMYK limits you and makes files unneccesarily large.

I did not know this...our versaart really doesn't like rgb it prints splotchy.
Something to look into...but being that cmyk and rgb look at color theory differently I guess it would come down to how the printer translates it into a cmyk world?

 

[Mosh]

"What do you mean you can't just copy and paste my logo off the interweb? Looks good on my computer..."

 

[SebastienL]

I see you never got a banner "designed" in Word or Powerpoint!!

Or even better; Publisher!!

 

[allamericantrade]

I get tons of designs in RGB. I printed a CMYK chart out and put on the wall to color match a customers RGB to the CMYK interpretaion of our machine.

 

[stickerman12]

Seems like we have been getting a lot of powerpoint files lately. Drives me nuts.

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

I get a lot of doc., files my computers don't even open them. I just did some 2'x3' signs today they gave me the art work from the web, I used photozoom to get them to look as good as possible, to me the signs look like shyt but the customer loved them, go figure.

 

[binki]

Our biggest problem, well 2 of them, but the worst is having to do 4 color process when the colors are spot colors and the second worst is design that is just awful.

 

[xxaxx]

The thread title should be dumb clients that don't know how resolution works ... you don't need to bash pshop for them, it makes amazing banners in the right hands.

But that being said, I do hate when that happens and it seems to be a constant.