: Making extremely large screenshots Hello fellow designers. I have to make a banner promoting a mobile application. The banner size is 80x200 cm. So, normal screenshots of the application screens

@Holmes874

You don't need to create a giant screen shot. You need to take a screen shot, then enlarge it to fit your banner. Which is fine. There's no need to recreate the screen shot. It's a screen shot. It's OK if its a bit pixelated (especially at the size of a banner)

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@Nimeshi706

In most cases, for high quality work, you need to recreate the screens. I wouldn't mess with any auto tracing even if it was an option.

I'd take some standard screen shots, place them in Illustrator to use as a guide, then manually recreate the elements. This may take more time and be a good deal of work depending upon what you need. However, this is really the best way to ensure fantastic end results when needing anything of that final size.

There simply is no "trick" which is going to work well when trying to show a mobile screen on a banner/billboard. But you should be aware that most large scale printing is done at low resolution (150ppi or even lower). Depending on how you plan on producing the banner, you may want to speak with the production company about resolutions needed.

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@Pierce403

If you're on a Mac you can use the Paparazzi screenshot app it's free and takes full website length screenshots.

Other screenshot commands on Mac are:


Full Screen Command+Shift+3
Selection Command+Shift+4
Window Command+Shift+4 Release then press Spacebar


These screenshots will all be saved to your desktop

If you add Control to any of the above commands the screenshot will only be saved to your clipboard and you can then paste it right into Photoshop or any other app.

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@LarsenBagley460

Go fullscreen (f11). Zoom in with your browser (ctrl + wheel) and take multiple screenshots and combine them later in Photoshop. Pretty straight forward and easy.

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