: I have to create a poster for a trade show booth. Is the photo I have to use too small in size? I have a very tight deadline to create a trade show booth poster in Adobe Illustrator. The

@Kristi927

I can't answer your question exactly as it is a subjective answer what you're expecting; but I can tell you with years of experience in trade show design that I nearly always had to massively interpolate images (sometimes by factor 10) used on trade shows and I know nobody who didn't.

Matter of fact is 2 things:


If your client is an extreme perfectionist he will always mention
something. Else not.
99% of people won't see a problem as they are not standing 5 centimeters ahead of it.


What you can do though is 3 things:

a) Zoom into 100% within your application and check the most
striking elements from within a realistic distance like 1.5 meters.
This will be the result you'll get - is that alright for you or not?

b) Often you can expand your given asset by adding elements on the
boundaries of it: If you got flat colors at the edge(s) of your
file, then open up PS > expand Canvas and gradually expand your
edges. That way your actual image gets "bigger" and you don't need
to scale it up that much anymore

c) Same technique: Add elements to
the edges of your file, like clouds or sky of other images to expand
the upper edge. Or add a sort of vignette to it so you can hide the
edges of your given file better.

Hope that helps

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