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: 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

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I have a very tight deadline to create a trade show booth poster in Adobe Illustrator. The size is 40" x 53.5". It is CMYK, 300 dpi.

One of the stock photos that I must use in it, which has been provided to me by the client (purchased on istock), needs to be scaled up in size (altho the resolution is thankfully ok, at 300 dpi). Basically the width and length of that photo is too small, and I have to scale it from about 5"x10" to about 12" x 26".

I am worried that this will print too pixelated. Does anyone know if it will look ok enough? I am unable to get in touch with the printer since it is for a large trade show through a client who can't figure out who the printer is. So I can't ask anyone any questions about it :(

It is for a kiosk so I think it will typically be viewed from 3 feet away. But even that I'm not able to find out.

To be honest, I don't see any photos on istock that would be the right substitute that would be large enough anyhow. Is there a database out there for poster sized stock?

THANKS!!!!

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@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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