stupid question.. what size to make a JPG for a flyer?

[Ferret Lady]

I'm making a flyer... the kind that you put up on telephone poles... heh. anyways I know I want it printed on a full page, like 8.5 x 11, but how do i figure out how big the JPG file should be? like how many pixels by how many pixels?

[mikkowilson]

For good quality printing, you want to print at 300dpi.

so your image needs to be 300 x 8.5 by 300 x 11.


Photo quality printing of course is much higher.

- Mikko

[Ferret Lady]

oh, i didnt even think about the dpi thing... i'm assuming that's an option when creating a new file, i'll have to check when i get home.

i realized that i could choose 'inches' instead of pixels and so it was easy to make it 8.5 x 11. but thanks so much!

any chance there are tutorials somewhere, or tips, on makings a good flyer?

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

haha, welcome to photoshop! :)

[Kyle Stebbins]

oh, i didnt even think about the dpi thing... i'm assuming that's an option when creating a new file, i'll have to check when i get home.

i realized that i could choose 'inches' instead of pixels and so it was easy to make it 8.5 x 11. but thanks so much!

any chance there are tutorials somewhere, or tips, on makings a good flyer?

Definitely do not use Photoshop to put together a flyer. Photoshop is strictly a raster-based software, meant only to be used for images. Your flyer will not be an "image" per say, it will be a DOCUMENT.

Certainly edit your full resolution images in Photoshop, but do a great majority of the flyer design in InDesign. I promise that you will yield much greater results, and this will even allow you the ability to incorporate vector components in the future straight out of Illustrator.

Maybe you don't have these other programs, but I'd suggest you get them. As you can tell, I'm a bit of an Adobe proponent.
Yes, you can print flyers straight out of photoshop, but once you shrink your images down... they stay that resolution. You lose out on all the extra pixels you paid for when you bought that really nice DSLR camera. See what I mean?

Just a couple thoughts.