Different tips on formatting posters on a practical basis
However, if you follow the tips below, I assure you that your format and layout will be practical, effective and even eye catching.
• Place a design anchor first – One very practical thing to do first in formatting your color posters is to place a design anchor. A design anchor is a big design feature that will serve as a reference for the rest of your design elements.
This can be your main background image, a border or even the title. Whatever your anchor is, you should place it precisely where you want it to be. From there, it should really be easy to add your other design elements. This should make your design process a little bit faster and of course help you produce more effective poster designs.
• Finish processing images first – Another good practical tip to do for formatting is to finish processing your images first. Typically, people process their images by cropping, scaling, filtering and adding other features into their images and graphics. For a proper formatting practice, it is good to do all these processing steps first before you actually place things about in your design. This helps a lot in minimizing mistakes in your design since you will already be adding proper ready-to-print images once you do your layout and formatting. You would not want an unprocessed image to get through to poster printing right? So always process your images first to have your output turn out a lot better.
• Always place some empty spaces for text – Another important and practical formatting tip is to always place some empty spaces in your design. Many people make the mistake in just dumping a lot of images and texture elements to their color posters, forgetting that text will be placed above them at some point. This can sometimes spawn conflicts in spacing since some text might overlap important image or graphic elements that will hamper the poster message. So as a good formatting practice, always have an idea on where your text will be and provide some empty space for that. Trust me, it will save you a lot of trouble.
• Type and load your text – Finally, one great tip in formatting is to type the content first and then load it up into your design for formatting. This is a better move to make since it makes developing your text content faster. You do not need to edit your text within the design since this will be time consuming while at the same time spawning many more conflicts in design than it solves. By preparing the text content first, you can treat the text as a single design element that can be easily formatted without the hassle of extra editing.
Therefore, that is how you can be practical and effective with formatting your posters. Try this out in your own formatting process for poster printing. Good Luck!
