Jonathan Ziegler
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If it’s a layered photoshop file, find the layer it’s on and make corrections. If it’s a flat file, whatever is there may be permanent.
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Yes, larger banners can require fewer pixels per inch, but, again, talk to your printer. The image size is fine for May snapshots and should look great printed. Try some test shots.
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Is some type of press event or something? So green screen not practical?
Talk to local printers to see about printing an 8×8 banner both to get quotes and to get image file specs. The rest is all Photoshop. Oh make sure you have a way to attach the banner – might need grommets.
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I’m not sure what you asking. Specifically, what are you setting up? As for image resolution that depends on your photos and the size of the finals. More detail please.
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A fairly fast lens helps, but it won’t make up for a lack of light. Not sure on your camera, but try to find a reasonably noisy ISO (it won’t be noiseless, but there are levels of noise that can be less obtrusive). If you have a Harbor Freight or other cheap hardware supplier, look for a cheap power inverter that will do around 250-300W (or more) from a car battery and then run LEDs and Compact Fluorescents as they are low-wattage and put out decent light. You can use your car’s headlights, but don’t run the battery down or you’re staying there (get AAA?). There are also lots of LED panels out there that run on batteries. If there are sodium vapor lamps (the big orange ones), don’t be tempted to use them – the light is impossible to re-color and a giant pain to balance (once balanced it looks terrible anyway).
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Honestly, Photoshop is just not designed for the volume of work it sounds like you are doing. You should be creating your clips in Photoshop, then export for editing in something like Premiere, Vegas, Final Cut (Mac), or even After Effects. Premiere also has the hardware acceleration you need. Even though you can edit video in PS, I really don’t recommend it – it’s like using a sports car to tow a semi-trailer that keeps filling up – eventually it’s just gonna crawl and choke. The problem is that photoshop has to keep pretty much all frames in memory as a matter of design, whether displayed or not; while Premiere, as a video editor, has a much more advanced workflow for scrubbing and animation and shouldn’t choke with 3 hours worth of footage in the timeline.
Try some of the typical performance fixes: depending on which version you are on, switch to 64bit to access more RAM, clear out scratch disks, set undo level lower, set cache higher, use more RAM, press and hold Shift+Option+Cmd (Mac OS) or Shift+Alt+Ctrl (Windows) when you start up Photoshop to reset prefs, change performance settings, set to use hardware graphics acceleration if available, shut off any unused plugins, fonts, apps (Chrome eats up tons of processor time for example even when it’s not running!).
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Coca cola is the big example here: they have sued and won a few times where their logo appeared nonchalantly in the background, but prominent enough to be seen clearly. They claimed, among other things, dissolution of brand and, basically, misusing a registered trademark without permission. A logo or any other copyrighted or trademarked material is subject to laws. If the logo is unclear or blurred it’s not likely an issue. If you are shooting something for profit, it can be argued that you are attempting to use a logo fraudulently.
Mind you, these are preventative measures – the people who own the trademark or logo may never see your videos and if they did, they could throw a fit. Then again, they might not. It’s that unknown you are trying to mitigate.
As for YouTube, I’ve never had a video removed for content, but I have been denied monetization because of something in a video. I used part of a recording I was assured was public domain only to discover that another company disagreed. I lost monetization which was no big deal, but it was the whole point of the video. YouTube won’t do much: if someone flags your video and says there’s a copyright or other intellectual property issue, they will take down the video at the worst, but someone can still sue you. Doesn’t mean they’ll win, but it can still cost you.
One last thing: this is all based on my freelance, non-attorney, understanding of copyright and trademark law. If you’re really worried about it, I say get releases as often as possible (you really can’t go wrong by getting them) and talk to an IP lawyer – I can’t give you legal advice but they can.
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Overprint! yeah, I should have thought of that. I’ve done that a couple times, too. Glad it works for you now!
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Have you tried importing into photoshop? That’s what I usually do since illustrator’s raster abilities are not the greatest (imo).
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Can you quick export to another format? Like a small QuickTime or something? It sounds like it could be a graphics driver issue. Either you’re graphics acceleration is not working right or you’re not compatible. Not sure if this applies to ps cs6 though. Could also be a matter with your display. Photoshop memory allocation or scratch disk? Does pixelation happen anywhere else, too? A few guesses anyway.
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