Hi all, I had already uploaded some prints to Etsy but suddenly realised I hadn't double checked file quality. I have spent HOURS today trying to get just one poster to an appropriate size. I thought I was getting somewhere but I've just run my pdf through a checker and it's showing only 1634.88 x 2293.12. I feel completely defeated! Let me explain the journey. I had an image in Midjourney, used subtle upscale and then exported to Upscayl where I used Upscayl standard and jpg (made the mistake of using a PNG file at first but file size exceeded 130MB). The image size showed as over 8000 x 9000 px. I updated my poster in Canva. When it came to downloading I couldn't do it as a PNG file as was restricted on size as I don't have Pro, the max I could download to as a PNG was 1587 x 2245. Instead I downloaded as a pdf flattened. I can't see the dpi for the pdf but when I zoom in the quality looks great but somehow the file size is only 1634.88 x 2293.12!!! I feel like I've wasted a whole day and got nowhere. I've searched in here and seen lots of great advice from previous posts. I 've been on chatgpt and doing as much research as I can but still left with a file I just can't use. So sorry for the long post but any step by step help would be SO appreciated. I feel like I'm learning a new language and completely failing! Thank you. P.S As a side note, I've seen that Print Shrimp prefer files in PNG but how can this be achieved without paying for canva pro as the PNG file size is limited.

Hi! I've recently started designing posters on Canva, with some using raster graphics - and I am a bit stuck trying to work out what A size (A5 - A0) the graphics would start to be noticeably pixelated. If anyone has any advice/ experience with using these it would be reallyy appreciated. A lot of my designs use quite big graphics (as in they fill up a lot of the page), so I am worried about the print quality for the bigger poster sizes. FYI I'm using custom size pages of 4961 x 7016 px and with the PDF print export if that helps. Thank you!

One of the things that I think would help me and others in this forum is an example jpg image of a poster with borders... a good example where we can see placement of text and the primary image (not an edge to edge image). Ideally an A0 would be great and I know that this can be subjective with anyone creating a border that they feel is suitable, however the idea is to demonstrate a complete JPG/PNG which has successfully printed and would allow a customer to frame the poster with adequate visible border surrounds and text on top and bottom (hope that makes sense!). Why? Because it's not clear to me where the best/ideal border and placement of the image(s) and text would be on the file in Canva when designing. If anyone is willing to give an actual example that could be uploaded to Canva, that would be amazing!

When i save a file on Photoshop as png, sometimes it's quite big( 80-90mb). It doesn't let me to upload on Printshrimp, so I have to save it as jpg to make it smaller. Will that reduce my print quality and make it more pixilated on bigger sizes( a3-a0) ?

I've been doing some test for image quality and getting a little worried. I'm Mac based, photoshop, Topaz Gigapixel for upscaler - although I've tried other options also. Using AI to make the art, currently ChatGPT is giving me the closest design I want, although I manipulate further in photoshop. Then I take to Topaz gigapixel and upscale. But when I zoom in to 100% size, I'm seeing fuzzy image quality, not the sharp lines I would want. I feel like I'm doing something wrong - but I've never gone to this size before. I had been selling things like frame TV art and desktop wallpapers, or doing graphic flyer designs, etc. I don't want to overthink things, but I don't want terrible quality either. When I get an image from say CGPT - what's my next step? I've been going all the way to A0 size - too much??