need a poster printing service

[c.cloudwalker]

I've set up a simple poster in photoshop with smart objects so band members, venues, dates, etc can be changed fast and easy.

PS is not a design software. Use Illustrator or, at the very least, Quark or InDesign.

That said, for posters to advertise shows you could do shells. Shells are pre-printed in large quantities with all the colors you want. Then, when you have an actual show, you add the date, time, location, etc in black ink. You could even buy a large format printer to do the black ink yourself (some of those are quite cheap on the used market) but you need to make sure that the paper used to print the shells is compatible with the the printer you would use.

 

[RockstarPhotography]

I've set up a simple poster in photoshop with smart objects so band members, venues, dates, etc can be changed fast and easy.

PS is not a design software. Use Illustrator or, at the very least, Quark or InDesign.

That said, for posters to advertise shows you could do shells. Shells are pre-printed in large quantities with all the colors you want. Then, when you have an actual show, you add the date, time, location, etc in black ink. You could even buy a large format printer to do the black ink yourself (some of those are quite cheap on the used market) but you need to make sure that the paper used to print the shells is compatible with the the printer you would use.

I'll look into the shells....I've always used photoshop for my design's, Using smart objects I can go in and change whatever text I need to quite easily.

 

[KmH]

The issue with Photoshop is not so much doing the design, it's that Photoshop is a raster graphics (bitmap) application that uses pixels Raster graphics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and has limited scalability that can blur or pixelate excessively when resized.

While Illustrator is a vector graphics application that defines the graphics by mathematical equations that are, for all intents and purposes, infinitely scalable. Vector graphics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[RockstarPhotography]

I did not know that.....ok, guess my problem is I really don't want to have to learn another program!!!!....lol

 

[Robin Usagani]

yes and no. You can have vectors on photshop too. All the shapes and fonts are vectors.