Outdoor Banner

[thorny spoke]

Hi all, new user here, I have been using Adobe Express for a few months to create stuff to help my Motorcycle Racing Club and its going well. However I need a bit of advice please, I want to create a Banner to use outdoors about 2m x 1m and I am struggling to find which option/template to use? I then want to sent it to the printers for them to print me 2 Banners off for use at our Race Circuit, there only advice was it needs to be at least 300dpi and saved as 300dpi.
Any help of how to get started and which options/template to do this would be fantastic.

Thank you in advance.
Lee

[unique stirrup]

First of all, you absolutely need to ask your printer.
People rarely design at full size when designing for large formats, and ceratin printers may ask for a ceratin ratio (say 1/4) while others may ask for something else. They will tell you the size in pixel that they want, and if you want to use Adobe Express, the only printer friendly formtat will have to be a PDF export. But again some printers will be content with a .png (however be minful that the resolution of a .png in Adobe xepress is lower than that of a PDF)

300 dpi, in Adobe Express is available only as a PDF.

in terms of template, you only need something that has the size (in pixels, or mm/inches) that your printer wants (irres[pective of the size it will eb printed). If you wanted to print at 1:1, I am not even sure Adobe Express will support that big a size.

JUst checking, and maybe it fits

try typing the sizes (in cm/inches) in the boxes and see if Adobe Express is Ok with them

Choose "custom size"

That's for the size... In term of design, you can still see a template you like, and change the size accordingly

In the template option

Click on customize template

Click on resize at the top

change dimensions and then modify the layout so it fits

[thorny spoke]

Thankyou @Sandrine for all the info, that was really helpful. Why is it that Adobe Express seems to have a max creation space of 121cm by 121cm ?

[unique stirrup]

I think that something that is likely to evolve in the future. To be honest, there are limitations with Adobe express (other than the size) that would make it a bit short to create professional printed pieces. Not professional in the sense of the quality, but certain printers will ask you to define bleed and margins (more the former than the latter tbh) and these aren't user-defined in Aexpress yet. I am not saying that they won't be there in the end, but so far the focus have been towards on-screen digital media creation as opposite to print, but in later months, print have had more options added. It's not up there yet with specialist software like Illustrator, which I would personally use if I had to deal with a printer that isn't a masss-market one (such as -say- Vistaprint, who are used to deal with run out the mill files)