Poster help please

[MikeR]

Hey I was wondering if any body could help me please. I need to make a poster in photoshop that will be 36 by 24 inches. But I am doing the drawing my self on a 8 by 11 piece of paper. If I import into adobe and adjust the image size to fit the the 36 by 24 canvas will it still come out blurry when it gets printed at 36 by 24. If so how can I pull this off. Help please. Thanks guys for reading. You guys are always a help.

[Atreides]

You just have to scan it proportionally bigger. If you want to triple the size of your original drawing while maintaining a good resolution for that size (say 600dpi) you would scan it at 1800. You must have some big memory.

[madster]

When you scan your drawing in, make sure your resolution is at least 300-600 ppi.
THEN, go to Image>Duplicate, and duplicate it. Put the original scan away in a folder if you need an unaltered version.

With your Duplicate Poster, Divide it into 4 sections, and make EACH ONE a SEPARATE FILE. This will reduce System Resources as you work on it. You may want each "quarter" of the image to overlap slightly.

Make your adjustments, and then join 2 sections together at a time, and then join the two sections back into one, and you are ready for print.

Don't have anything else running on your system at the same time (IE, games, IRC, etc.), and SAVE OFTEN. Hit Ctrl+'S' everytime you change tools or colors.

~M