5 Common Poster Design Mistakes To Avoid

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Telford, Pennsylvania, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 31, 2012 -- If you are doing your own custom posters from scratch, you better learn from other’s mistakes. While there are tons of guides out there about designing posters, the best lesson is always from mistakes that you do or that others commit that they teach you to avoid. In this article, you will discover five common design mistakes that typically happen when amateurs print posters. Do not let your own movie posters, music posters, motivational posters and other fine art prints become failures. Study the mistakes below to help you get the right kind of professional design that you want.

1. Using plain backgrounds – In traditional poster art, the background is plain white, or plain colored. In modern art prints, this is not the most ideal type of background though. It would be a mistake to continue using that old plain background in your poster printing as well.

This is because in recent trends, dynamic gradient backgrounds and textures are getting more popular as they actually make a poster design more detailed and more “natural”. Those little color changes and even imperfections contribute to a more real and robust design that people readily accept. Try and think about applying the same to your poster printing.

2. Using web images – Web images are easy to find and easy to insert. That is why lots of amateurs make the mistake in using them in their posters. While those images may look good though, in printing, they are most likely to look fuzzy and blurred. Why? Because most net images are in low resolution for faster loading. So avoid using web images when possible. Use the original high resolution sources instead.

3. Mismatched colors – Amateur designers are also typically guilty of mismatching their colors. they simply thick that using neutral colors is enough for text, and of course leave the photographs and images with their natural colors. While in some cases this can work, this also makes the color theme of many posters bland and simply constructed, or at the worst situation, mismatched totally.

You will do well to at least do some color coordination by using those online color matching websites. Just look for it in your search engine, and you should easily coordinate the colors of your fonts, borders and accents with the main image and theme of your full color posters.

4. Mismatched fonts – It is also pretty common for some designers to use bad fonts or mismatched fonts against their theme. With tons of free fonts to choose from, this is not hard to imagine. The key though in solving this is to always just stick to one or two main styled fonts. For posters, stick with sans serif types of headlines and serif for body text. Keep them as understandable as possible and you should get a pretty decent design for your custom color posters.

5. Unrefined graphics – Some designers think that images can be inserted to posters easily without other post processing. While some expert photographers and designers can in fact create images like this, for your typical poster images, the chances are big that someone will forget to do some polishing and refining.

Of course, you yourself should NEVER FORGET this. Make sure you try and tweak the brightness and contrast a bit along with some extra vibrancy or intensity in colors. Adjust and polish them up until you get the most ideal graphics that you have in mind.

Now it is a simple matter of you remembering these common mistakes, and of course ultimately avoiding them. Make sure you remember all these items so that you have little chance of experiencing bad poster printing.

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