Overdoing your print posters is one of the single most terrible mistakes you can commit with poster printing. With all the cool and powerful features and effects that you can implement in poster printing, it can be tempting to use every single one of them to display your creativity. Do this too much however, and you risk overdoing your color poster designs to the detriment of the poster design itself. In this guide, I will teach you how to avoid such an occurrence. Here are the tips on how to avoid overdoing your print posters.

1. Keep to the standard templates – One of the easiest things you can do to avoid overdoing the designs for color posters is to simply keep to the standard poster printing templates that you are using. Use these poster templates effectively by using their dimensions, guidelines and setup so that you do not veer away too much with the standards of poster printing. This should help you make your poster printing faster while at the same time keeping your designs more standardized and acceptable for most of your markets for color posters.

2. Stick to a coherent color scheme – Another important thing to do is to stick to a coherent color scheme. It might be tempting to go all out and use all the colors of the rainbow, but this can lead to a design that is too loud and irritating for people’s eyes. That is why it is crucial that you use a coherent color scheme that only uses two to three colors along with various lightness and darkness values for each of those colors. This should help maintain a good quality of design that looks professional.

3. Use as few font styles as possible – It is also important that you use as few font styles as possible when printing posters. If you use too many font styles, this may result in an amateur and disorganized approach to poster printing and design. A good color poster will have only one or two font styles to keep things neat, understandable and coherent. This makes for better looking and more understandable poster prints out there.

4. Use only one primary image – In terms of image design and layout, it is always a good rule to use only one primary image or image group for your color poster design. This enhances the emphasis of attention to the main image and message without flooding the whole poster with too many ideas. That one primary image should be enough to get that message across and many people can already appreciate that simplicity and straightforwardness in design.

5. Keep the texture elements to a minimum – Finally, to make sure that you do not overdo your poster printing designs, you must remember to keep texture elements to a minimum. With this, I mean you should use simple texture backgrounds and fillers for your design elements. Color gradients and simple or fine textures are ideal for these kinds of situations since they are subtle but not overtly loud when integrated into a full color poster design.

Good. Those tips should help you a lot in moderating your poster printing just enough to make it look professional and functional without sacrificing creativity.