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I personally would let it slide since they are a regular client. It sounds as if it was a communication issue, so you may want to let them know somehow, "Hey we removed this item from the invoice due to a misunderstanding, but please note that our design fee is XXX for furture reference."
That way they are aware, and you look like the "good guy" to a good ...
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I've never dealt with this, but I can tell you what I would do:
If you already have a printer lined up, ask them for the print specifications. If you don't already have a printer lined up, find one and ask them for the print specifications. I'm sure most are accustomed to clients sending them artwork and they will lay it out for them on their template. ...
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I can't remember a single academic poster, from my 'scientific years', that was (at all) well designed. All I can think of are walls and walls full of text (usually in the same font), and me not reading even 10% of them. But to be honest, most teams wouldn't have the budget for (or the tradition of) hiring designers to do them.
Posters usually need to ...
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The answer is to create your logo artwork as vector rather than raster graphics. You can then use this artwork directly for print work, or export raster artwork at the size you need for web graphics.
While Photoshop has some vector support, if you have Creative Suite, Illustrator is the tool for the job. If you don't, then Inkscape (which is free) is worth ...
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What you are looking for are "flatbed cutter" or "flatbed cutter plotter".
The "flatbed" part is important.
Standard vinyl cutter do not need a flatbed since the vinyl sticks to a backing paper. This enables the cutter to roll and unroll the material(vinyl) without having to worry about loose pieces of material jamming the mechanisms. The backing paper ...
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To maintain brand identity a logo should generally have a set color scheme.
Generally...
Full color
Two Color (if appropriate)
One Color
Reversed
If you vary beyond this and start swapping colors for every projects you greatly degrade any brand identity unless the color variations are for a very specific reason.
Think of any major brand... does their ...
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e100's advice is spot on. A vector application such as Illustrator is the best tool for logo design, whether you start on paper and scan it in, or work directly within the program.
This isn't the whole story, however. Scalability doesn't just involve vectors; the detail in a logo must also be adjusted for the size of the finished artwork. Just as with ...
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Design isn't solely about 'being creative'. It's part of it, but a big part is about 'effective communication'.
What is the purpose of a resume? For the most part, it's to effectively communicate something.
A vast majority of the time, a resume should be a utilitarian tool. That doesn't mean it needs to be plain, nor that care doesn't have to be put into ...
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The problem you actually have isn't the one you think you have, but it's one that every designer faces often: the clients actually have no idea what they're looking for, so they have given you a list of vague concepts instead of a clear design brief.
Your job at this point is not to start trying to design something. It is to work with the client as long as ...
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In reality, since the implementation of multiple artboards in Illustrator the reason for using Indesign compared to Illustrator changed a bit. Pre CS4 the immediate reason was a single Indesign document rather than separate documents for each page with Illustrator.
Nowadays, there are still reasons one may prefer Indesign over Illustrator but, similar to ...
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Where a logo is concerned, or similar identity material, the client would have to be very naive, or very foolish, and the designer unethical, not to ensure that all rights in the finished design are transferred to the client upon acceptance of the finished work. As the designer, you never lose the right to display in your portfolio (including your website) a ...
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Any contract should clearly state what the client is purchasing rights to, what those rights are, and what the designer is retaining.
I never sell rights to sketches, preliminaries, notes, etc. They are always retained and the client is purchasing the final image/design/product only.
I will sell the rights to the final product if it's negotiated - this ...
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Yes, Photoshop could be used to design a magazine. But, so could MSPaint. This is absolutely a job suited for InDesign.
InDesign has much better tools for typesetting. If I didn't have InDesign available to me, I'd probably even use word processing software to lay everything out instead of going with Photoshop. It's definitely not the tool for the job.
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That depends on what was agreed upon.
But most designers sell their finished artwork with all the files neccesary to produce the design. For example: a logo should always be handed over in vector format, but you can flatten it and clean it up so your drafts, alternatives and fonts aren't in the file anymore. For a website it depends on how it is made. ...
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Mundanely enough, it's just an overlay or overlap. The reason for it is twofold, and also somewhat mundane: 1) because we can (Photoshop makes it easy), and 2) it's the fashion.
This is one of those cases where technology drives fashion. Before Photoshop, this kind of effect required some very exacting work with a razor-knife on a big transparency. You'd ...
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In addition to Adobe Illustrator which is clearly the gold-standard of commercial vector graphics tools, you should give some consideration to Inkscape. Inkscape is a vector drawing tool that would be an excellent chose for building scalable logo art. Inkscape is also free and runs on lots of platforms including both Windows and Mac.
The key attribute of ...
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In all my years of working with Photoshop, the only one that really stands out to me (aside from "print" and saving to other PPI-sensitive formats like PDF, obviously) is the type tool. But that's primarily because the type tool always defaults to points (even if you pull up the type dialog and type in pixels, it'll just convert it to points for you). Still, ...
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The only way I can think to do this is via a watermark.
The basics...
Open PDF in Acrobat. Choose Pages > Watermark > Add Watermark.
Select a jpg or PDF of your background and adjust scaling options as desired.
Then click the Appearance Options.. and uncheck the Show When Printing option.
In this image the PDF is a blank page with the word "Test" on ...
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Well this sort results can be achieved through Die Cutting.
How we do DieCutting
The cut is made using a special die shaped as the design. The die has sharp metal strips placed into a CNC cut block. The printed sheet is pressed onto the die using a high pressure roller which punches out the desired shape. This works alot like a "cookie cutter".
for more ...
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I think you'd be far better served by designing your CV in the word processor, InDesign, Illustrator, or pretty much anything that's not Photoshop. It's not really intended for this task.
Some suggestions, assuming the end result is going to be a PDF:
Adobe InDesign.
Adobe Illustrator.
Apple Pages.
Apple TextEdit (yep, it's actually really powerful and ...
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There's two parts to getting attention with a poster:
Attracting and focussing attention, which your design does pretty well - plenty of whitespace and clear clean stark colours and imagery grabbing attention and shunting it towards the centre. (it's maybe a bit flat, a very subtle texture or pattern might not hurt if used carefully - don't let it make the ...
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There are commercial inks that you would need a business licence and tax form to obtain. Since you may be using it for home use you would typically be getting a water based ink. The best option for you may be going to Hobby Lobby. They do have "do it yourself" home screening kits. Example here and white here From experience they are typically not ...
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If you haven't already, you might want to talk to a steel rule die company. I recently designed a small retail box and contracted a local steel rule die company to do the work. They ran a few different variations of my design on a flatbed plotter like leugim describes, then created a die once we had a design that would work.
A steel rule die will ...
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You need to use Photoshop. You should never blur the image it will just make it look bad.
Use the Offset filter Filter>other>offset to nudge the image so that the edge of the tiling is in the editable area. From there you need to paint/clone out the seams before using the offset filter again to return the image back to its original position.
Example of an ...
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My question:
Can I create a magazine exclusively using PhotoShop?
YES you can, BUT this is not the industry standard and it is highly frowned upon. See last paragraph.
My understanding:
It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high
resolution.
The standard is 300dpi for print, but again, that depends on the medium, ...
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that is some serious ink coverage there. As such, your printer is probably going to want you to go with a thicker paper stock to begin with. Coated would help as well.
Bottom line, though, is that this is a question for your printer. They will guide you through the process based on the ink coverage and paper style you want.
Do keep in mind that the paper ...
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The essence of a logo, the only reason to have one, is that it builds recognition by repetition. Any variation, then, reduces its effectiveness by delaying the point where it achieves "instant recognition."
Scott's example is a good one. The base FedEx logo, with its "subliminal" arrow, was in use for many years before they began to alter one element to ...
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You cannot "reformat" the PDF in a way that will make it appropriate.
You can do things to extract the image, and you can fuss with the numbers (pixel dimensions, dpi) so that the resulting file will conform to their specification. However, this will only play with the numbers and the quality will be the same as if they just used the PDF you submitted, ...
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I have not seen it mentioned and you also said community so my answer would lead more to a forum based choice instead of a CMS. CMS may be a better solution in regards to a preexisting WordPress site with the installation of BuddyPress/bbpress but I have not had any experience with attachments for it.
A free solution also in regards to a community would ...
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If you look at a resume and your attention is drawn to its layout or design, it is over-designed.
The most important function of a resume is to provide information. Use design and typography to increase the accesibiliy of that information, but beware not to cover the facts under too much visual candy. A strong resume is one that provides insights to the ...
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