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I wouldn't let it offend you. Seems like they make a good case for the product they sell :)

The background is a Rustoleum texture paint, the name escapes me. The letters and border are Rustoleum Metallic Accents Champagne color, with a wash to "dirty it up"

This is my first try at hand routing a sign. I learned a lot with this experiment. The HDU used was a scrap of very low density, I don't think I'd ever use that again for anything other than practice. Sorry for the rough pics.

That's a great looking storefront! Love the sign, great work.

I don't always agree with design competitions, but in this case, I think it's a great way to get the community involved. Too bad the judges aren't a better representation of the community. Imagine the press for the winner. I'm excited to see what they do with it. I've spent many days in...

I actually prefer hand tracing whenever it's as simple as this one. This took a total of 8 minutes. I do think this is cleaner than an auto trace. I think you end up with less nodes doing it by hand.

There's a couple ways in Corel to do this. The cleanest is to just trace it all by hand. The other way that I use a lot is duplicate the image, convert it to a black and white bitmap adjusting the tolerance levels until the entire object you want outlined is black. Then auto trace that image.

Yep, Andy is a good guy! It's been so long since I've used him, I almost forgot about him. Thanks for the reminder.

I love the fact that your making this all by hand. The way Jill described is exactly how I would do it too.

Sorry you lost the job Marlene, but it sounds like you might be better off. I've worked for 2 companies that were willing to do all that for free too. They're no longer in business.

Your right, it's easy to say "no". But I'm not looking for the easy way, I do want to maintain a relationship with this guy.

I told him I could do half of it for $60 :) The thing with this project is it was something he already had designed, and it wasn't bad either. He just wanted me to put my touch on it. But like Rick said, if I show him a concept, I've already done the creative work, which is what I charge...

I don't even mess around with collecting half. I always get paid up front now unless it's one of about 5 customers that I've been working with for years and have a great relationship with. And I must say, I have some really great clients. But I've been burnt too and learned I don't want to...

Ok, I'll admit, customer relations isn't my strong suit. Just had a customer use this line on me after giving him a quote for a sell sheet layout. Keep in mind, I've already done a bit of work for him over the last couple months. He's been pretty good to deal with so far. "Can I see what...

Haha! I have the CD of that ebook sitting on my desk right now. I'd sell mine for $25. It is a pretty good source of info to get started.

Corel Draw seems geared well toward this kind of work. Here's a basic one. But now that I see ricks slick title block, I think I need to update mine :)

Thanks for the comments. I'm no Piccadilly Signs yet, but I'm working on it :)

Go for it! It'll make signs fun again. :)

Good question. If I had to guess, 5 or 6

Good luck with it! Screen printing for me was much more profitable than signs. Have fun with it and remember, the frustrating moments will pass if you stick with it.