mfatty500
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And then they tell you, oh it doesn't have to be exact, just something close....
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Raster and Vector Image Customer Rant
- Thread starter heyskull
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2B
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And then they tell you, oh it doesn't have to be exact, just something close....
What do you mean you are charging me to recreate and/or make edits to it?
I sent it from a "DESIGN" Program!!!
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Stacey K
I like making signs
Rant: I've received my annual FB message from my cousin looking for "2 can coozies", "2 beach towels with blue and white stripes with a full color boating logo with The Grateful Dead logo and his boat name" and some other crap she wants printed for Christmas. I just told her to check online. I sure as heck am not wasting my time making 2 coozies, 2 beach towels, 2 of this and 2 of that. Good grief. Don't hear from her all year until she needs these ridiculous presents. Rant over LOL
Applied Graphics WY
New Member
And charge more if the original graphic has a gradient they want to keep. It costs more to reproduce in vector form.
Stacey K
I like making signs
I hate gradients.
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
gradients can be tough to match. There are lots of variables such as direction, starting and ending point colors and some have other color stops at various points along the gradient with different color values
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
Here is an old post at Facebook that can help with gradient directions. I use this trick on nearly every file i receive that has gradients.
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
A customer bought a sublimated tent from me recently. He told me that he was going to have his graphic designer mockup the tent. I sent over the template so that he could mock it up. About 5 minutes later I got a call from the graphic designer who told me he was in over his head. He said he works in canva and does web design. He said he taught himself everything he knows and he realized he was way in over his head. I told him, yea, graphic design for printing is much different than a website. We have to have clean artwork because we are creating something tangible. websites are virtual graphics. The lightbulb suddenly went on for him. Needless to say, I did the artwork for the tent.
Applied Graphics WY
New Member
Me too! They look cool, but are a total pain to reproduce. I usually outsource those rather than trying to duplicate in shop.
Stacey K
I like making signs
You should have given him an award for actually being so smart! They don't usually admit such things, impressive!
DL Signs
Never go against the family
I used to too... Then I started using Affinity. It makes doing gradients and masking with blurs for those hard to hit ones so easy, and it's all live preview so you can adjust & tweak things as you go and see what's changing as you change it.
The Vector Doctor said:
Yeah, gradients can be a real can of worms. Normal linear or spherical gradients can be enough of a pain. I wish the Gradient Annotator in Adobe Illustrator worked more like the one in CorelDRAW. The one in CorelDRAW is a lot easier to control. You can snap either end of a linear gradient to other objects or guidelines. I have to fight with the one in Illustrator to get the results I want. In recent years Illustrator and CorelDRAW have added the capability to skew and distort gradients. So that's another variable that's tough to match.
Gradient meshes got added to Illustrator in the late 1990's. Freeform gradients were added just a few years ago. Both can be extremely difficult (and time consuming) to match accurately.
DL Signs said:
I'll agree it's very easy to edit gradients in Affinity Designer. The on-object "annotator" (Illustrator's term) is very easy to adjust, much more so than the one in Illustrator. Affinity Designer even supports conical gradients, while Illustrator does not.
But Affinity Designer doesn't have as many adjustment parameters on the gradient types it supports. For instance, you can change an elliptical gradient to a non-uniform aspect ratio, but you can't also skew the fill like you can in CorelDRAW or Illustrator. Affinity Designer doesn't support Gradient Meshes or Freeform Gradients. That can be a problem when importing certain kinds of Adobe Illustrator-generated artwork.
Stacey K
I like making signs
THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
well, the reason why he did was because he's not a graphic artist. He's somebody who learned how to design websites and thought he did a decent job at creating their logo.
Eforcer
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There is no point to educate clients these days. I also do t-shirts. I get canva files and get the client tells me "It looks great" On their cell phones. I tell them. Fortunately, I offer retouching services for a fee. But I already paid canva. SMH Education process has gone to &hit!
gnubler
Active Member
I'm dealing with this now for a school district, it's been going on for months. I finally received vector logos for all the schools and then they decided a couple needed to be updated...so then I get the usual low-res JPG/PNG and ten emails back & forth..."Is this one good enough? How about this one?". They have these logo files coming from all different directions, one of them was "designed" by a principal who has since resigned so they can't find original files. Whatta cluster...
gnubler
Active Member
Trudat. I gave up years ago. The internet destroyed our trade and craft.
CanuckSigns
Active Member
Make sure when you send them a proof you call it "front_sign_proof_easy_and_profitable_customer.png" when they ask tell them you're using the same hope and a prayer file naming system they are.