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Hi
I have been tasked to get a pvc banner printed for work. Its going to be used for half a day only
10 words, photo, logo. Then ping it off tue evening to a banner printing firm.
My problem is i know no one who can do the artwork.
Anyone want a little project for an hour or 2 work? No budget so it would be for beer vouchers only. I have an image in mind but zero computer skills to be able to produce a. Jpeg
Sorry I don't have enough expertise for what you are asking but I made you this to print out as an example banner to help you find someone that could do your idea justice. It didn't take 2 hours but send beer anyway. Hope it helps
The first thing is that if you’re doing a large banner, don’t do it in photoshop as it’s the wrong tool for the job. The print-resolution file will be the size of a continental shelf and the printers will hate you.
At that scale you want to do it in indesign or illustrator and send it to the printer as a PDF
Drop me a message and I’ll see what I can do
Tbh, thats more advanced than the remit....
Corporate non speak show your branch succeeding together. Now, i would have us doing the gun carrying thing at the royal tattoo, but transporying a cannon over obstacles is beyond the demo graphic of the staff. So a raw jpeg of a group of us standing around waving power tools outside, witj a tag line of out standing service.
Your bang on message, thats pretty much what my mind is seeing.
Drop the Victoria secret logo, wang in a screwfix one, add a, tag line
We're all good though. The crayon expert that is Binners is on it.
To be brutally honest,
You have no direct skills, no resources other than favours from here, and no budget for the project. Have you considered telling whoever tasked you with it to **** off?
I miss Jamie
Free work for Kingfisher group?
Profits are a bit down on selling tools but hey, that’s taking the P.
I miss Jamie
The Jamiemeister is very much missed in matters such as this.
To be brutally honest,
You have no direct skills, no resources other than favours from here, and no budget for the project. Have you considered telling whoever tasked you with it to **** off?
If anyone had asked me to come up with something like that, having learned that I’d previously worked on a Mac using Illustrator and Photoshop, I may have responded in a similar manner, only with less eloquence.
I have no real creative skills at all.
Wish I had asked to swap the goods to the value of £57 that I bought from B&Q earlier for a couple of beer vouchers.
Free work for Kingfisher group?
If it is, then no designer with any self respect or respect for the profession should be touching it.
Its not free.
I agreed to do it assuming my brother could knock something up. Except it turns out hes unable to do it.
This is coming out of my own wallet, so maybe you could drop the righteous indignation for once.
I appreciate it may not be the going rate, and its not fot Kingfisher, its a little in shop project. Its not like they are going to Print run n x 1000 and distribute around the UK.
Pay up then you tight wad
Comic Sans, 600pt, Print onto 30 sheets A4, laminate. Sellotape together.
Either it's for your employer (Screwfix?) or it isn't! If it's for fundraising for an employee doing a charity walk or something then say so as that's different obvs!I appreciate it may not be the going rate, and its not fot Kingfisher, its a little in shop project.
this is why people undervalue the work of designers & expect it takes no time/should be done for free! So not doing anyone including yourself any favours in the long run!!Drop me a message and I’ll see what I can do
this is why people undervalue the work of designers
How do you undervalue colouring in? Even a geography graduate can do it!
Ah but you don't pay them for the colouring in. You pay them for knowing what colours to use.
You pay them for knowing what colours to use.
Ah, that's fair. I've no idea what colour a wheel should be.
Screwfix do have their own in house design team, one of the guys that works for me, worked there. They have all the resources required for this task. In house.
Screwfix.
Victoria’s Secret.
They have all the resources required for this task. In house.
Happy ending....
On photoshop type programs, I have a question; My wife struggles to imagine what a room etc would look like painted one colour or another which makes DIY a pain in the arse (we're having discussions around kitchen worktop & tiles just now) 🙄
Is there a simple program a numpty like me could use to take a photo of said kitchen and superimpose a ral colour on the wall / worktop to change its colour, but adjusted for shadows etc so it was semi-realistic? Is this done on photoshop? (My current talents start and plateau rather abruptly about the level of MS Paint)
Stable Diffusion XL. 😉
I agreed to do it assuming my brother could knock something up. Except it turns out hes unable to do it.
Then you're daft.
This is coming out of my own wallet, so maybe you could drop the righteous indignation for once.
I double-checked. Still daft.
Why on god's green earth are you paying personally for a work expense at seemingly a corporate employer? Just say no if they aren't prepared to pay to hire the expertise. As Zilog said, if it's a favour for someone or a charity or something then that's a different scenario, but you literally said "I have been tasked to get a pvc banner printed for work." Paying for it yourself is utterly crackers.
Here you go...
Edit: prompt
a group of people holding oversized power tools outside a Screwfix store
This is the man for the job https://www.jamesfridman.com/
But seriously. If "YOU ARE" stuck and not Screwfix. I and others would probably help out 🙂
🙂
Ah but you don’t pay them for the colouring in. You pay them for knowing what colours to use.
And you pay someone else for keeping the colours inside the lines…
Can't have a low/no budget graphic design thread without David the designer.
The first thing is that if you’re doing a large banner, don’t do it in photoshop as it’s the wrong tool for the job. The print-resolution file will be the size of a continental shelf and the printers will hate you.
LOL, i did that in a past life (job), it was for some large posters, around 6ft tall iirc. Ended up using Gimp and a mahoosive TIFF format, it was probably not far off 1:1 😆
I enjoyed the experience tbh (and I wasn't paying for anything myself), really wanted to do it using Inkscape (assuming that would actually do it) but didnt have enough time to problem solve my way through thay learning process.
There are loads of kids on Fiverr that will literally do it for a fiver. Quality won’t be great but it will be in line with your budget and hopefully passable.