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MOST IMPORTANT TIPS FOR FREELANCER GRAPHIC DESIGNER.

NEVER....NEVER USE YOUR NAME TO START FREELANCE WORK.

COME UP WITH SOME CATCHY NAME AND CALL IT FREELANCE.

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Can anyone give me advice for starting to do some freelance graphic design? I started teaching myself graphic design over 10 years ago at a young age for fun. Fast forward I worked at my community college for 3-4 years doing the graphic design for posters/handouts for various events and clubs. I've designed everything for a small record label I manage as well for the past 4 years as well, my logo, website, some of the CDs minus the cover art, ads, merch, ect. Long story short I have experience to do flyers/posters/merch and now that I don't have my job at the community college (because I'm transferring) I want to expand on graphic design on the side, design some things for local businesses, help musicians with logos/merch/art/ect even if they aren't releasing under my label and are from a totally separate genre. My experience is in Illustrator and Gimp (I can do photoshop, but I prefer gimp and illustrator instead honestly because gimp feels better for the image editing aspect, and illustrator just allows me to save things as svgs and pdfs not constraining me to one resolution) As far as how I learned everything, I don't have a degree in gd because I'm majoring in business management, I self taught myself everything pretty much, I've taken a few gd classes at my college, but breezed through them because I taught myself so much through my job and whatnot.

How do I get my feet wet in freelance stuff? My thought was ask a customer what they want, show them 2-4 different versions of what they asked for under the conditions that they can't use any of it until paid, and then charge them after they choose what they liked in auditioned to any final edits if they wanted any.

This is my most recent flyer for my label, it's a black/doom metal label so the idea was to be simple and to the point like most of the ads I see in my mags and at shows, nothing groovy like in the hiphop scene.

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What does /gd/ think of the package?

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Which distribution has the best logo?

No need to say the worst, we know it's gentoo

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My first designed diploma, what do you think?

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I need some system recommendation because Corel Draw lags too much on my laptop. Is it because I am doing my work on laptop?
Anyway I am planning on built my own system so I that I could perform my work without wasting any time. What kind of system would you suggest if one intends to use PS and Corel? Moreover it'd be great if I could save my money on expensive stuff.

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What's a good site to take online orders for graphic design stuff and get paid for? Looking to keep myself busy before school and earn some dosh

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Democrats are looking for a new slogan for their 2018 elections - What would you say is their parties message?

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Hey guys, I have an e-comm site where I sell book quote posters (pic related), and a decent amount of people have requested t-shirts. I honestly don't think the poster designs would look great on t-shirts, but I have Amazon Merch, so it's easy enough to throw them up there.

Anyway I am looking for input on what I should do with my poster images wrt the white border that surrounds the poster. I am sure some of you guys have worked with t-shirts, so you'll probably know what looks best.

Here are options I'm thinking about.

1) Leave the white border as is
2) Leave some of the white border (make it smaller)
3) Eliminate white border
4) Any of the above with slightly rounded edges. I feel like rounded edges might be nice. Somehow the right angles don't feel right on a t-shirt.

What makes this all a little more complicated is that the color of the t-shirt influences which option looks best. A very dark design on a black shirt might look better with some white border for separation.

I'm gonna post 6 options. I have my favorite, but I don't want to influence you guys. if you could take a second to look and tell me what you think is best, I would appreciate it.

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I made this poster several week ago (for a speech) using MS Publisher, and it's look nice, simple and useful. I want to go up with but I don't know where to start, and what Software to use. I make poster in Arabic language most of time.

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What do u think?

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Hi all. I used photoshop on my Mac but have recently gone to an ipad. I want a powerful photoeditor like photoshop but have found photoshop touch discountinued by adobe. They have seperate apps buts thats very inconvenient as you have to edit each component in a different app and then combine them. Is there an alternative thats all in one that you like?ive read about pixlmator but all the reviews say its not as powerful nor as many tools as photoshop touch. Anyway to dl photoshop touch that works? Im on ios 10.3

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Hello /gd/. I'm doing a homework for marketing and the teacher told us to make a logo for a fictional company. Mine is of home products, so I made this bird close to his nest resembling the home and shit. What font would look good in it?

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What's the best place to start learning calligraphy/hand lettering, /gd/? I would love to be able to actually draw out logos etc without having to use fonts all the time.

Any advice, websites, pdfs/books, youtube channels welcome.