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Casual Articles - 5 Ultimate Graphic Design Mistakes - Things That Graphic Designers Should Avoid At All Costs
Idea gathering is the first thing you need to do in the process of generating ideas. This step must be done extremely well to benefit the flow of ideas to come.He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. —Joseph JoubertAfter you have digested the information, you need to look at new combinations with the idea and have the ability to
3. Using obscure fonts and not embedding or outlining them for output.
We've all been guilty of this at some point and things are gener
You have the opportunity to join a non-profit organization as their bookkeeper and while you may have a great deal of experience working within the business for profit world there are some differences between the two types of organizations that are important to consider. Usually a nonprofit organization will be providing an important service to one or more parts of a co
With many young designers coming from a pre-dominantly web design background the transfer over from web design to traditional design for print can bring with it a multitude of design sins. Images supplied at 72dpi and crunched down to load fast on a website are going to reproduce very badly in print you can get away with small thumbnails but blowing things up to any appreciable size is going to be pushing your luck. There are a number of online sites offering free or very cheap quality hi resolution images which are a good source for suitable imagery.
2. Forgetting about or not allowing enough bleed.
A very common error is to send to print a document or flattened image that has no bleed at all. Generally speaking you should allow at least 3mm around every cut off edge. Failing to do so will give the printers no leeway and will either crop off the side of the page or give you a white border. It is always a good idea when supplying image files to save layered psd files then if things need extending or cropping you can do this on the background layer and hopefully cut down your work
3. Using obscure fonts and not embedding or outlining them for output.
We've all been guilty of this at some point and things are genera
Even though you and your directory rep are relatively satisfied with your current ad, you have the nagging feeling it could be improved. The problem is you’re (a) right, (b) don’t know enough about advertising to know what, (c) too cheap to hire a consultant to uncover the issue, or (d) all of the above. Most Yellow Page ads are missing an essential ingredient to really
2. Forgetting about or not allowing enough bleed.
A very common error is to send to print a document or flattened image that has no bleed at all. Generally speaking you should allow at least 3mm around every cut off edge. Failing to do so will give the printers no leeway and will either crop off the side of the page or give you a white border. It is always a good idea when supplying image files to save layered psd files then if things need extending or cropping you can do this on the background layer and hopefully cut down your work
3. Using obscure fonts and not embedding or outlining them for output.
We've all been guilty of this at some point and things are gener
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2. Forgetting about or not allowing enough bleed.
A very common error is to send to print a document or flattened image that has no bleed at all. Generally speaking you should allow at least 3mm around every cut off edge. Failing to do so will give the printers no leeway and will either crop off the side of the page or give you a white border. It is always a good idea when supplying image files to save layered psd files then if things need extending or cropping you can do this on the background layer and hopefully cut down your work
3. Using obscure fonts and not embedding or outlining them for output.
We've all been guilty of this at some point and things are gener
The business people in smart clothing sit around a small table and sip their coffee chatting about everything from the latest mergers to their son’s little league game. Even though these people are enjoying themselves, they aren’t here to waste away their time in idle chat. Like true entrepreneurs they are here to further their businesses agendas. With each sip of coffe
3. Using obscure fonts and not embedding or outlining them for output.
We've all been guilty of this at some point and things are gener
One of the best books you will ever discover to help you grow your business is Doug Hall's 'Jump Start Your Business Brain'. It is an underground classic that is absolutely wonderful advice - it is the book that helped me break free of mediocrity into a life I absolutely love.One of his biggest points in the book is how you can create a company that is *dramatic
3. Using obscure fonts and not embedding or outlining them for output.
We've all been guilty of this at some point and things are generally fine if you are going to be the only person accessing your artwork or documents. However if someone else needs to amend the files or use your vector logo on one of there publications. Unless you package up the used fonts, they are not going to be able to open the files correctly and some software programs may replace any unknown fonts with a default. This is a particular problem when you need to dig out stuff that was created several years previously and you no longer have your old fonts installed.
4. Supplying print ready artwork using spot colours or rgb
There are valid reasons for using spot colours in artwork, logos that need to reference particular pantone colours for example. In general design work however most print is sent through on 4 colour presses CMYK with occasional 5th colour for luminoius or metallic colour or for spot UV varnish. It is very common for lazy designers to just place rgb images into files and expect the vibrant colours seen on screen to reproduce in print.
5. Allowing design ill
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