paulscottondesign
41 Years Experience
Marbella, ES
Male, 58
I have been in the graphic design industry since 1981 working in London, Los Angeles & Spain. My career started in the traditional way on a drawing board, using Rotoring Pens, Magic Markers, Pantone Pens & Letraset working as a Designer/Visualiser/Artworker. My design career has taken me through the music, toy, t-shirt, packaging & print industry. I am now a freelance graphic designer (British) based in Spain with many clients worldwide ...now using Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign on a Mac.
Unfortunately I am just a graphic designer that is purely creative ...I have no knowledge on technical issues with web design. You will need to ask the web designer that is designing your website. Sorry I cannot help
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UPDATE...I have now written a guide to becoming a graphic designer. It is available as Kindle or in print ...check it out here... AMAZON LINK . I am guessing the logo was very big, so the photoshop file must have been big so should not have a problem with quality. But if the logo is small and you have rasterized it you may have a pixellation problem when you enlarge it for the banner. It is always best to keep it as an original vector and change the colour in a vector software. Also make sure it is CMYK and not RGB. Hope this helps
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Well it is something I am in the process of creating now. It is a self project that I have been working on for years ...and not far off from completing. But it is not something I can reveal yet ...so unfortunately no one will know just yet ....lol
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UPDATE...I have now written a guide to becoming a graphic designer. It is available as Kindle or in print ...check it out here... AMAZON LINK . Hi Heidi, yeah sure I am happy to answer any questions your students have ...fire away!
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UPDATE...I have now written a guide to becoming a graphic designer. It is available as Kindle or in print ...check it out here... AMAZON LINK . Well as it is for a family friend I guess that are expecting special rates ...but always keep to the same rates as any client. Without knowing where you live and what your experience is it is hard to give you a rate that you should charge. If you are very good you should go in with a high price then negotiate if need be. I am in Europe and a few years ago I used to charge 400 euros for logo design and throw in the business card for free. But nowadays it is hard to charge that sort of money especially if it is a small company. I now charge 180 euros for logo design and 60 euros for business cards (no longer thrown in for free). As for websites that is something I do not design so do not know a price to charge. So you really need to base your price on your experience or capabilities but do not undersell yourself. Hope this helps.
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Hi Lisa, always been a Mac person ...never used Windows so cannot really answer that question
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UPDATE...I have now written a guide to becoming a graphic designer. It is available as Kindle or in print ...check it out here... AMAZON LINK . I love doing illustrations in Adobe Illustrator ...they are a challenge but I love seeing the end result. All design projects are great to do especially when your clients are so happy with what you have done for them. Newspapers can be a bit boring and some magazines that have 100's of pages ...but they pay the bills so need to be done.
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