Published on
April 26, 2008 in
thoughts.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, design, FreeHand, illustrator, Mac, opinions, Photoshop, rants, software, vector.
After an engaging exchange on Twitter with illustrators: Garth Bruner and Von “Vonster” Glitschka, who are constantly Twittering about their frustrations with being forced to switch from Freehand to Illustrator after Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, things reached the point where all involved thought that we need a way to band together and get some feature requests implemented in the next version of Adobe Illustrator.
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by George Coghill
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Published on
September 5, 2007 in
Illustration, art, cartooning and thoughts.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, business, cartoon, cartooning, drawing, graphic design, graphics, how-to, Illustration, Mac, money, opinions, Photoshop, protect, protection, rants, sketch, tip, vector, watermark.
It’s going to happen you you eventually — a client who doesn’t pay their bill. And unless the project was for a significant amount of money, the unfortunate truth is that many times it isn’t worth the cost of suing. The legal fees can very quickly outweigh the money you’ll get, and that’s the positive side!
Because of this, I make it a standard practice to ask for a 50% deposit for all work before starting a project. But this only covers you so far. I also do not transfer any high-resolution or vector art until the final balance is paid, but sometimes this doesn’t cover your butt — for example, the client may only want to use the art on their website, or may have no clue about proper printing resolutions and will go ahead an use the low-resolution JPEG preview images you’ve been sending them.
Continue reading 'Avoid Non-Paying Clients With Watermarks'
by George Coghill
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Published on
September 1, 2007 in
Illustration, art, cartooning, thoughts and updates.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, Illustration, illustrator.
Lately work has become quite busy, and updating the blog has become less frequent because of this. I try to, for the most part, make sure the entries are substantial and well-linked, and that takes time. I thought that it would be preferable to slow down rather than add fluff posts just to fill my daily blog quota. Of course the occasional art or artist post will be published when I find something cool.
The automatic del.ici.ous link posts I thought would be a good way to keep the information flowing without having full posts. I am curious how the readers out there feel about the del.ici.ous link posts — should they stay or go?
And while you are posting in the comments, please feel free to offer suggestions for future posts you’d like to see or topics you’d like to see covered. Lately it seems I have been overdosing on the Adobe Illustrator topic, and I would like to get more focused on cartooning and illustration in general. Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees…
I look forward to your thoughts.
by George Coghill
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Published on
August 15, 2007 in
reviews, software and thoughts.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, Creative Suite, CS3, drawing, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, opinions, OS X, Photoshop, review, software, tool, Wacom.
Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 arrived this morning, and was immediately installed on both my trusty G4 and the MacBook. Here are my very initial thoughts on the first run of the main software applications: Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
Continue reading 'Adobe Creative Suite 3: First Thoughts'
by George Coghill
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