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Originally Posted by GFX Wiz
The problem is you'e not hiring "designers" -- merely people who own Photoshop who need money.
Hire a professional designer and you won't have this problem. What is a professional designer?
- A professional designer is someone who is busy and not immediately available.
- A professional designer is someone who will let you know how long they are booked for before they can take on new work
- A professional designer is spoken highly of on the boards and has been -- FOR YEARS
- A professional designer has a recognizable name -- FOR YEARS
- A professional designer will never overbook himself just to get YOUR job. He (or she) knows that overbooking only leads to disappointed clients and a short career as a freelancer
- A PROFESSIONAL designer will NOT be the lowest price. They might be the HIGHEST price. You get what you pay for. Be cheap you might get nothing for your dollar.
These threads are as tiresome to read on GFY as any of AMP's hallucino-psycho rants. They are predictable and they are nice for professional designers to read so they can see who the cheap-asses are that we will never want as a client.
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Sorry man but let me say something...
"A professional designer is someone who is busy and not immediately available"
Absolute rubbish. A professional designer doesn't ALWAYS have work on. That's a ludicrous thing to say.
"A professional designer is spoken highly of on the boards and has been -- FOR YEARS"
Again, rubbish. The internet, and the 'boards' is FAR from being the only place that designers frequent, and clients talk about. For instance... I regard myself as a professional... I've been working professionally in art and design for 10 years now. Many of those years, I was working in videogames, where I worked on many high profile titles, such as SSX, FIFA, Madden, Need for Speed... Because I've not been around for more than a few months in the adult industry, on the forums, that suddently takes away my professionalism? Again... ludicrous.
Some of your points are valid... but some make it sound like YOU yourself, aren't a professional. I'm not questioning that... just saying you should think about what you've said. Because the points above are entirely untrue.