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Tony Mince
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From: Flint MI USA
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Elaborate Graphics - 9/7/2002 20:56:08
Hey Everybody,
I had a meeting today with our new Marketing Director today about our companies new website I' m developing. He' s envisioning lots of elaborate graphics and Im not talking about anything that can be done with PhotoShop. He showed me sites that he likes and wants ours to be patterned after. The site part is pretty straight forward but the graphics OMG! They were definitely designed by a graphic artist with lots of training.
My question is do any of you do your own elaborate graphics? Is there any place you can download them?
The really funny part (well not really) is that the sites he pointed out were mostly very large companies with a large web team and he wants to create a site equal to those by myself and in less than a month! Our new site has to be ready for upload by Oct 1 to correspond with a large marketing campaign.
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abbeyvet
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From: Kilkenny Ireland
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RE: Elaborate Graphics - 9/8/2002 6:14:22
I doubt there is much out there that PhotoShop cannot do. If you post a few of the links I am certain that people here could tell you how they were created.
Quite probably the graphics you were looking at were made in Photoshop or could have been. The thing is that some people can get a lot more from Photoshop (or any graphics program) than others. That' s not a critisism, some people are just very talented with graphics and could make something brilliant with even rudimentary tools, with photoshop they can do pretty much anything. So while it may be pretty easy to say " Oh that was done using this tool or that effect" it is not so easy to say how the concept was arrived at originally or to learn to execute the designs as brilliantly as a pro.
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very large companies with a large web team
Large companie and large teams do not necessarily add up to great sites, but it sure does help to have a bunch of specialists at hand. It will almost certainly mean they have a graphics specialist, and this is where the problem arises. Most of us are generalists, hopefully competent at most aspects of web design, particular good at a few aspects, weak at a few aspects and probably, unless we are lucky, not at the level of real brilliance at any.
The trick is to make a team, emulate the big boys. If you really feel you cannot produce the graphic style that is required, find someone who can and subcontract that part of the work. This need not be very expensive. You may find someone here whose work indicates they can do what you need, or you could try somewhere like http://www.elance.com and find a graphics person there. There are people at Elance who produce work of incredibly high quality at incredibly reasonable prices.
Mr Marketing Manager may need to have some version of reality presented to him. If there is no real budget for the creation of this sort of thing then it cannot be done. Period. I have no doubt whatever that you could learn to do it. But in a month (actually, I don' t mean to panic you but it is less than 4 weeks!) you have to have a site - there just is no time for learning how to be a graphic designer.
If you do post a few links to the sort of thing you are talking about it may turn out that it is relatively simple and you can do it yourself. But I know from past experience that deciding that something is really better passed to someone else, and then doing that, can take an incedible weight off your mind and make a task that seemed daunting suddenly straightforward.
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