tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47852849087889968902024-03-05T00:51:26.849-08:00Make Your First Impression a Lasting OneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280577982231105354noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785284908788996890.post-16121078135068970292018-11-19T09:57:00.001-08:002018-11-19T09:57:22.959-08:00Logo Designs<div style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;">
Effective logos are very important to establishing a brand’s identity. It is the point of reference your customers will use to determine who you are, and what you do.</div>
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Whatever you decide a logo has to have meaning and has to tell the story of your company in a visual way. It needs to be simple enough that it can be easily recognized, unique enough to stand out and versatile enough to be applied to different mediums, applications and situations. It has to be memorable and be relevant to your business. That said, the Starbucks's logo is all these but has nothing to do with coffee and yet is a successful, instantly recognizable logo due to it’s uniqueness. Originality counts!</div>
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Designing Logos</h3>
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A logo is the introduction to your brand and as with all first impressions, people will have a gut, emotional response. You have to think what you want that to be and how you can represent that visually. Who are you targeting, what are their likes and dislikes, what would they expect from a company like yours? What mood do you want to create, emotion to provoke, action to take, ideology to aspire to? What does that look like. Remember logo design is not about how well you can draw but how well you can communicate visually.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280577982231105354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785284908788996890.post-38435723369471320652018-11-19T09:45:00.002-08:002018-11-19T09:45:20.575-08:00Raster vs Vector<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262a2e; font-family: roboto, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Raster vs Vector Art</h2>
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Raster</h3>
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A raster file is an image composed of a finite set of dots called pixels. The word “pixel” comes from combining the “pix” in picture, and the “el” in element. So, essentially a pixel is a picture element.</div>
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Every pixel is square in shape and assigned a specific color. If you imagine a multi-colored chess board as being a close-up of a raster image, it can help paint a mental picture of what I’m describing.</div>
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Unlike a vector file, a raster file is dependent on the resolution of the file. The number of pixels that fit into a square inch determines the resolution. A 72 ppi (pixels per inch) file means that the image is only composed of 72 pixels in that square inch. A 300 ppi file means there are 300.</div>
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Smaller pixels means the image looks better on a computer monitor, phone or even your television.</div>
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What you need is to strike a balance based on your intention with the file.</div>
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For files, the pixels per inch is the resolution of the actual file. Dots per inch, or dpi, refers to the capabilities of the printer used. Dpi is the density of the inkjet dot placement. It aligns with the pixels per square inch rule too, so the higher the number the better print quality.</div>
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For resolution, especially for production, you always want a bigger number.</div>
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Low Resolution = Bad</h4>
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A low-resolution image is usually what someone “borrows” off of some website somewhere to use as the basis for their artwork.</div>
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An easy way to tell if the image will have reproduction challenges is to just look at the edges. If they are “stair-stepped” or look jagged, it’s going to be tough to get that to reproduce cleanly without a lot of work to that file. Just look at the image we chose for this article. See the choppy look at the background image has? That’s the indication of poor resolution.</div>
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When you ask for a higher resolution file and your customer just changes the resolution from 72 to 300 and sends it back to you, that isn’t solving the problem. When that file was transformed, the software program had to basically guess how it should look and filled in areas with pixels to make the change.</div>
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What’s added might not be a good solution.</div>
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While you can always make resolution lower, bumping things up to a higher resolution usually has unwanted consequences. Added in are artifacts, pixelation, and weird chunks of color fun.</div>
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Resampling doesn’t always work.</div>
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High Resolution = Good</h4>
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For raster images, always try to get at least a 300 dpi file at the actual size it will be reproduced.</div>
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For these file types, the larger the physical dimensions of the file get, the more megabytes the file may be in size. A 300 dpi file at 12″ x 12″ in size could be a 37MB+ file, and even larger if there are unflattened layers. That’s usually not something that can be emailed. I recommend either setting up an FTP portal on your website or getting a Dropbox account.</div>
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Raster image file size can be a good indicator for image quality.</div>
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So when a customer shoots you a raster image that is 112K is file size, you may be in trouble.</div>
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Raster images are best for photographs, complex illustrations, banner ads, web graphics, and content for social media. <span style="color: #ff5b59;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition: all 0.07s ease-in 0s;">Adobe Photoshop</span></span> is the recognized best industry platform for manipulating these photographic images, but other software programs can be used as well. In addition, many designers have switched to <span style="color: #ff5b59;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition: all 0.07s ease-in 0s;">Affinity Photo</span></span> as an alternative as it is lower in price than the <span style="color: #ff5b59;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition: all 0.07s ease-in 0s;">Adobe Creative Cloud.</span></span></div>
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Your best defense in getting great files is educating your customers on what you need in order do a good job. Have some predesigned educational material on your website, and saved as a one-pager that you can email a customer.</div>
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Educating your customer is always a good idea.</div>
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Answer to the Statement – “This is all I have”</h4>
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If you are in business for any length of time, you are going to run into this statement concerning a poor resolution art file.</div>
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How are you dealing with this challenge?</div>
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You need a policy that is standard for dealing with this challenge. Do you charge to fix this situation? Are you spending valuable art department time cleaning up that logo, or do you simply rely on a service that can do it for $10?</div>
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More often than not, this conversation is about a low-resolution logo file that is needed for the customer’s order.</div>
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Which brings us to…</div>
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Vector</h3>
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Vector images are based on math, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not pixels</em>. If you remember your high school geometry class, if you plot two points on a graph, you can connect them with a line. Plot four, connect all of them with a line, and you have a box shape. With that shape defined you can make the line or the box a color.</div>
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What’s great about this type of image is that it can be enlarged or reduced in size and never lose fidelity.</div>
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For this reason, vector images are always the best choice for logos and type.</div>
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Your art director isn’t crazy for constantly harping that logos coming in for orders have to be vector files. It’s a quality control thing. He’s just annoyed that for something so basic, he has to constantly repeat the raster vs vector art instructions on what’s needed.</div>
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I know you’ve heard this:</h2>
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Vector files are always best when doing something with logos or text. The majority of designers use <a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html?sdid=KKQML&mv=search&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!155829415149!e!!!!adobe%20illustrator&ef_id=WL7G1gAAADZGtzDT:20170726135611:s" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5b59; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.07s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Adobe Illustrator</a>, but there is a big contingent of <a href="http://www.coreldraw.com/en/pages/ppc/coreldraw/?sourceid=cdgs2017-xx-ppc_brkws&x-source=ppc_brkws&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9u7nh42n1QIVQ5d-Ch3c_QrqEAAYASAAEgIHX_D_BwE" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5b59; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.07s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CorelDraw</a> users too. Also, like with Photoshop, the vector version of <a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5b59; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.07s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Affinity Designer</a> is seeing some growth. It’s really a personal preference at this point, but with Adobe shifting everything to their cloud format many designers don’t want to be saddled with that expense forever.</div>
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When a design is produced using the screen printing method, actual screens are used in the process! Essentially, this screen is cut to make a stencil for the design. Ink is then spread over the screen, passing through to the object underneath only in the areas you want it to be. Only one color per screen can be used - so depending on the number of colors in the design, you’ll need multiple screens to produce the final item.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">1. Plan Out Your Color Scheme</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">When planning out your color palette in advance- it is helpful if you create mock-up designs to test colors- this will help with any issues when it comes to printing time.</span><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">2. Use Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">If you have access to the Adobe Suite, or Corel Draw then you should be using them to create your designs. This is important for using spot color and saving as vectors. </span>Always be sure to save your designs in vector format! Unlike other formats (JPEG, GIF, or BMP), vector images can be resized without sacrificing quality. This helps especially if you’re planning to print the design across different materials such as business cards, postcards, t-shirts etc.</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">When using other products, like Photoshop, you’re creating a raster-based application. This means you are pretty much stuck with the original dimensions. This can greatly affect the quality of the printing process and final product.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b>A pro tip: </b>Always create your design at a larger scale and higher resolution than you need as you can scale art down without any issues, but not the other way around.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">If your artwork is hand-drawn and needs to be digitized, make sure that you have scanned your design at the correct resolution! Generally, if the drawing is actual size, then scanning at 300 dpi will produce the best end result. </span></div>
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Raster vs Vector Art</h2>
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A raster file is an image composed of a finite set of dots called pixels. The word “pixel” comes from combining the “pix” in picture, and the “el” in element. So, essentially a pixel is a picture element.</div>
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Every pixel is square in shape and assigned a specific color. If you imagine a multi-colored chess board as being a close-up of a raster image, it can help paint a mental picture of what I’m describing.</div>
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Unlike a vector file, a raster file is dependent on the resolution of the file. The number of pixels that fit into a square inch determines the resolution. A 72 ppi (pixels per inch) file means that the image is only composed of 72 pixels in that square inch. A 300 ppi file means there are 300.</div>
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Smaller pixels means the image looks better on a computer monitor, phone or even your television.</div>
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What you need is to strike a balance based on your intention with the file.</div>
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For files, the pixels per inch is the resolution of the actual file. Dots per inch, or dpi, refers to the capabilities of the printer used. Dpi is the density of the inkjet dot placement. It aligns with the pixels per square inch rule too, so the higher the number the better print quality.</div>
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For resolution, especially for production, you always want a bigger number.</div>
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Low Resolution = Bad</h4>
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A low-resolution image is usually what someone “borrows” off of some website somewhere to use as the basis for their artwork.</div>
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An easy way to tell if the image will have reproduction challenges is to just look at the edges. If they are “stair-stepped” or look jagged, it’s going to be tough to get that to reproduce cleanly without a lot of work to that file. Just look at the image we chose for this article. See the choppy look at the background image has? That’s the indication of poor resolution.</div>
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When you ask for a higher resolution file and your customer just changes the resolution from 72 to 300 and sends it back to you, that isn’t solving the problem. When that file was transformed, the software program had to basically guess how it should look and filled in areas with pixels to make the change.</div>
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What’s added might not be a good solution.</div>
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While you can always make resolution lower, bumping things up to a higher resolution usually has unwanted consequences. Added in are artifacts, pixelation, and weird chunks of color fun.</div>
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Resampling doesn’t always work.</div>
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For raster images, always try to get at least a 300 dpi file at the actual size it will be reproduced.</div>
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For these file types, the larger the physical dimensions of the file get, the more megabytes the file may be in size. A 300 dpi file at 12″ x 12″ in size could be a 37MB+ file, and even larger if there are unflattened layers. That’s usually not something that can be emailed. I recommend either setting up an FTP portal on your website or getting a Dropbox account.</div>
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Raster image file size can be a good indicator for image quality.</div>
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So when a customer shoots you a raster image that is 112K is file size, you may be in trouble.</div>
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Raster images are best for photographs, complex illustrations, banner ads, web graphics, and content for social media. <span style="color: #ff5b59;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; transition: all 0.07s ease-in;">Adobe Photoshop</span></span> is the recognized best industry platform for manipulating these photographic images, but other software programs can be used as well. In addition, many designers have switched to <span style="color: #ff5b59;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; transition: all 0.07s ease-in;">Affinity Photo</span></span> as an alternative as it is lower in price than the <span style="color: #ff5b59;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; transition: all 0.07s ease-in;">Adobe Creative Cloud.</span></span></div>
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Your best defense in getting great files is educating your customers on what you need in order do a good job. Have some predesigned educational material on your website, and saved as a one-pager that you can email a customer.</div>
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Educating your customer is always a good idea.</div>
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Answer to the Statement – “This is all I have”</h4>
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If you are in business for any length of time, you are going to run into this statement concerning a poor resolution art file.</div>
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How are you dealing with this challenge?</div>
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You need a policy that is standard for dealing with this challenge. Do you charge to fix this situation? Are you spending valuable art department time cleaning up that logo, or do you simply rely on a service that can do it for $10?</div>
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More often than not, this conversation is about a low-resolution logo file that is needed for the customer’s order.</div>
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Which brings us to…</div>
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Vector</h3>
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Vector images are based on math, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not pixels</em>. If you remember your high school geometry class, if you plot two points on a graph, you can connect them with a line. Plot four, connect all of them with a line, and you have a box shape. With that shape defined you can make the line or the box a color.</div>
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What’s great about this type of image is that it can be enlarged or reduced in size and never lose fidelity.</div>
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For this reason, vector images are always the best choice for logos and type.</div>
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Your art director isn’t crazy for constantly harping that logos coming in for orders have to be vector files. It’s a quality control thing. He’s just annoyed that for something so basic, he has to constantly repeat the raster vs vector art instructions on what’s needed.</div>
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I know you’ve heard this:</h2>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #585f66; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Logos need to be vector files. <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is so there aren’t any resolution challenges.</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #585f66; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Pantone colors labeled. <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Specifying these in the logo art file means nobody has to guess or ask questions later.</em></li>
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Vector files are always best when doing something with logos or text. The majority of designers use <a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html?sdid=KKQML&mv=search&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!155829415149!e!!!!adobe%20illustrator&ef_id=WL7G1gAAADZGtzDT:20170726135611:s" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5b59; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.07s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Adobe Illustrator</a>, but there is a big contingent of <a href="http://www.coreldraw.com/en/pages/ppc/coreldraw/?sourceid=cdgs2017-xx-ppc_brkws&x-source=ppc_brkws&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9u7nh42n1QIVQ5d-Ch3c_QrqEAAYASAAEgIHX_D_BwE" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5b59; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.07s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CorelDraw</a> users too. Also, like with Photoshop, the vector version of <a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5b59; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.07s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Affinity Designer</a> is seeing some growth. It’s really a personal preference at this point, but with Adobe shifting everything to their cloud format many designers don’t want to be saddled with that expense forever.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280577982231105354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785284908788996890.post-72748798456720352802017-01-12T14:09:00.000-08:002017-01-12T14:13:26.771-08:00SCREEN PRINTING VS VINYL HOW TO CHOOSE<div class="MsoNormal">
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Both will give you a quality, a long lasting product, and in most cases either option will work just as well as
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With the vinyl heat transfer process, a heat press machine is used to
cut out simple designs and letters in pieces of colored vinyl. the heat press is then
used to transfer each vinyl color of the design onto the object being pressed through a process that uses a combination of heat and pressure.This is usually done for smaller runs and only a few colors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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actual screens are used in the process. The design is burned onto the screens, ink is then spread over the screen, passing through
to the garment underneath only in the areas you want it to be. Only one color
per screen, so depending on the number of colors in the design,
you may need multiple screens to produce the final output on the item. Screen printing is usually for higher quantity runs and multiple color output.<br />
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If you use the same size graphic on different sized shirts, the graphic stays the same size across all shirt sizes. We can scale the image down to make a smaller graphic for the smaller shirts but another screen will need to be made and that is added expense. So if at all possible make your graphic size work for all your garment sizes. Most clients find a way to do this</div>
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Can I Print 1 Shirt or Do I Need to Screen Print in Bulk?</h2>
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Screen printing is designed to be printed in bulk. The printing part of the process is actually the fastest part. All the costs and time are in the setup. This is why the cost per shirt goes down the more you print per design.</div>
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A lot of work goes into getting a shirt ready to print and requires almost every employee at the company. Artwork has to be mocked up and films have to be created. After this, the screens department converts the film into screens. Next, the printers setup the presses to run the shirts. It takes a good bit of time to setup a press to run shirts.</div>
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Because of this we cannot print 1 shirt at a time as it would easily cost $150+ to do. The smallest order of shirts we will do is 25 of the same design. </div>
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Screen Printing Basics</h2>
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When a design is produced using the screen printing method, actual screens are used in the process! Essentially, this screen is cut to make a stencil for the design. Ink is then spread over the screen, passing through to the object underneath only in the areas you want it to be. Only one color per screen can be used - so depending on the number of colors in the design, you’ll need multiple screens to produce the final item.</div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #48256b; font-family: titillium_webregular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Screen printing</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #48256b; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "titillium_webregular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the best way to put an amazing custom screen printed shirt design on a piece of clothing, and here at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #48256b; font-family: titillium_webregular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">IDG screen printing in Palm Desert</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #48256b; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "titillium_webregular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we handle the entire<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #48256b; font-family: titillium_webregular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">custom screen printed t shirt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #48256b; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "titillium_webregular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">design process right on site! First we do the design work, making sure your graphics look great and will print perfectly on our quality screen printing products. If you only have an idea of what you want, our design team will personally guide you through creating a great design for your screen printed products. Next we'll help you pick the right product to put it on, be it a custom t-shirt, hoodie, tote bag, or any of thousands of possibilities.</span></div>
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We service Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Indio, La Quinta, Indian Wells & the Coachella Valley</h5>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280577982231105354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785284908788996890.post-43379672868065855792016-01-26T09:05:00.000-08:002016-01-26T09:09:24.817-08:00Screen Printing Services<br />
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</span><strong><span style="background: white; color: #604a7b; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">IDG
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75;">The most important element of screen printing is
great design, and that's what sets us apart. Most screen printers are just
that: printers. We are a full-service design studio and can lead you
through every step, from developing a design you have in mind to holding the
finished shirt in your hand. We don't sub out; we screen
print in-house and customize to your needs. Whether it's 25 shirts for
your employees or 200 shirts for a an event, we've got you covered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #351c75;">We are located in Palm Desert and serve </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #604a7b; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Serving</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Palm
Desert</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Palm
Springs</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">La
Quinta</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Indio</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Rancho
Mirage</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Indian
Wells</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,</span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Cathedral City</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Bermuda
Dunes</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, and all of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span itemprop="serviceArea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Coachella
Valley</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280577982231105354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785284908788996890.post-77284037866273189242014-07-29T13:26:00.001-07:002014-07-29T13:26:10.684-07:00Impression DesignLocated in Palm Desert Impression Design is your one stop shop for all of your <span itemprop="serviceType">marketing</span>
needs! We pride ourselves on providing excellent service with a very
personal touch. We understand the challenges of marketing your company
effectively; let us help you understand what it takes to keep your
business successful in today's market. Whether it's small steps or a
complete overhaul, we put maximum effort into every project.<br />
From logos and brochures, to complete websites - our design studio
will create a custom company image and then streamline all printing,
screening and embroidering. Impression Design will also manage all your
internet questions and hosting needs. Anything you can imagine putting
your logo on we can make.<br />
We specialize in <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">website design</span></strong>, <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">graphic design</span></strong> (including logo and identity design), <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">embroidery</span></strong>, <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">screen printing</span></strong>, <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">promotional items</span></strong>, <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">SEO</span></strong>, <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">mass email and online marketing</span></strong>, <strong><span itemprop="serviceType">large format printing and banners</span></strong>.<br />
Serving <span itemprop="serviceArea">Palm Desert</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">Palm Springs</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">La Quinta</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">Indio</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">Rancho Mirage</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">Indian Wells</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">Cathedral City</span>, <span itemprop="serviceArea">Bermuda Dunes</span>, and all of the <span itemprop="serviceArea">Coachella Valley</span>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13280577982231105354noreply@blogger.com