My take on that, is that you should play around with Photoshop, for fun. And at the price they are offering it to us , it’s a great deal just to have fun.  But to go ahead and make your own pamphlets etc. I don’t think it’s wise.

My feel is you should work ON your business and not IN your business.

 

That being said, we can’t polish marble 24 hrs a day so I’m guessing you come home and we don’t always feel like working on “our next move” and we want to create a pamphlet

 

You always shoot as big as you can with low cost digital cards now , it’s tragic Mike what happened to you

 

Better yet show in RAW, you need a little more playing for this but here you really have the maximum flexibility.  I make huge 6 foot images of my work , so for me it’s been important.

 

The last thing, buy an external hard drive. At the prices today you should have TWO external hard drives, the first one 500 gig or more (about 100$ each) you use for all your data and pics storage, this way you will keep your comp lean and mean. Keep on your comp only what client files you maybe working on

 

The second is the automatic backup.

I have lost my pics 3x

 

We are talking from the early 90’s all my debut jobs

 

In 2000, no I was not victim of that, whatever it was called in 2000, ykk or something, and I lost half of my files when my new secretary a few years ago played clean up and deleted what she thought was unimportant .

 

Mike , I would ask Debbie to help you with the pamphlets, she is a wiz with the net I’m certain she can take care of it or find you someone.  If that’s not possible, I will find you someone here from my BNI group.

 

With today’s technology, my connection could be in Thailand and you would still get your pamphlet done the next day.

 

Anthony  

 

 

  I have been trying to get my brochures complete and just hit ANOTHER snag which was due to the Photoshoping of some images. I told my graphic designer there would be a problem and he did not agree, unfortunately the print shop did…  The problem is that If you take an image and increase the DPI you are still working with a finite amount of pixels. Increasing the dpi size X 4 will at the same time decrease the pixel quality X 4. So it becomes moot. Therefore it is VERY important to shoot the photos in High Res if you ever want to use these for print.  I never knew this and always shot in a small file size for computer storage and web, now I am screwed as all my best photos, almost all of my HUGE file are not acceptable for print. Trying to make these brochures has been a real headache…

 

 

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