Multiple Choice?

Mar 24, 2011 23:59

Okay... it's rantage time. Need to blow off "under the radar," if you follow...

So I sends the client an email with the latest comps, and some notes describing some options on how to fit his design requests into his parent company's corporate branding.

Me: So you can do this... or this... or this other thing. [paraphrased]

He: That's fine. [ ( Read more... )

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10dimensions March 25 2011, 05:31:37 UTC
We sent a client a proof, and she complained that it was too big and the sides got cut off whenever she printed it out.

My husband didn't even bother to try and explain to her that she needed to set her printer to landscape orientation, he just rotated the proof and emailed it back to her.

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10dimensions March 25 2011, 05:32:49 UTC
Oh, I also meant to say that I have a client who will agree to a multiple choice question too. It drives me insane, because it just points out how he does not read 99% of the information I send him.

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samuraiartguy March 25 2011, 15:24:31 UTC
** Twitch **

Oh GODS.. the STUPID... it BURNS!!!

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elementalv March 25 2011, 08:45:35 UTC
I think at at point, my response to the client would be a chipper, "Oh! You'd like to go both ways? Bold choice. I'll get to work on the designs as soon as you approve the new pricing."

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samuraiartguy March 25 2011, 15:23:32 UTC
I recall one client I had to sent special RGB comps re-colored for his screen, and then DIFFERENT art to send to the print shop.

HE got charged EXTRA.

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oohasparklie March 25 2011, 17:55:59 UTC
It sounds like she needed to be educated, because she wasn't getting it.

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cat_o_wen March 25 2011, 13:17:52 UTC
I have tired of the endless edits to InDesign layouts, so I do screen caps of my working layout and send those for proofs instead of taking the time to export and convert to low res jpegs (because clients cannot fathom PDFs *groans* nor can they seem to ever open large documents of any type).

Don't even get me started on people who send me tiny 72DPI clipart wanting them used on their book cover. *growls*

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samuraiartguy March 25 2011, 15:18:25 UTC
"...people who send me tiny 72DPI clipart ..."

Oh I have just NO patience for this sort of thing anymore. I just curtly tell them, THIS WILL NOT WORK. .. and also to STOP COPPING IMAGES from your competitors' web sites to use in your printed work. What the frak are they THNKING?

FYI. InDesign can export JPEGs of any current page, in the same menu as Export to PDF, just specify JPEG as the file type. [ File: > Export... > Format: JPEG ] and you can set the resolution to 72, no cropping or resizing needed! And they're RGB and show up in the Windows Mail and outlook just fine.

Of course some of the same clients who can't grok PDFs will complain that the JPEG comp is fuzzy... Somethimes you just can't win. (I can sometimes get around that with 150 dpi images, but then the file size can blow past what AOL will tolerate... LOL )

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cat_o_wen March 25 2011, 15:38:18 UTC
I've gone the 150dpi route as well myself. You are right though...in the end, we simply cannot win. What do we know about design anyways? *laughs*

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oohasparklie March 25 2011, 17:53:11 UTC
I have experienced every single one of these scenarios.

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