Hey, what is up nation?
In this session we're gonna be going over three graphic
design mistakes that you should never make.
Okay, so there's a little bit of a backstory to this,
I've been hiring people to help me
building a team and like my video editor Josh, thank you so much, he's great,
there's Bhagya who's helping me with questions on the designer hacks website
and Val who is helping me with other tasks like making closed captions and
doing some research for videos. So those people are awesome and so I'm trying to
expand a little bit to help with YouTube thumbnails, so here is what was submitted
by a graphic designer that I hired on a trial basis and ended up releasing
and basically I paid him for this because he did the work, but I just want
to go over what you should not do as a graphic designer. I don't think this guy
had any formal training in graphic design, so it's...and it shows. And so I'm
gonna go over three things that you should avoid whenever you're doing
graphic design for yourself or for anyone else. But for this I'm gonna focus
on the client and what you should be focusing on when you're doing any sort
of presentation to a client. The first thing just to let you know
that in the template there's basically this Q&A with this little symbol you
might if you watch our channel, you're subscribed that probably looks familiar,
and then we have this little cursive font how-to, which is included in the
template, and then two different fonts here which are also included in the
template, but the first thing I want to point out is that the copy that was
given to him the name of the the the video was " How to create Gambel roofs in
Sketchup", or " How to create a gambrel roof in Sketchup", you can see that just off
the bat his copy wasn't copied. So this is how to gamble
roof in Sketchup, which is just incorrect grammatically. So this is the only text
that's on this image, so as the designer you need to make sure that that text
especially if there's such a small amount of text, that text is spot-on and
grammatically correct. And if for whatever reason you get a copy from
someone and it is grammatically incorrect, you should
compile a list of everything that is grammatically incorrect or spelled
incorrectly, and then talk to them about that and see if it was purposeful or not,
and if they would like you to change it or not. Be nice about it, and don't...I'm
gonna call it nickel and dime them about it, compile it all at once and send them
at once instead of sending them every time you find a mistake. It's just
helpful for them to just have everything at once. Okay, so there's that and make
sure that's right and the second thing he pulled this image from one of our
videos and it's just not sharp, and I don't know if you can tell but I'm gonna zoom
in here. You can see that it's really fuzzy, so I think what he did is he just
went and screen capped the video that we have and I'm not sure exactly how he
decided to do that, but it just has a lot of jagged edges and you could
reconstruct this if you wanted to, but if you get an image or you pull an image
from something and you realize that it's not sharp, you should contact the client
and say " Hey, this image that I'm getting isn't sharp, do you have any alternatives?
Can you provide me with an image? So, there's that and then the last thing,
this arrow here. I was able to find the exact arrow, he just pulled this off of
some website and then, which is, I don't know whether it's free to use or not, but
is potentially copyright infringement by just pulling someone's
stuff, but he didn't even bother to trace it. If it if he is allowed to use it you
can see all the jagged edges here, he just took the magic wand tool and erase
whatever color, and so you get this really jagged image. Ideally you would
use the pen tool for this, you know if you're gonna use this as inspiration but
if you want to be lazy about it, you can just come in and use the marquee tool,
and go all the way around. Now I think probably using the pen tool is easier,
but look how much of a difference that makes, this sharp crisp edge versus this
jagged one. So those are the three things I wanted to talk about, the background is
is what it is he pulled it from 1 2 3 RF I said hey this is what we use if you
find something you want to use - just put it in there with the watermark and then
we'll purchase it if the design is approved, so I'm not gonna really comment
too much on that. I probably wouldn't have picked this background, but yeah.
So hopefully this helped, I don't really know what to say about this, I felt like
I needed to make a video since I paid this guy 20 bucks for this, but yeah
so if you have any comments what do you think about this with is this the level
of quality you would expect for a twenty dollar image? Let me know in the comments
below, and as always, happy hacking! All right, designers! Just because this
episode of designer hacks is over, doesn't mean we're leaving you out in
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