so yeah follow along today guys and learn how to present your designs to a
client or a different designer in a professional manner and learn how your
document setup can actually seem quite amateurish compared to being
professional see the first tip today is that you don't want any clutter or any
kind of what kind of any noise around the outboards I know what it's like when
you're designing something and you're getting in the creative flow and you've
got you know design components all around the place even guides hanging
around like I've got above here but you really do not want to send this kind of
artwork to a client or even a fellow designer they do say a messy desk is a
messy mind it just looks unprofessional so before
you send anything to the client make sure that you get rid of everything
around the outboard if some of these tips seem obvious to you stay tuned in
because you want to go through every single point in today's video and see if
you've actually mastered these points on how to make your I'll go professional
when sending it to the client the second point is alignment when you have your
design do you want to make sure it's aligned perfectly on your artboard so
you can select the whole design and then press command or control G to group
everything together then come up to a line and make sure that you line
everything to the artboard then we can actually proceed to align things
horizontally and vertically which will ensure the artwork is perfectly aligned
but what you can also do is drugs from rulers from the guides that run
horizontally and vertically and again this just looks really neat and it helps
whoever is viewing your artwork
and if you want you can always hide the guides as well but the guides are there
just in case the designer or the client needs to refer back to them so the third
point that can make your designs unprofessional is that you forget to
expand or align your strokes so I've got a new design here and it looks pretty
neat but look what happens when I go to precise it now I've got my scale stroke
settings turned off and your client or a fellow designer might have that too so
what you need to do is when you finish the artwork you have to expand or
outline all of the strokes on your designs it's actually a good idea to
save two different versions of your work one outlined and one that's not this is
a professional way of working as a graphic designer
something that can cause you your client or a fellow designer some problems is
that design has too many anchor points there are many ways to remove redundant
or unwanted anchor points but let's take a closer look at my design here now that
I've outlined the stroke you can see there are two different shapes
overlapping each other so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come into the Pathfinder
window
then I'm going to go into the option settings you can actually choose to
remove redundant points here when you use the pathfinder options and i'm going
to unite the shape together and there you have it some points are already
eliminated for my design but we could still get further than that and we can
actually choose to clean up our design this happens to remove any stray points
and so forth and it's always a wise move to do this on your designs and then
finally one of my favorites we can come into the path and the simplify option
now this is where we can really remove lots of redundant and useless points
keep the preview box checked and also show original and you will see that the
red points are the ones are gonna be removed you want to find a nice balance
between keeping the shape of your design and not having too many anchor points
but be careful because straight lines can become curved if you actually remove
too many also of course you can use a direct selection tool and go over your
design and remove them manually but I kind of stress enough how important it
is not have too many points on your designs
so the fifth point on today's video on how to make your designs are much more
professional when sending the final artwork to a client is actually really
simple and basic but you'd be surprised about how many times designers forget
this so I've got quite a nice and tasty design on screen right now in a
monochrome kind of style and I can move around this object here some reason I
can't select the third design that's because I've locked it and forgotten is
actually locked so I simply need to unlock everything before I send the
final artwork to the client the sixth point in today's video is actually to
check your work for anomalies or mistakes now from a fire design can look
really good and really pristine but when you take a closer look things they
always pan out the way you want as you can see here what I thought was a
straight line is actually curved and granted us probably from the symbol if I
option but I still need to be back and fix that before I said the I work to the
client you really need to take a closer look at your design and find any
anomalies that are gonna cause problems later down the line and it should be as
perfect as possible so don't forget to take a close look at your design by
zooming in with ctrl or command +
and the final point today is one of the most important points for sending you
our wake to a client when the project's finished and it's based around funds so
you have your design it looks good but how do you know the client or a fellow
designer has that font on their computer essentially you don't and this can cause
quite a lot of problems so what some people would suggest is to outline the
phone but that's a destructive workflow so what I suggest you do is either you
package the fonts with the design files or or you outline the front and you save
two versions of the design one with the fonts not outlined and one with them
outline too so yeah I hope you enjoyed today's video and severn different
points that you need to keep in mind when sending the finished artwork to a
client or a fellow designer these seven points determine if your workflow is
professional or not and it reads the show on the final design let me know
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