in today's video I've got a checklist for you to remember before sending any
artwork to your clients now this could save you a lot of time a lot of
headaches and it's also gonna put a smile on your clients face ensuring they
come back to you for more work in the future as a graphic designer
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website today now the first tip on today's checklist is to protect the
artwork in the contract prior to starting the project now the ideal
scenario is that you have a contract up front and if this is the case then
you're gonna be ready to accept their final payment upon sending them your
completed designs if you are sending the finalized designs this is the time to
also build them for the final payment prior to sending the final artwork do
not send the final artwork without being paid in full under any circumstances
now spell checking is a really simple step to take before you send any
finished artwork to our clients now I'm a huge offender of having typos in my
videos here on YouTube because I often have little time making them with my
graphic designs I always try and spell check everything that I actually work on
the new updates of illustrator for 20/20 has a new integrated spellcheck system
that red lines any typos that appear on your work and this is something that's
very handy to have access to there is nothing worse than having a quality
design completed you know something you're really super happy and proud of
and after you said and design to their client you actually spot a typo staring
you right in the face now the next tip is to avoid a print
anomalies on your text when you send your our work file to your printer you
are banking them having the same funds available in their system now this is by
no means a guarantee PDF files often have an embed font option available to
you so if you see if you work as a PDF the fonts you've used in your artwork
are going to be embedded along with it this means it isn't a matter whether or
not the printer has that fonts on their system and I should be no errors or
anomalies when printing your text the other alternatives is to outline the
text which is actually a destructive workflow method we can also package the
font files to however it is technically illegal to share font files in many
cases so do make sure you are in the clear before you send any font files to
a client then a fourth check point today is before you send the cloner designs
have one last really good read through the brief make sure that you have
covered every single step of points on the brief and make sure the design
adheres and relates back to the brief itself and this is crucial because the
brief illustrates exactly what the client has in mind and what they
envision as a designer you're just simply there to make this happen so do
read the brief one last time now another point in today's checklist is to name
your files it is just good design etiquette and it's going to make the
clients life easier as well as choice if you correctly title your files with a
date and the name this will leave your client with a suitable file and this is
also going to show your professionalism and it's going to be one reason for them
to come back to you in the future
alignment is another important aspect of graphic design and actually alignment is
a graphic design principle in it of itself so make sure that your design
assets are aligned according to the nature of your artwork so if you're
working on editorial designs make sure your text is aligned to the left
and that each column of text is aligned to headings and imagery liquor design
should have a good harmony of alignment in the strap line aching a tag line and
the main logo type and just simply consider alignment on all of your design
artwork because it is really really important the seventh tip in today's
checklist of things to do before sending a choir in their work is to test prints
if you have access to a printer then I highly suggest that you test print
artwork the design that you see on screen may in fact look very very
different after being printed or there may even be some anomalies or issues
that only realize after the artwork had been printed it is a lot better for you
to find us out now at this stage rather than your clients realizing errors post
ordering 500 copies of the design to be printed yes some printing agencies do
test print everything beforehand but there's also many that don't so you
cannot rely on the printing company to test print so there is your checklist to
consider before sending any clients their artwork remember if you wanna hop
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