50 Tips for Graphic Designers
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
- I've been a freelance graphic designer for a couple of years now, and in today's video I'd like to share 50 small, but effective tips that can help you if you're a graphic designer. Whether you're just starting out or if you're a seasoned designer, whether you work in-house or as a freelancer: This list of tips has something for every designer out there.
I think a lot of creatives can benefit from these tips, even if you aren't a graphic designer. Especially from Tip 50.
All of the video's and links I've mentioned in the video:
Photoshop Actions Tutorial (Tip 16):
• How to install & use P...
Blend Modes Tutorial (Tip 23):
• Advanced Textures in P...
My favorite Shortcuts (Tip 28)
• ⌨️ Photoshop & Illustr...
How to use Smart Objects (Tip 32):
• What are Smart Objects...
Time Management for Creative People (Tip 36):
• Time management for cr...
Why Mixed Media is awesome! (Tip 37):
• Why Mixed Media is awe...
Find out what other designers are earning:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
00:00 Intro
00:23 Tips 1 - 5
01:25 Tips 6 - 10
02:34 Tips 11 - 15
04:47 Tips 16 - 20
06:17 Tips 21 - 25
07:47 An Important Message
10:38 Tips 26 - 30
12:22 Tips 31 - 35
13:59 Tips 36 - 40
15:53 Tips 41 - 45
18:14 Tips 46 - 50
20:56 Outro
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Any tips I forgot to mention? Let us know your tips to your fellow designers!
@@sophiazcolley Hey Sophia! I actually already have a tutorial on how to create holographic stickers in Photoshop, as well as one on how to scan in stickers yourself and cleaning them up! And in fact I also have one on how to make custom plastic textures!
A lot of great info!
Hey Tom! Thank you for the essentials and specially for shearing the precious reference document! ^_____^
So good boss, your video's are really well done, very inspiring video for someone just starting out in the space.
I love this! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you for this work
Glad to hear the video was useful!
That last tip hits! thank you!
Hope you’ll keep remembering yourself! ❤️
thx!
Great videos and especially love the authenticity of your content. keep going!
Thank you! Will do!
tip for graphic designers: have rich parents
Tip for rich parents: give birth to graphic designers
Rich parents that will buy you every studioaaa asset
Helps a lot!
these are some of what i had in mind, thanks alot
Always good to have a reminder! If you have some tips I forgot, be sure to let the rest of us know!
Thank you so much for putting this up, it's really helpful!😶🌫
Glad to hear it was helpful!
thanks for this video - it's one of the best design videos i ever watched
Wow, thank you so much! That means a lot!
Definitely #1 is learning the shortcuts, it became second nature for me and now i have to alter other programs to match photoshop/illustrator's shortcuts hahaha,
Also for me taking a class in the basics of Adobe Illustrator, and an additional one about drawing in illustrator was essential for me. For illustrator the best thing i did was to learn the pen tool inside and out!! Do that and you'll be unstoppable.... and impress others by telling them you drew a realistic portrait with the pen tool in illustrator lol. My favorite piece of work is still my portrait I did of Bella Hadid entirely using the pen tool in illustrator back in 2017. Wish I could post a picture of it in the comments honestly!
Keep up the great videos! Love the tips, even when I feel I already know them it's great to be reminded of the fundamentals and to hear from other creatives to keep on track, and stay inspired!
Thanks for sharing, I had a similar process in my learning journey on Illustrator!
What a video bro! 👏
Didn't know you but i'm glad i found you! Thak you.
Glad to hear man! Hope you’ll enjoy the rest of the channel as much!
Super useful & insightful as always!
Thanks mate!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I shall support soon
Great tips! 😊
Thank you Karl!
Really helpful, this is one of the few good videos that RUclips recommended to me.
Great to hear! Hope you’ll enjoy the rest of my videos just as much. Glad to have you here!
Really insightful
Cheers David! If you have any tips to add, let me know!
These tips are so helpful, i put them on an excel sheet so I can look back on them. Thank you so much!!
That’s a great way of reminding them to yourself! Cheers!
have watched a lot of other tip videos but none of them was as comprehensive and thorough as yours! this was the first video i watched of yours and i already subscribed and looking forward to watching all the tutorials you linked.
thanks from a beginner designer!
Hey, thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad to hear the video was helpful, and I hope you enjoy the rest of my content as much! If you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to join our Discord and ask for help!
You’re a blessing 🎉❤
YOU'RE a blessing Hugo!
Great video!!! Great tips super helpful!
Tip i can give any new creative: Keep being creative and work towards your dream. If majority of your work isn't what your passion about or you got a gig your dont love, use it to gain the skills you need to keep working at the passion or dream gig. Also sometime its nice to have that day gig pay for the ability to follow more passion freelance jobs/gigs.
Just like Tom said with doing more assets than just a music cover, same goes for other graphic aspects. Client needs shirt graphic, offer a mock up, tech pack or a promo graphic of flyer for the final production piece or for pre orders.
Lets your design skills lead your other creative skills!
Great additions Mike, thanks!
great video man
Thank you very much!
Thank you
You're welcome! I hope you'll enjoy other videos from my channel as much!
thanks my man
Happy to help!
Great video! What were the books you were flicking through on tip #38, please?
Those are from Masala Noir, I recently uploaded a video about design books featuring them!
3:23 very useful, so much so that have you thought maybe that in order to make up for this gap you could raise your hourly pricing respectively? if you rule that out that's fine, but just don't tell people to ultimately cease from charging hourly.
That's possible, but you can't justify raising your prices to the same client every single week. You can however justify naming a price per project upfront everytime you start a new project. If you want to learn more about this topic I suggest checking out Chris Do's talk about it. Hourly based pricing doesn't make sense for creative freelancers, value based pricing does.
great vid
Thank you Zach!
Great video! where do I find the spread sheet you mentioned with the information on how much designers charge around the world??
It’s in the description!
I guess I missed it :p thank you!
DREADLABS!!! can you please make a video on frutiger aero, i know it’s not really close to *your* style, but if there’s anybody that could make a killer video on it it’d be you. please do a lot of research (i trust you would) before hand, like many know how to do the orbs, but also like abstract streaks used in 2000s desktop screensavers. also like option bubbles, like the ‘buttons’ on the wii sports menu (for ‘tennis’ ‘boxing’ etc.) i’m sure there’s much more. lmk if you’d be willing to give it a shot! i love your content!
Hey, thanks for the suggestion! I’d definitely be down to do a video on it as I grew up during that area! For now I highly suggest checking out Cody Vondell on RUclips, he might have a tutorial on it already!
good
Thanks!
Year started off slow, I made good money last year so I know it’s possible to scale big as a freelancer. best advice I took was creating relationships and collect your clients emails to periodically send offers to
Thanks for sharing! Never really done that so I might just give it a whirl myself
#8 is big. organic networking is the way to the top as a freelance designer. fiverr can help but it can't be the primary avenue for client outreach
Sometimes the most simple answer is just the most logical: Do good work and people will want to do business with you! :)
legend
You're the legend for being here!
more ppl need to listen to tip 22 for sure. ppl be texturing their stuff to dust
Agreed!
nice channel
Thanks! Feel free to check out any of my other videos!
@@Dreadlabs i will thank you
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If someone pays you via Paypal as family+friends- is there a time limit to how long aftet they can withdraw those funds?
Not sure- best to check that on the Paypal helpdesk!
at approx. 15:08 i need to know what book/zine/whatever that is!
Arcade Ads by Masala Noir. If you're interested I have a video on my channel showcasing their books!
@@Dreadlabs I super appreciate the reply! I meant to reply sooner. i never found your video (searched the title/author) but could find it on google so cheers.
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Will you send me a business card if I join your patreon?😂 This is a really good video with lots of helpful info. I’m not a designer by any means but you’ve convinced me to join.
Always welcome to support the channel! Where do you live?
@@Dreadlabs Georgia, US
17:00 thats actually wrong, its the opposite, when you get paid by "family and friends" there is no way they can refund the money unless you send back the money, while "for goods and service" they can refund the money claiming they didnt recive the design since there is no shipping code etc, so try to get paid family and friends if u suspect that they might ask for a refund, same way u should be careful when paying since if u pay friends and family there is no way u get refund the money
Are you sure? Because I’ve had this with a client (actually a scammer). They disputed a refund but only if I complied to it they were able to get a refund. This was back in 2021 however so it might be updated in the meantime
Plug
yall charging 400 for a poster
Sometimes more
I prefer Behance over Pinterest
Thanks for sharing! Could you tell why?
@@Dreadlabs I guess it’s just personal preference because on Pinterest i always feel like like I’m scrolling too much looking for stuff I’m actually interested in, and on Behance I’m literally overwhelmed with god tier inspo just on start page. And I’m always jealous of the jobs people get and post there. Do you have experiences with it aswell?
That sounds dope! I do love the in depth case studies on Behance, sometimes it’s a bit hard to find what I’m looking for exactly, which is where Pinterest just throws so much at me that there’s always something interesting to see for me. I think both have their charms and their weaknesses!
Keep doing what you doing my gee 💚😭🔥
Will do man hope you enjoy your stay on the channel!
thnaks bro,I reacently scammed by a client but after your video i feel really good thanks a lot brother..🥺❤🩹