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I would take a trip to the book store and look through a book called The Artist Market. I has tons of information on the business market place for artists, which illustrators fall into. You probably want to make sure you understand Copyright as well. Make it clear to your client as whether or not you're releasing the copyright to your illustrations indefinitely or for a specific print run etc. I'm sure Gary Priester, he's more involved in the Xara Xtreme group, can speak to this as he's located in a area of the world known for artists and such. Speaking from experience, artists need to watch their backs sometimes.
Good Luck,
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Sally, you can't be too sure we are ALL real human beings, so be careful.
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I know I'm a real human being, although I have a few relatives I'm not sure of. :D
Drifter, your Avatar is a floating head . . . are you human? :D
I couldn't resist when I saw your last post.
I have a relative who's a well paid working artist. I can say patrons of the arts are pretty shifty sometimes. Getting terms spelled out in a contract is the only way to protect yourself.
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My avatar IS me - not just my head. My wife keeps me in a box. I am just a head. It's kind of hard to work the keyboard, but with Xara it is easy.
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Drifter, think out side the box.
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Hi
I own a Graphic Design and Print shop.
Use CorelDRAW for doing page layout, InDesign is a waste of money.
We use CorelDRAW X3 and Xara for all our Graphic Design. InDesign takes time to learn and does not publish to PDF very well, Images always seem to have white border lines around them.
My advice forget Adobe.
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Originally Posted by raccoon2
My advice forget Adobe.
As my avatar would tend to suggest... ;)
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InDesign is expensive and built to stay that way. Plus it is complicated where it doesn't really have to be. But it has a lot of things in it that is like Pagemaker. I find it hard to paste things exactly where I want, it offsets. I use it but don't like to.