making your own flyers...
making your own flyers... Posted on: 07.08.2012 by Ada Matzkin i have a gig in a few weeks and im responsible for most of the promotion myself on this one, im wondering if anyone can point me to a easy to use and FREE graphics program that has some decent fonts and stuff for flyer making. any suggestions? | |
| Random X 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by keithace
Closing this thread until further notice. I might decide to clean and re open, for now this has gone long enough. Keith is spot on about this one. It seems like a trend these last few months that serious help requests get turned into an ass kicking competition. Even the guys screaming hardest about how right they are, are the one legged men in said competition. Here's my one time plea: Please stop this. |
| Birgit Gondal 13.08.2012 | 64183_3130270289279_2146590756_n.jpg my favorite flier ever, i was on the bill, but i just loved how badass it looked. original copy made with gel pens btw. |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by adambroe
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| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by rotebass
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| Lela Umanskaya 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by keithace
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| Lela Umanskaya 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu
I'm here til thursday, make sure to tip your waitstaff people. |
| Random X 13.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by keithace
Closing this thread until further notice. I might decide to clean and re open, for now this has gone long enough. Keith is spot on about this one. It seems like a trend these last few months that serious help requests get turned into an ass kicking competition. Even the guys screaming hardest about how right they are, are the one legged men in said competition. Here's my one time plea: Please stop this. |
| Birgit Gondal 13.08.2012 | 64183_3130270289279_2146590756_n.jpg my favorite flier ever, i was on the bill, but i just loved how badass it looked. original copy made with gel pens btw. |
| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 | ahhh....ok. good luck with your stuff so. start charging less |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by adambroe
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| Shalon Jaranilla 12.08.2012 | 3.40 |
| Margie Pavell 12.08.2012 | it's seems like every thread has turned into this lately... |
| Kasi Marget 12.08.2012 | This whole thread is just.. I mean, between the lulzy flyers and the 1vs1, it's entertaining. /popcorn. |
| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 | no bother man.......if its any consolation you're gonna kill it with that set...... |
| Ada Matzkin 12.08.2012 | inspiring stuff adam thanks for sharing! im kinda bummed you leaked my practice routines for my big gig tho! |
| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by rotebass
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| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 | ok, if you want to get pissy because i said your stuff was bad then whatever you can pick a colour scheme and still fuck it up and you did that......you did a lot of that and if you want to talk about someone having their 'foot in their mouth' im surprised you're able to type with both feet rammed that far down, you were the one that started up and tried to tell someone else that they were amateur, which they were, but you have absolutely no right to look down on someone in this argument with your quality of work. i was full sure it was amateur work you were showing but you for some reason had a sense of ill-gotten superiority over it. your about a thirty day trial with photoshop and a week looking at a tutorial site away from each other..... you said this to someone else in a different thread about his logo 'I am, but frankly... you can't afford me. lol. Maybe if I can figure out how to squeeze more hours into the day I can get back into freelance work. Oh wait. Not living on this community might help that!" thanks you made me laugh with that |
| Lela Umanskaya 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by keithace
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| Lela Umanskaya 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu
I'm here til thursday, make sure to tip your waitstaff people. |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 | I don't take opinions to heart. I take critique. Opinions, assholes... you get the point. Give me sound design fundamentals to show where I've gone wrong, and I listen every time. Tell me that basic color theory (read up on analogous colors) makes for bad color schemes, and you'll have to remove your foot from your mouth in order for me to hear what you are saying. |
| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 | the shade of brown you used is horrible and bland, you can take my opinions to heart or not i was just trying to give you some advice before you shot down someone else for being shit. glass houses man |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 | I am always open to criticism on my work, but you've just said yellow and brown aren't a good color scheme. If you don't understand basic analogous color schemes... |
| Margie Pavell 12.08.2012 | i made it 43 seconds into that video...yuck... |
| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 | ill see what i got, i dont believe ive much to do with posters cause my stuffs a bit all over the place from college. heres my behance page tho if you want to see some stuff http://www.behance.net/adambroe heres some stuff ive got i did for a friends band tho and an album cover this is an installation poster i did for an electronic music festival here in ireland when they kind of wanted a poster but didnt want a poster heres a drive poster i made up messing around one day and heres two logos i made for myself a year or two ago dont get me wrong ive nothing against you making your own posters or flyers and i completely understand that there was no reason for you to pay anyone to make one for you when you couldnt afford it, your one didnt turn out that bad like ive seen far worse, its just that with how accessible designing software has become everyone believes they can do it which belittles what i do or what any other graphic designer does .....i believe the best way to describe it is how many people these days download traktor or serato (or any other dj software) and automatically believe that makes them a dj..... take this guy for example replace his s4 with photoshop and theres the point as to why designers get pissed off about this stuff. and yeah to anser your question no ive got horrible taste in women |
| Ada Matzkin 12.08.2012 | ok adam , lets see some of your work now please :P you cant give that kinda feedback and not leave an example. on another note im wondering if you guys adhere to the same "professional only" motto when looking for a date...... |
| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 | ah let me see if i can give some critique, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...mB_koji_v2.jpg i like the logo part in this the 'gg' is interesting but the serif typeface you've used doesn't really fit along with the design, the type face is very formal for this kind of design and doesnt really mix well, the lines you've put over the 'gg' are also very unnecessary and only make it look needlessly busy. youve left acres of space below all the type too which gives the feeling of it falling down which is never good you want someone reading a poster to get a settled feeling so they take the info in better. i realize you were trying to show off the red vector as the main image but to be honest ive always hated these things, they are nice to look at on their own but in posters they just look way too busy and distracting, which is what i believe is mainly wrong with this here its just too busy. the gramophone? part you put over it with the gradient overlay is way too bright too, it doesnt fit in with the rest of the design and kind of takes away from the aesthetic. less is more man, i hate that fucking phrase but its true. the koji logo is interesting but the blurred effect you went with also doesnt really fit with how the rest looks either, its not as crisp. the main koji logo should have been solid too rather then have been overlaid on. the two red lines coming down over it too make the main image look a bit off centre which always pisses me off when im designing something, i need the stuff to be centred. i like the colour scheme tho. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...isane_1980.jpg i like the tisane logo here but you really need everything to be perfect if your gonna try this kind of style, for example the horizontal lines on the 'T' arent the same size as the vertical ones on the bottom. its little things like that that makes stuff look a bit crappy, details need to be perfect. the '8' also is crossing over into the 9 and the 0. there shouldn't be those kind of mistakes. you have a good colour style again in this one and i like the crossing lines effect but youve cut off the hair of the two girls on top and i hate the lens flare too which your using to cover what ever was in between them. all in all i believe youve made it a bit too busy in the center of this image. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...en_1000507.jpg i believe youve kind of messed up the colour scheme in this one tho, the yellow is nice but it doesnt fit with the brown of the godzilla part too well. that dirty yellow of the smoke behind the type is a horrible colour too and the koji is way too blurred compared to the robots. the angled type is interesting but its way too close it just looks like a block and the seven is completely off from the line of type you were following http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0702...fc_148_614.jpg no offense but this is one of those beginner photo manipulation tutorials like this (http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ph...-manipulation/) something like glowing edges, gradient, overlay job done. you kind of need to back off with the effects, theres no real room to breathe in the image. the type is interesting but again you've done way too much with it ( i can make out the 1 and the 4 but im still not sure if thats supposed to be an 8 or not) everyone likes to do fire because its cool but this kind of image is just bog standard beginner stuff where someone discovered photoshop, played around with too many effects and thought the end result was cool http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...-game-2011.jpg same kind of thing here, its just basic pasting the figures down and messing with gradient blur i believe? and with the liquify tool for the 'ghosts behind. the figures are too bright to fit in with the image too its a lot of just basic stuff youve been doing, which isnt bad you're just making your images too needlessly busy. if you dont already spend half your life on the internet like i do id suggest trawling some sites like: http://www.fromupnorth.com/ (which is great for everything, especially photo manipulation, typography, graphic design etc) http://lookslikegooddesign.com/ http://abduzeedo.com/ http://www.behance.net/ or the millions of other design and art blogs, and taking some ideas from the images you find and incorporating it into your work. seeing all the best the internet has will give you a better aesthetic understanding too as well as new ideas for designs and stuff.... now thats just my opinion im not saying im perfect at anything either. |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by adambroe
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| Kevin Tarman 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by sobi
on the other hand however, forgive me if im picking up the wrong vibe over the argument but your stuff looks horribly amateurish too so i dont know why your giving out to him about it. |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 | Look into trying to fish around for some design students. Chances are they will do it for next to nothing... and probably less. Not only that, but you are bound to find some great talent. Sorry, but I get defensive about skimping on this stuff. I've been blessed to make a living as a full time DJ at one point of my life, and moved on from that to being a full time graphic artist/photo editor. While it hasn't taken away my ability to provide for my family, I can't make nearly the amount of money people in any of the previously mentioned fields used to make. Yes, you have to adapt and change with the times, and I have. That being said though, the ease of access to new tools means you no longer need to invest so much money. That in turn no longer weeds out people without an extreme passion for the craft. Because of that, a slew of people with only one foot in flood the market, they do their thing, and they disappear shortly after. That leaves the people who really love what they do, living in a position where the bar is lowered (along with pay). End of the day, I have always had a burning passion for music and art. It has gotten increasingly harder to make a good living at either. Even when you are good, and the creme rises to the top, the fact of the matter is that quality is always out numbered by mediocrity, and now those ratios make the quality harder to spot, and it lowers the public perception of good work. |
| Ada Matzkin 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by sobi
ive always been into art, so sure id like to learn as much as possible about design within reason, but yes i am trying to avoid paying a designer more than ill be paid as DJ on this particular gig. i honestly cant see why anyone would get so worked up about it. p.s. nice stuff sobi... for what its worth heres my actual flyer...bash away.. it was the best i could do for now |
| Darcel Scarbough 12.08.2012 | You need Adobe Photoshop lad pluss massive skills some one said use paint that was funny part LOL |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 | and here's a couple of non-music related pieces I did. |
| Darren Teboe 12.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu
You are mistaking my attitude for my critiquing your work and views. Again, if I misunderstood, and you have a sincere desire to learn, keep at it. Your skill level has a long way to go, and there's nothing wrong with that. No one is ever really good when they start at design. If you are just looking for a way to avoid paying a professional because you just don't want to pay for quality work, I stand by everything I previously said. Don't let your ego get buthurt because your amateur work looks... amateur. If you really want to see some of my stuff, fine. although I already know where this is gonna go, but ok... I'll take your bait. |
| Ardell Lafranchi 11.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by rotebass
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| Lela Umanskaya 11.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Dwonka27
I'm pretty sure I commented on that flyer in another thread. If not, It's not a bad looking flyer, at least it doesn't have the gay looking flamjng letters |
| Freida Leash 11.08.2012 | good job, one of the things to keep in mind when you want to print, is the resolution of the image, 300 pixels per inch equals about 150 dots per inch, so if you want your text crisp this is the minimum to work an image. |
| Ada Matzkin 11.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by sobi
even if u are great ud never get any business from me unless your attitude was as good as your artwork anyway.. btw thats an awesome flyer wonka |
| Ardell Lafranchi 11.08.2012 | how bout we just have anyone who hasnt had there name on a flyer whatsoever gets the ban hammer from this thread! Heres another one my friend made for me because i was using an example for something i made, Heres an official flyer so all u talkin smack about flyer making show me something better with your dj name and for those who arent talking smack i hope this gives u motivation!!!!!! |
| Darren Teboe 11.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu
unless your doing things like this to learn out of a sincere desire to get into the graphic arts, leave it to the professionals. You've got a LONG way to go. |
| Lela Umanskaya 10.08.2012 |
Originally Posted by Deejaesnafu
Maybe do the tutorials again, or find some tutorials that are actually going to turn out something... good? |
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