Graphic design rates

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Jul 28, 2004
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I’m trying to establish rates for photoshop design work – based in US – midwest area. Design fliers, brochures, ads. Any pointers, advice much appreciated.
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tacitr
Jul 28, 2004
I’m trying to establish rates for photoshop design work – based in US – midwest area. Design fliers, brochures, ads. Any pointers, advice much appreciated.

You say "Photoshop," then you say "design work." Which do you mean? Photoshop is not a design tool; you don’t do fliers and brochures in Photoshop.

If you do all your design and layout in Photoshop, best not to charge more than $5-7 an hour. On the other hand, if you’re a graphic arts professional and you do image editing in Photoshop, layout in a page layout program such as QuarkXPress or Illustrator, and vector work such as logo design in Illustrator, you can expect to be compensated rather better.

The first place i suggest you look is the Graphic Arts Guild’s "Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines." You can order it online at

http://www.gag.org/pegs/index.php

It will answer these questions, and more.

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Stuart
Jul 28, 2004
Tacit wrote:

I’m trying to establish rates for photoshop design work – based in US – midwest area. Design fliers, brochures, ads. Any pointers, advice much appreciated.

You say "Photoshop," then you say "design work." Which do you mean? Photoshop is not a design tool; you don’t do fliers and brochures in Photoshop.
If you do all your design and layout in Photoshop, best not to charge more than $5-7 an hour. On the other hand, if you’re a graphic arts professional and you do image editing in Photoshop, layout in a page layout program such as QuarkXPress or Illustrator, and vector work such as logo design in Illustrator, you can expect to be compensated rather better.

The first place i suggest you look is the Graphic Arts Guild’s "Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines." You can order it online at
http://www.gag.org/pegs/index.php

It will answer these questions, and more.

I assume there must be a UK equivalent somewhere, just need to find it…

Stuart
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Hecate
Jul 29, 2004
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:00:24 +0100, Stuart wrote:

The first place i suggest you look is the Graphic Arts Guild’s "Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines." You can order it online at
http://www.gag.org/pegs/index.php

It will answer these questions, and more.

I assume there must be a UK equivalent somewhere, just need to find it…
If you find it let me know – I’d like to see some comparisons 🙂

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