Before You Post a Contest Thread .... READ THIS!

[cascadingstylez]

Hello everyone.

I aim to share some information with you that may save you $50.00 or so, if you aiming on getting people to design a logo or layout for you, just stop for one second.

I see alot of contests on here asking for logos, and i must say alot of the ones that win can be done by following a few simple tutorials, thus you would have saved yourself a whole heap of money by spending an hour or so reading the tutorial.

Two major sites below are leaders in the world of so called 'Modern Logos' and these two sites will provide you with enough information to do whatever you want.

www.Pixel2Life.com
www.Tutroialized.com

and if you need fonts use:

www.dafont.com

The reason im posting this is because recently i entered a competition, and spent a good hour or so creating a vector image from a real life image, then creating the actual logo itself, and it took some time. Now i work for a comapany in the UK and i have more then enough knowledge and experience, but i lost to some guy who's logo was a blatent rip of from some tutorial site, ive seen it before.

I was furious, but obviously the contest holder felt my design wasnt what he was looking for, fair enough, but he didnt leave any feedback for me, and left me thinking otherwise.

Before you post a contest, please take the time to view these tutorial sites, and ask yourself: 'is it really worth spending money if i can spend a few hours on my PC and do it myself?'

Im ranting, but what im saying is true, if you need any advice or help .... for free, id be more then happy to help.

 

[Albino]

good post man, I tend to agree

 

[Dooodles]

I am sorry cascadingstylez but most of your post is not true.
All logos should be vector based for resize values for printing, signage etc not just for the internet so they must be made in a program that can do this, not just photoshop.
Every man and his dog now has Photoshop (legal and not legal versions) but not many people can use illustrator etc. You can not really get the same effects on a vector then a raster image.
Why would people want to go to a tutorial site and have a logo made that will be made hundreds of times over the internet then hire someone to do this for them?
I am sorry you have lost but people have diffrent opinions of what they want. At the end of the day just get over it and move on to a diffrent logo.

 

[cascadingstylez]

I am sorry cascadingstylez but most of your post is not true.
All logos should be vector based for resize values for printing, signage etc not just for the internet so they must be made in a program that can do this, not just photoshop.
Every man and his dog now has Photoshop (legal and not legal versions) but not many people can use illustrator etc. You can not really get the same effects on a vector then a raster image.
Why would people want to go to a tutorial site and have a logo made that will be made hundreds of times over the internet then hire someone to do this for them?
I am sorry you have lost but people have diffrent opinions of what they want. At the end of the day just get over it and move on to a diffrent logo.

You didnt read what i said.

If your paying some kid or someone who thinks he knows what hes doing to do your logos, he is using a tutorial site anyway, so im saying why pay him to use a tutorial site when you can do it yourself. Go and look at some contest submissions, then go over to those tutorial sites i listed, you will see exactly what i mean.

No-1 mentioned vector, im not saying people dont produce vector.

There is a reason why people hold contests at sitepoint, for this exact reason because they know they are going to get pro. artwork.