improving customers artwork gripe

[Ripcord]

Yep, once I had someone give me an amateurish pencil drawing of a soccer ball with flames around it (as though that's never been done before...).I scanned it, vectorized it and cleaned up all the curves to make it look really cool. The customer asked couldn't I do it the way he submitted it? I took the original raw pencil sketch and printed it as a halftone and he loved it. Go figure...

Sometimes it's a kid's art, and needs to remain childishly amateurish. Of course, in your case we don't know.

Yeah, I've reproduced kid's drawings before and I don't try to change them. The one I was talking about was drawn by an adult with a pencil and looked remarkably amateurish especially in print, but the customer liked it...

[Chadwick]

AHahhahaha.   Sorry. I'm not laughing (at you),  but with you. you're laughing now right?

Beenair done nat.

I once had  a person over me at Disney that just wanted to put her fingers on to something in my design process. So, she had me move this element around in the design about 6 times before I kindly suggested she show me where she would like it. So, she opened the file, moved it around to a place where it was several times before... since it didn't fit anywhere else and said, there, I like that. What do you think of that Dan?  PERFECT ! I said with vigor. ;0 Thats IT!  Thanks for the help on that. It was a stumper. She sort of knew what I was doing at that point and she left me alone after that. lol.

I get that all the time from some regular clients.
( at dayjob, so I don't bother to tell them what I really think about their input )
If they don't feel they've had input, they're not happy.
These are the folks that tell everyone they 'designed' whatever you just created.

 

[Shawn (EIP)]

Customer came in today to pick up their order and handed me a 70.00 tip... now I feel bad for calling them an idiot (not to their face). I would just be a little embarassed to say I printed them.

[sweetts]

Customer cam in today to pick up their order and handed me a 70.00 tip... now I feel bad for calling them an idiot (not to their face). I would just be a little embarassed to say I printed them.

Nice

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[mk162]

I have a customer that constantly changes his logo.  It's awful too, it's a low res image that he shifts slightly side to side over the text, then he makes small changes to the text itself.  Nobody would know he's made the changes because his logo blows anyway.

I don't care because I bill him to rescan his new designs and we print them on the digital printer, so I don't care.  He just needs to focus on something else other than his logo.

[David005]

Man I love this thread!!  Memories