Recent content by RachelKelly

In the world of AI generated raster art and people just using free editing software, I get junk like this all the time. Then after about 4 hours in Photoshop brushing over the shitty details and leveling out some of the weirdness, Here's what their decal will be: I don't think AI will...

I think something that might be effecting this is a lot of people don't want to trust a kid with machinery anymore either. Many teenagers doing odd jobs like this wouldn't have a general contractors license, business license, insurance etc. They would have to rely on the homeowner's insurance if...

I honestly love InDesign specifically for menu panels. Coffee shops, little snack shacks, and soda fountain drive ups. You can create a single page document in a scale proportion to your final size, set your columns, use tabs features to align to a ($) or (.) characters. Then you can add leader...

Ha! I feel you there! That's how the last employer was. Get the proof out and worry about the build and configure details later... Glad that's in the past.

Yea and all that cheep chinizium is literally trash collecting in the landfills two years later. Clothing doesn't last as long, Home appliances last the two year mark, Engine components on cars start going out right after the manufacture's warranty. I've noticed that LEDs that specify a 5-7 or...

Working in an older sign shop, I'm the only designer using Illustrator and Photoshop for my renders and layouts for proof specs. Then we use Gerber's Omega Composer for flat cut and routed layouts. The other designer swears by Corel Draw and it's photo manipulation program. I'm trying to get...

I like your idea! The local neon guy, this is his current plan. He's training an apprentice, but no one does neon like him. He names his price and everyone pay it.

In my town, there is certainly a lot crimes of convenience and necessity. People are stealing groceries, soaps, detergents and basic goods. The largest thing stolen is vehicles running in driveways while they are warming up in the morning, just hop in and drive off. It's a lovely time to have an...

Honestly I started freelance designing in my teens. I learned how to track my hours, invoice for my time, and collect payments. Start him there? I did work for my local YMCA laying out their marketing materials and big fall catalog of classes and services. Then bounced to a few small boutiques...

Happy New Year to you as well! Still have about 18 hours till the ball drop in my time zone. Wishing eveyone a productive start of the year, come next Monday of coarse. :cool:

To be fair not everyone has a perfect petite body to market on social media to drive sales of NSFW content. So not sure how much experience there is, or if it's dumb luck and thirsty dumb men with nothing but cash to loose. Real talk, at my previous sign shop employer, I made $5 less than I do...

Yea my office wasn't happy about Denco, They had some awesome sales guys and had all the printing supplies they needed for the Roland. The funny thing is Denco had bought a company called Tubelite 6 or 7 months before Denco bought them.

In the Denver area, I bet they go after Denver Sign Supply next. They already ate up Midwest and Denco in a 4 year time period... I'd be so sad if my friends at Sun Supply got bought out by Grimco. Welcome to the game of monopoly! Good luck on the game board.

I know, Those big scrolls of paper to turn the lights on an off for each part of the message! That was state of the art thinking in such a mechanical age. No computer controller, unlike our current electronic message units.

I have a friend that I think would have loved this job. He's always climbing things, man though the lack of anything safety restraint is astounding. But the sky scraper steel workers of the industrial revolution were very much the same dangerous profession.