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Posted by Vivid Boy on Dec-02-2003 22:46:

very quick question

how can i find out if a picture is copywritten? if i were to put the design on a businesscard and it is copywritten do i have to pay a fee or i cant do it period?

Posted by dEsidEL on Dec-02-2003 22:50:

Re: very quick question

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy
how can i find out if a picture is copywritten? if i were to put the design on a businesscard and it is copywritten do i have to pay a fee or i cant do it period?

man i didn't know that you could ask serious questions lol ..

in response however, everything is in a way copyrighten without the expressed consent of the author to use its work. where did u get this picture from? it'll depend on the source ..

Posted by malek on Dec-02-2003 22:51:

you have to assume that every picture is copywrighted unless it is clearly stated that its royalty free. You then have to find the copywright holder and ask for permission then give back credit ($ or his name on it etc.)

Posted by ryanparks on Dec-02-2003 22:52:

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Originally posted by ahlamalek
you have to assume that every picture is copywrighted unless it is clearly stated that its royalty free. You then have to find the copywright holder and ask for permission then give back credit ($ or his name on it etc.)

Well said Malek!

Posted by Vivid Boy on Dec-02-2003 22:57:

ok lets say this design was found on a webpage.. a very crappy design but useable...its also a drawing of an old sculpture located hrmm i dunno but on a building proly somewhere in europe

Posted by malek on Dec-03-2003 00:41:

post the pic already

Posted by Vivid Boy on Dec-03-2003 00:59:

Posted by ryanparks on Dec-03-2003 01:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Vivid Boy

is that sailor moon?

Posted by Vivid Boy on Dec-03-2003 01:30:

lol no actually its the god of the breeze...alright ill give u the low down...im starting a company its basically mechanical engineering.. we design air systems for residential housing...so i size ur furnace do all the calculations and design ur duct system...that in the picture which is actually pretty horrible with these color schemes of tranceaddict..is aquilo the god of the breeze... im calling my company aquilo air system designs

Posted by dEsidEL on Dec-03-2003 02:21:

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy
lol no actually its the god of the breeze...alright ill give u the low down...im starting a company its basically mechanical engineering.. we design air systems for residential housing...so i size ur furnace do all the calculations and design ur duct system...that in the picture which is actually pretty horrible with these color schemes of tranceaddict..is aquilo the god of the breeze... im calling my company aquilo air system designs

i wish you much success with that

Posted by malek on Dec-03-2003 03:26:

if that picture was drawn more than 50 years ago, then you're in buisness

Posted by ++ EGO ++ on Dec-03-2003 03:39:

i say pay me,

and I'll design you your business card

hehe, well, if I have time that is

Posted by Vivid Boy on Dec-03-2003 04:06:

i got a question abt that provitex...now do graphic designers charge like each deign they make u get charged for and then u pick the one u like..or do the design a few and i get charged for the one i pick?

Posted by ++ EGO ++ on Dec-03-2003 04:18:

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Originally posted by Vivid Boy
i got a question abt that provitex...now do graphic designers charge like each deign they make u get charged for and then u pick the one u like..or do the design a few and i get charged for the one i pick?

Well usually they spend the time with their customer to get to know 'EXACTLY' what they want as a final product, and how they would like it to look... And in cases of multiple designs, the overall style pretty much stays the same, only thing that would differ is the layout/font/colours... Nothing that would run too far from the original edit. But at the end, I believe you pay by either (/per hour of work and/or the final design picked by the customer)

but I'm not sure how it exactly works, since my only expriences in a graphics studio only included the above examples.

Posted by Jem_hadar on Dec-03-2003 06:05:

Posted by xls on Dec-03-2003 14:26:

If you're pulling it from a website and plan on using it as part of a company logo or something like that, you're going to need a higher resolution file or ideally a vector version of that image. Images for websites are only 72 dots per inch (dpi). For printed applications of graphics and photos, you need at least 150 dpi for it to look reasonable and not all pixelated and crappy. Your best option is a vector graphic because you can scale them to any size without a loss in quality. A vector file doesn't actually contain any "visual" data and isn't based on "pixels" per se. Vectors basically just contain information that tell a program where to draw a line or put a certain colour. Not sure if that makes any sense or not. Your best bet would be to contact the webmaster of the site and find out where the graphic came from. This way, you'd not only find out if it was copywritten, but if not, whether there's a high-resolution file or vector file available.

Posted by ++ EGO ++ on Dec-03-2003 23:03:

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Originally posted by xls
If you're pulling it from a website and plan on using it as part of a company logo or something like that, you're going to need a higher resolution file or ideally a vector version of that image. Images for websites are only 72 dots per inch (dpi). For printed applications of graphics and photos, you need at least 150 dpi for it to look reasonable and not all pixelated and crappy. Your best option is a vector graphic because you can scale them to any size without a loss in quality. A vector file doesn't actually contain any "visual" data and isn't based on "pixels" per se. Vectors basically just contain information that tell a program where to draw a line or put a certain colour. Not sure if that makes any sense or not. Your best bet would be to contact the webmaster of the site and find out where the graphic came from. This way, you'd not only find out if it was copywritten, but if not, whether there's a high-resolution file or vector file available.

yeahh pixel based graphics are tiny pixels making out the actual image 'tiny dots' and you have vector which uses mathematical equations drawing out your horizontal/vertical grid system to get your image. So stretching a pixel image would require you to distort it since you're also going to be stretching out all these tiny dots. Yet with vector you're only recalculating the equations which originally exist from the actual file. Illustrator is used best for vector bases graphics.