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Atricle Dump - The Dangers of Freelancing and How to Protect Yourself from Thieves, Plagiarists and Time Wasters!
When people hear the word salesman the first thing they want to do is run and hide. It's because people know that a salesman is after their wallet. The problem with most salespeople or network marketers is they want to make a sale without even qualifying their prospect. Remember the old saying, "You can't put the cart before the horse". Here's a unique approach that I have been using for years and it really put's your prospect in a very different position. Tell your prospect right away that it's ok to tell you No, that you will not be offended. By giving your prospect a way out you are going to sav
2. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Free Rotate’. Rotate the text until it is at a slight angle.
3. Now select the ‘Rectangular Marque Tool’ and drag it around the text. Go to ‘Image’ and select ‘Crop’. This will reduce the pallet size and get rid of wasted space.
4. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Define Pattern’. Give it a name and click okay.
5. Open up the design you wish to protect and create a new layer over the top of it. Now go to click on ‘Edit’ and go to ‘Fill’. Select the pattern you have just created making sure the 'Opacity' is set to 10% and click okay. Your design is now watermarked and protected!
For a detailed step-by-step tutorial for how to apply the watermarking system in Adobe Photoshop, check out my free tutorial at http://www.freephotoshopzone.com/tutorials/watermarking.html
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What an Idea! It was in the 1980s, when I owned a manufacturers representative sales agency that I heard Patricia Fripp talking about this idea in one of her success seminars. I tried the idea with my sales team and it worked magnificently. For over a decade now, I too have been sharing this tool with audiences across North America and have received numerous notes of success from attendees.Let me first warn you—while this tool is simple to understand and quite easy to use, if executed incorrectly, can be crushing to your ego. But, what the hay—as a leader, it is your job to leave your ego at the d
I hear a lot in the forums about designers that are angry because they have just been scammed. No one expects to be a victim of theft until it actually happens to them. I personally rarely have this problem as I am careful about whom I design for and always protect my work. This does not mean to say that it will not happen to me and unfortunately does happen to freelancers all the time.
Some people feel they can use freelancers and the contest forums as a free service. They will pose as a client and give a project specification with a set price. Freelance designers will submit their work and may even get responses from this so called client. They will then steal the designs, usually using the old copy and paste method. Some more bold thieves will even request the files to be sent to them before they give payment. NEVER send your completed designs to a client before payment has been confirmed as it will leave you open to scams.
Just like thieves, time wasters do not pay for your services, but they will not steal them either. They will simply give up and ignore the work submitted. More often that not what happens is a client requests a logo or template and does not like the results they are getting from the freelancers submitting their entries. They then decide to go elsewhere without selecting a winner from their posting. The client has not looked at the rules of the forums carefully and although they do not mean to cause the freelancers any problems, by ignoring entries they are significantly wasting the designer’s time. This has resulted in a lot of people being banned from forums and labelled as time wasters.
The final issue of plagiarism tends to be more of a problem from new freelancers who are unaware of the laws regarding protected works. In order to copy a design in part or in full you need to have some expertise of how to do so. Remember, it is one thing to draw inspiration from other freelancer’s designs but another to steal and copy them. Sometimes you find a new designer who has only had a few posts and may be unsure of how the freelance business works. They may find an image from Google or even from another freelancer’s entry and feel they can apply it to their own designs. So they use the copy and paste function, slap it into Photoshop, add some text and call it their own. Fortunately for them, most of the time a more experienced freelancer will notice this and show them the errors of their ways and they never do it again. However, some people are aware that it is wrong and do it any way. These are the real bad guys who freelancers need to protect themselves from.
Surprisingly, a lot of freelancers are not aware of the basic method I am about to show you for how to quickly, easily and effectively protect your designs. This proven method can be applied to anything from a small logo to a large template. The method is called ‘watermarking’. It is basically faded text that is placed over a design to protect it. This text blocks the image resting under it and stops potential theft by making it almost impossible to clearly copy the design without the watermarked text showing up.
To watermark your image in Adobe Photoshop follow the simple steps below.
1. Create a new canvas with a transparent background. Select the text tool and create a text layer that you wish to show as a watermark. For example, ‘Sample’ or ‘This is a Protected Image’.
2. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Free Rotate’. Rotate the text until it is at a slight angle.
3. Now select the ‘Rectangular Marque Tool’ and drag it around the text. Go to ‘Image’ and select ‘Crop’. This will reduce the pallet size and get rid of wasted space.
4. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Define Pattern’. Give it a name and click okay.
5. Open up the design you wish to protect and create a new layer over the top of it. Now go to click on ‘Edit’ and go to ‘Fill’. Select the pattern you have just created making sure the 'Opacity' is set to 10% and click okay. Your design is now watermarked and protected!
For a detailed step-by-step tutorial for how to apply the watermarking system in Adobe Photoshop, check out my free tutorial at http://www.freephotoshopzone.com/tutorials/watermarking.html
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If you don’t have a credit policy, everyone will want to buy from you. This can result in unpaid and past due invoices on your books.A new book explains how you can avoid and prevent this from happening to you and your business. “Become the Squeaky Wheel”, is a guide to create, set up or update your credit policy.“There wasn’t an easy to follow guide you could use to create, maintain or update your existing credit policy while maintaining customer relations, so I created one.” Says Michelle Dunn, the author of the new book “Become the Squeaky Wheel”. “It’s proven very useful to business
Just like thieves, time wasters do not pay for your services, but they will not steal them either. They will simply give up and ignore the work submitted. More often that not what happens is a client requests a logo or template and does not like the results they are getting from the freelancers submitting their entries. They then decide to go elsewhere without selecting a winner from their posting. The client has not looked at the rules of the forums carefully and although they do not mean to cause the freelancers any problems, by ignoring entries they are significantly wasting the designer’s time. This has resulted in a lot of people being banned from forums and labelled as time wasters.
The final issue of plagiarism tends to be more of a problem from new freelancers who are unaware of the laws regarding protected works. In order to copy a design in part or in full you need to have some expertise of how to do so. Remember, it is one thing to draw inspiration from other freelancer’s designs but another to steal and copy them. Sometimes you find a new designer who has only had a few posts and may be unsure of how the freelance business works. They may find an image from Google or even from another freelancer’s entry and feel they can apply it to their own designs. So they use the copy and paste function, slap it into Photoshop, add some text and call it their own. Fortunately for them, most of the time a more experienced freelancer will notice this and show them the errors of their ways and they never do it again. However, some people are aware that it is wrong and do it any way. These are the real bad guys who freelancers need to protect themselves from.
Surprisingly, a lot of freelancers are not aware of the basic method I am about to show you for how to quickly, easily and effectively protect your designs. This proven method can be applied to anything from a small logo to a large template. The method is called ‘watermarking’. It is basically faded text that is placed over a design to protect it. This text blocks the image resting under it and stops potential theft by making it almost impossible to clearly copy the design without the watermarked text showing up.
To watermark your image in Adobe Photoshop follow the simple steps below.
1. Create a new canvas with a transparent background. Select the text tool and create a text layer that you wish to show as a watermark. For example, ‘Sample’ or ‘This is a Protected Image’.
2. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Free Rotate’. Rotate the text until it is at a slight angle.
3. Now select the ‘Rectangular Marque Tool’ and drag it around the text. Go to ‘Image’ and select ‘Crop’. This will reduce the pallet size and get rid of wasted space.
4. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Define Pattern’. Give it a name and click okay.
5. Open up the design you wish to protect and create a new layer over the top of it. Now go to click on ‘Edit’ and go to ‘Fill’. Select the pattern you have just created making sure the 'Opacity' is set to 10% and click okay. Your design is now watermarked and protected!
For a detailed step-by-step tutorial for how to apply the watermarking system in Adobe Photoshop, check out my free tutorial at http://www.freephotoshopzone.com/tutorials/watermarking.html
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What do we need when we look for a job? We need to be resourceful. Why did I say this? Let’s say you have the skills or the talent, you are lucky if you can support your skills financially and start a business. But what if you cannot support what you really enjoy doing? Then you need to find a job where you can enjoy the skills that you have. In looking for a job, consider first this question “Where can I find a Job?” This question may be simple but this is really where we want to start.Being resourceful is what we need in order to answer the question. You must know where to look for a job. You mu
The final issue of plagiarism tends to be more of a problem from new freelancers who are unaware of the laws regarding protected works. In order to copy a design in part or in full you need to have some expertise of how to do so. Remember, it is one thing to draw inspiration from other freelancer’s designs but another to steal and copy them. Sometimes you find a new designer who has only had a few posts and may be unsure of how the freelance business works. They may find an image from Google or even from another freelancer’s entry and feel they can apply it to their own designs. So they use the copy and paste function, slap it into Photoshop, add some text and call it their own. Fortunately for them, most of the time a more experienced freelancer will notice this and show them the errors of their ways and they never do it again. However, some people are aware that it is wrong and do it any way. These are the real bad guys who freelancers need to protect themselves from.
Surprisingly, a lot of freelancers are not aware of the basic method I am about to show you for how to quickly, easily and effectively protect your designs. This proven method can be applied to anything from a small logo to a large template. The method is called ‘watermarking’. It is basically faded text that is placed over a design to protect it. This text blocks the image resting under it and stops potential theft by making it almost impossible to clearly copy the design without the watermarked text showing up.
To watermark your image in Adobe Photoshop follow the simple steps below.
1. Create a new canvas with a transparent background. Select the text tool and create a text layer that you wish to show as a watermark. For example, ‘Sample’ or ‘This is a Protected Image’.
2. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Free Rotate’. Rotate the text until it is at a slight angle.
3. Now select the ‘Rectangular Marque Tool’ and drag it around the text. Go to ‘Image’ and select ‘Crop’. This will reduce the pallet size and get rid of wasted space.
4. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Define Pattern’. Give it a name and click okay.
5. Open up the design you wish to protect and create a new layer over the top of it. Now go to click on ‘Edit’ and go to ‘Fill’. Select the pattern you have just created making sure the 'Opacity' is set to 10% and click okay. Your design is now watermarked and protected!
For a detailed step-by-step tutorial for how to apply the watermarking system in Adobe Photoshop, check out my free tutorial at http://www.freephotoshopzone.com/tutorials/watermarking.html
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As an employee you need to be ready to face conflict situations in the workplace. There are many different people with different backgrounds and visions trying to achieve same goal as you. As a result the conflict takes place. There are numerous methods to avoid confrontation.The outlandish price and slow moving process of legal system is a direct result of the increased demand for the service. However, the sky rocketing prices and the lengthy process forced people to develop alternate solutions for dealing with issues of conflict. Alternate Dispute Resolutions (ADR) provides three widely acce
Surprisingly, a lot of freelancers are not aware of the basic method I am about to show you for how to quickly, easily and effectively protect your designs. This proven method can be applied to anything from a small logo to a large template. The method is called ‘watermarking’. It is basically faded text that is placed over a design to protect it. This text blocks the image resting under it and stops potential theft by making it almost impossible to clearly copy the design without the watermarked text showing up.
To watermark your image in Adobe Photoshop follow the simple steps below.
1. Create a new canvas with a transparent background. Select the text tool and create a text layer that you wish to show as a watermark. For example, ‘Sample’ or ‘This is a Protected Image’.
2. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Free Rotate’. Rotate the text until it is at a slight angle.
3. Now select the ‘Rectangular Marque Tool’ and drag it around the text. Go to ‘Image’ and select ‘Crop’. This will reduce the pallet size and get rid of wasted space.
4. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Define Pattern’. Give it a name and click okay.
5. Open up the design you wish to protect and create a new layer over the top of it. Now go to click on ‘Edit’ and go to ‘Fill’. Select the pattern you have just created making sure the 'Opacity' is set to 10% and click okay. Your design is now watermarked and protected!
For a detailed step-by-step tutorial for how to apply the watermarking system in Adobe Photoshop, check out my free tutorial at http://www.freephotoshopzone.com/tutorials/watermarking.html
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Don’t pay for more advertising just because you’re not getting sales. More ads or more traffic to your website is not always the answer to more sales. There are some simple steps that you can use to evaluate your situation before you make any definite decisions on why your online sales are sagging.1. Survey your last 10 customers who never bought from you again. Many seasoned business owners already know that it is wise to keep addresses of all their customers. They can send out future promotions on sales, new items available or other current news about their business. Yet, how many use their c
2. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Free Rotate’. Rotate the text until it is at a slight angle.
3. Now select the ‘Rectangular Marque Tool’ and drag it around the text. Go to ‘Image’ and select ‘Crop’. This will reduce the pallet size and get rid of wasted space.
4. Go to ‘Edit’ and select ‘Define Pattern’. Give it a name and click okay.
5. Open up the design you wish to protect and create a new layer over the top of it. Now go to click on ‘Edit’ and go to ‘Fill’. Select the pattern you have just created making sure the 'Opacity' is set to 10% and click okay. Your design is now watermarked and protected!
For a detailed step-by-step tutorial for how to apply the watermarking system in Adobe Photoshop, check out my free tutorial at http://www.freephotoshopzone.com/tutorials/watermarking.html
An alternative method is to use a software application that can watermark for you. The advantage of this being that it can digitally watermark your designs as well as visually which provides further hidden protection. Some of the best watermarking software available is Watermark Factory, Photowatermark Professional and 1-More Watermarker.
Remember, ALWAYS watermark your designs and be suspicious of anyone who requests un-watermarked entries.
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