This was an excellent learning experience for me, both from a design standpoint and a nuts 'n bolts standpoint. I really enjoyed it. I hope this latest request of his is not going to lead to bad blood.
Wait a second. The taxpayers are paying to produce this guy’s political campaign flyers?
” make a political flyer for his current campaign.”
“a flyer which could be printed by teachers on their schools’ printers or copiers”
Around here, folks would probably go to jail if they got caught doing that. And if they are unionized teachers involved, better hope you all are liberal democrats, or you might end up going down with him.
If, on the other hand, it’s a non-profit private school and the management approved it, the only concern should be with the IRS.
You can have the image of your source file given to him in that format they want rendered unusable for changes.
You convert even the text to objects then ungroup. The school district union employee wanting to mass template your work could see it, high resolution print it from that file but would be screwed trying to change it and could not use it as a template.
I did that myself before.
Took seconds to change it. Not much extra work for you.
This was an excellent learning experience for me, both from a design standpoint and a nuts 'n bolts standpoint. I really enjoyed it. I hope this latest request of his is not going to lead to bad blood.
I've done freelance work as a photographer, technical writer, and programmer. Unfortunately you end up learning a lot of stuff the hard way. Some of my work has ended up in national advertisements and I never got a cent for it. I teach classes at the local college and one of them is centered around the business aspects of freelance photography. Most photographers can take great pictures, but end up frustrated because of the contracts and book keeping requirements.