Let's hear about your worst Photoshop day of all time! -YARN

thehermit

Subtitled Yarn or yawn

I can save you a read if you can't be bothered and want to skim, the point of the story is partly held in the image.

I shall start with a stinker, I am sure some can best it, I'm sure I may have had worse myself but memory fails me.

It all started four months ago....

I have a friend who's a chef and own his own gastropub, known him for over twenty years, when he bought his pub he had a complete re-branding from logo/type to interior décor, it cost £8000 just for the re-branding end. Fair enough, they did a good job and I certainly wasn't upset I had not been asked to do it, by my own admission I would not be qualified, I'm a retoucher not a branding expert/consultancy.

Forward wind two months....

The local council have received a complaint about the new signage on the outside of said pub, resulting in a fairly considerable change to all signage on the outside of the pub. Text needs changing and resizing, the logo need making at least 50% smaller and the text more prominent (larger), all images needed resizing to a specific set of dimensions. Council bark at landlord, end result; do in specific time or incur penalties.

Forward one month....

(phone call from chef friend)...thehermit (obviously he didn't actually say that

) ......friend proceeds to relay information and asks for advice. I tell him to contact his original designers and get them to adjust relevant details, I was swiftly informed this was not a viable financial option and that any communication for source files (copyright owned by my friend) went unanswered.

Last four weeks....

About ten seconds after hearing the above I could hear the tense pause before the "I have a favour to ask came" and then it came. I found myself inexplicably saying "sure". I had just signed myself up to recreate his logo exactly the same as before, nothing more nothing less. Sure I can recreate someone else's logo in vector (unlike them), I get sent relevant specs and get to work. Four days later present work, everyone is delighted, favour obligation filled right? Wrong.

Needless to say between a pedantic and quirky father of chef and Council bureaucrats I was asked to scale my initial contribution up somewhat. I was now being asked to put logo I had created on various size formats, some with additional texts such as Car Park etc...

I sent revisions back to chef and father, every time to glowing praise and thanks, so far I had spent about twelve hours involved in this and a few more on the periphery. To cut a long story just more bearable (refer to evidence 1a.), I have been on a daily rollercoaster of endless revisions each time meeting the specs of the daily requests, different sizes, different font for one aspect of the logotype as requested by the Council, size of logo the lists were endless; all met within a few hours of request. A week ago I had labelled my files to him -FINAL, I knew I had finally come to the end I had cracked it. Favour over, my friend knowing he should have employed me (see my earlier point) and how over the top I had gone on this considering none of it should have been necessary. No problem I was glad to help (choke back growl).

Today....

The Council have rejected the latest iterations and need something else, cue x,y,z needs changing. "Yeah...dad says he's going to see if he can get XXXXX design company to do it"

I include an image for illustration, but it won't tell of the full horror! 106 revisions, YES! 106 revisions. Glad to help mate Bawling

Total time about 16 hours.

GAH! Dead

Beat that for a sucky Photoshop Day. (the months before weren't so hot either!). This at the expense of personal projects. I'm now living in fear of the next call. lol.

Auieos · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject:

Life certainly severed you a lemon on this one.

Friends let you down sometimes like that especially when they don't know the work involved and assume its just a click here or there.

Council is just as dodgy here.

One of the councils here built a million dollar bridge to replace a perfectly good old bridge. The bridge is only used by five families who live on the other side of it, stated they did not need it and thought it was a waste of taxpayers money.
Anyway to build the new one they ripped off the top surface of the old bridge and attached the new metal structure to the old wooden frame of the previous bridge.
Now before the bridge had even opened or had been used by anyone the river has flooded, and ripped the new million dollar part of the brige off and swept it downstream and of course it left the old wooden part of the bridge completely untouched.
The top surface of the old bridge was removed so now both are useless.
Facepalm.

Figured this was rant thread so would add that in

thehermit · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject:

lol! Rant thread? How dare you!!! It was clearly titled bad Photoshop day!

In no way was I being self indulgent and petulant

however, I will allow your indulgent petulance.

So bad day rants allowed as well as Photoshop related incidents.

YourOnlySin · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:50 pm Post subject:

I get tired of bidding for freelance jobs for the same reason. Every employer wants you to edit one of their images as a test, then you might get one out of ten to fifteen jobs that you bid on. I don't know how many hours I've spent playing that game. Then there's always some gonzo out there that bids on the job for pennies and promises a one day turn around...yeah right. At least I have one job that provides steady, repeated work...just need a few more like that so I can stop wasting my time.

Dumpling-Boy · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject:

I hear that. I've been working freelance for a few years and have found just one method to be consistently profitable. All the 'extras' that I've been doing on the side have turned out to be a colossal waste of my time (i.e. working for $2 an hour by the end of the project) and always making adjustments, clients not satisfied, always wanting something different, etc etc. What you do for one customer is great, but for the next customer it isn't nearly what they want. Everything is customized, and for the most part, private clients just don't want to pay what it's worth; that's why corporate clients are necessary to survive in the freelance biz.

People will gladly pay $1500 for a tattoo that takes 2 days, but won't pay $300 for a family portrait. Why is this? Both last a lifetime.

I guess we should all become tattoo artists if we want to make any real money.

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