Graphics Design Can Make Money For You

Graphics design such as Logo Design, Banner Design, Website Templates PSDs, Stock Photos etc. are in great demand among webmasters. So this can be your opportunity to start your business as a graphics designer. I am going to discuss a few basics on this type of jobs or career as a graphics designer in this article.

Everyday there are thousands of new sites are coming up at the Internet. They need new logos, banners etc. Most webmasters doesn’t have enough time to doesn’t perfer to spend time on these graphics. Rather they are willing to pay someone to do the job for them which is easier and less time consuming for them. For example, Mr. X wants to start his site and he knows PHP/HTML/CSS but doesn’t have much experience on graphics. So now either he have to buy the Adobe Photoshop or similar graphics design software and then learn it to complete the graphcis parts (e.g. logo, banners etc.) of his new site (which is time consuming and expensive) or he can simply pay someone $100-$200 to make a new logo and banner for him. What do you think he will do? option one or option two? To my opinion majority of the webmasters will follow option two and hire someone to complete the logo and banner.

Here comes the best part for Bangladeshi people. You already know you can provide him the best and cheapest graphics product as you don’t have to pay much for the software and if you have a little experience in graphics, you can easily satisfy him. Moreover, if you can satisfy your client in one job, you will have repeated orders in his future sites or graphics jobs!!

What do you need to start working as a Graphics Designer?

1. Software (such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Paintshop Pro etc.)

2. A computer with internet connection

3. Membership on some forums and freelance sites

4. A way to handle money transfer that suits the client and you both!!

I hope you can easily manage no 1 and 2 so lets talk about the rest. If you are already a member at DigitalPoint, you can check the Buy, Sale and Trade Section (specially the contest section) to find out what type of grpahics jobs are available or in demand among the buyers. Try to do a research on currently active and past graphics jobs to find out the quality and requirements of the buyers. Read the threads and other member’s posts so that it becomes clear to you. Now there are a few more forums where you can find graphics related jobs such as…

OS Empire – http://www.osempire.com/community/index.php

V7N forum – http://www.v7n.com/forums/

And many other forums if you search on google. Also there are many freelance sites where you will find the jobs you are seeking such as…

www.freelance.com

www.ifreelance.com

www.getafreelancer.com

www.elance.com

I haven’t discussed much on freelance sites and hope to tell you people more about them in my future articles.

You can either find jobs at those places or you can also create your own banners, logos, website PSD templates etc. and sell them easily on forums. Specially if you can sell them bulk and in cheap price, people will sure be interested and this will help you to create a good reputation among the buyers. I also want to mention another point which is, after getting and completing a few jobs (and having some cold cash in your money account), try to build a website where you can showcase your graphics example etc. and your previous clients’ review on your job. This will help you a lot to attract new buyers from forums and freelance sites as well as direct buyers from your website.

I have just discussed the basics on how you can start and run your business as a graphics designer and hope this will help you. I hope I will discuss more in future and if you have any comment, feel free to share with us.