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Designing a leaflet for a customer
A customer came into my workplace and asked for a leaflet to be designed
for his company. He explained he is a window, gutter and fascia cleaner
who did a bit of gardening too.
He brought in a sheet of paper with what he wanted written on the leaflet
1. The telephone number
2. What work he carried out
3. The name of his company
4. And the logo design he wanted
He didn’t give me any idea of what colours or styles he wanted on there other than he wanted the
leaflet to look busy and wanted a few soap bubbles on it.
Research undertaken
Before getting started on the leaflet design I had to take into account what sort of images, colours and
styles I would use.
1. I searched “window cleaner” on Google and ideas started to come into my head with the sort of
layout that I thought would look good.
2. I then searched fascias, gutters, decking, patios and driveways so I could get a good look at
some of the pictures they had available.
3. I finally then looked at previous leaflets on the computer that an ex employee did for a few
customers in the past, to get to terms with what looks good and what doesn’t.
Designing
So opening Photoshop I noted down some ideas, things like images of window cleaners, bubbles, I
experimented with a few colours, like blue and orange etc.
I couldn’t decide on what colour to use for the background so my boss (Paul) suggested typing out all
the information on the leaflet first, and then work my way towards the background.
So following his idea I wrote down all the information on the leaflet, and sorted out where everything
was going to go before changing colours and sizes.
Adding a few images onto the leaflet, I asked for a second opinion off Paul on what images should be
used as they were a lot of images of the same thing, I wanted to get the right ones relevant to the
customer’s job description, the most realistic one, and the ones that looked best on the leaflet.
Once gathering the images we thought looked best, I got to work on the layout of the pictures.
Image manipulation
A lot of the images I had off the computer already, but the one of the pictures which fitted well had too
much of a background in it, so using the “magnetic lasso” tool, on the picture of a window cleaner I

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went round the shape of the figure, cut and pasted it and got rid of the background, so I could use the
figure on its own without having to deal with the background.
The other images involved things like a decking, patio, guttering, which I wanted to keep as they were
so you could see what the picture were of. But once I had put all the pictures in a layout on the
background (which had been left white till the end), they didn’t look very tidy
because they had sharp edges and they weren’t blending into each other as I
would have liked.
So adding a vector mask to a layer with one of the pictures on, I used the paint
brush tool and went round the edges, and did this to all the layers which had the
pictures, which removed the sharpness and made it look smoother so the images
could lie on top of each other and fit together better on the flyer itself.
After doing this to the edges of all the pictures I was able to make them as big and small as I want and
lay them in a place which would look good, whether it was on top of each other, crossing etc.
When I finally found the right places for all the pictures (which took a few attempts), I went back to the
font, because of all the activity going on in the background the writing on the leaflet had to stand out,
because it’s important for the viewers to be able to not only see but understand what it says.
My initial thought was a bright colour, I immediately thought of yellow, so I went
with yellow to see what it would look like. Because of the busy background the
writing would not work just yellow so I experimented with different shadings and
outlines, and it turned out that more outline stands out more on the leaflet
against all the pictures.
I have tried a number of colours but the yellow seems to stand out more against the pictures so for the
benefit of the customer, viewers and the leaflet I decided to proceed with the yellow, because it had the
best outcome.
Not wanting too much yellow on the leaflet, I decided to keep the job description in the same colour, but
change the colour of the telephone numbers and the name of the
business.
But because of the busy image background shadows will make the
numbers stand out that bit more. An outline is helpful, because it makes
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from the background, being careful of what colours will be used as not all colours will have the same
effect.
I thought because we have already used yellow
(which was a colour that stood out), after looking at
all of the colour options, my favourite one and the
one that I thought stood out best was the blue and
black.
The font was a lot easier because I wanted it to be a
rounded font but still simple and plain, so finding a
font was not a problem because it gives the leaflet a
little variety in terms of font. In the end I chose the
top font which is called “copper black” I thought this
was the most effective.
Designing the logo
The customer who came in did not have a logo, and because he also wants a van sign written I had to
come up with a logo idea which would look good not only on the leaflet but on a van also. He drew a
brief picture to show us what he was aiming to have, which
looked a bit like this.
But left it to us to come up with a nice simple logo he could
start using for his business. So I had a mess around with
trying to get the layout of the text right and as it was in the
diagram I was given, before looking through the fonts we had
available on the computer. It was simple enough because I used the cut tool, which allowed me to cut
out bits of the letters so they could slot in the right place.
On our work computer we have lots of fonts available for us to use, I checked out the fonts available on
word because they offer simple yet effective fonts which are what we are looking for.
I can see that the simpler the text is the more it will look better in the layout that I have to work with.
And the more complex the font the harder it will be to understand and
see against the busy background.
Going with the simple technique out of the designs I came up with, I
went on to further investigation on other simple fonts which looked
similar and finally decided on the “Bell MT” font.
After a few alterations in Photoshop this is the final logo design. It’s bold simple, effective and stands
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the background around the logo is a blue colour so it doesn’t clash. This was done by typing out the
letters used, cutting out the “c” and placing it on top of the “d” and the erasing a bit of the “c” to make it
look like it was going behind and coming back out on top. The font I used was “bell MT”, it did look a
little different on Word than it did on Photoshop, but I thought it looked better in Photoshop.
Proofing
I gave the customer a ring and asked him to come and proof the design. When he came in a few days
later I showed him the design, and he was very pleased with the outcome, he stated that it was
“wonderful”. He didn’t want to change anything on it; all he had asked me to do was add “solar panel
cleaning” to the list of jobs on there.
I did this in front of the customer, by clicking on the text box and adding another line. Obviously had to
size the whole text box down a bit to make it fit, but he was happy with what it looked like and paid the
deposit, so I saved my artwork “for web & devices”, set the standard to “maximum” and saved it on to
the desktop ready to be sent off.
I had a few problems while sending the artwork to our printers, firstly they phoned and explained that
there was low resolution and could we fix it. I then emailed the next day asking what the problem was
and they replied that the whole leaflet had a
very low resolution including the text.
(Email of screen shots)
So I went on Photoshop and changed the resolution to a
higher number, and resent the new artwork back over as
an attachment in an email. I still had problems because
they then emailed me back explaining that the text was fine
now, it was just the pictures, they stated that I should
exchange the pictures for bigger ones, or leave them and
proceed with the printing, and the only problem was that the printing quality will be very poor.

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Having a problem with the images, resulted in having to change the whole design of the background
meaning, the customer would have to look at the final design and proof it again before sending it off.
Going ahead with changing the pictures, when getting to the final design, I decided to ask a good friend
of the company, who did our website, because he
knows a lot of things about resolution etc. He
replied to my email quite fast and told me overall it
was good for resolution, so ahead I went to
sending it off again to the printers
I had to contact the customer to come in and proof
the design
and he
seemed to like it, I had to explain to him what the problem was and
he was very understanding and wanted to keep it like that and told
me to send it off. So all in all the customer, printers and myself were
very happy with the outcome despite the problems we had, I was
able to overcome this and sort it out.
Once the leaflet is sorted out we ask the printers via email (with the
attached leaflet file) for 5000 single sided copies, at 130gsm gloss they will then be dispatched and
posted,delivery varies on time of order, but will usually take 5+ days.
Designing stage
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The customer asked if he could have a picture of a window cleaner on it, so I did exactly that. By
getting an image of a window cleaner and another image that went on there to show that by adding a
vector mask to the images it will get rid of the sharp edges, using the paintbrush tool so other images
on there can overlap each other and look smoother as if it was to be one whole image.
Once I had done all this to the images on the leaflet I finally had
a background, a busy one which is what the customer asked
for. It was quite easy
to do this because
you only have to go
around the edges of
the pictures that are
going to be touching
and as you can see it
works quite well
because there are no
white spaces on the page.
To know where to put the next bit of text I had to put the logo
on their first to see where I was going to put it. “Window,
cleaning and fascias”. This font is “Arial rounded” I had to
use my instinct with this one and not keep them in the same colour, putting cleaning and fascias on an
angle using the transform tool (Ctrl+T), I thought added effect to
the whole leaflet and looked a lot better. With the word window
being black it didn’t
stand out as well as I
had hoped so putting a
white edge around
made it stand out
more, and I decided to
put “cleaning+fascias”
in the same colour as
the numbers so there
is a colour theme going on the leaflet.
The numbers “copper black” stood out exactly as I had
planned them to, adding a black outline using the “stroke” tool by double clicking on the layer. Tasha
advised me to put a “T” and an “M” in front of the numbers as it will look more professional and the
audience will know then what number is what. The font used in the job description is just “Arial rounded

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also”, I used this because the job description is one of the most important things to see on the leaflet I
wanted it to look as plain but bold as I could get it before it becomes too much.
Finally the only thing left on the leaflet I had to do
which the customer asked for, was to put some
bubbles on there, I found a free image on the
internet of a bubble and copied it into Photoshop,
I used the “magnetic lasso” tool and drew around
it and then copied it onto the leaflet, duplicated
the layer and spread out all the bubbles where I
thought they would look best, resizing each one
so they would all look different sizes and would
give it more effect on the leaflet.
The pictures I used for the leaflet design were
copyright free images I was able to have on the
creative commons website. The copyright law
gives the creators' rights to control the ways in which their material may be used.
In many cases, the creator will also have the right to be identified as the author and to object to
distortions of his work. Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company
creates a work. In short, work that expresses an idea may be protected, but not the idea behind it.
Only the owner or their exclusive licensee can bring proceedings in the courts.
The leaflet was saved as a photoshop document and saved in our work files. When sending it off to the
printers they asked us to send it as a JPEG, because of the image resolution quality was better in a
JPEG file format.
Images can also be saved as PNG, PDF and GIFF formats.
So saving it as a JPEG as well we kept both of the files for future references.

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Process Stage one Stage two Stage three Stage four
Customer
requirements
The customer arrives
with information.
Information is
transferred from
customer notes to
computer using
scanner.
Upload
information from
scanner and
save
appropriately.
Using
information
planning
begins.
Setup Opening the design
software I will be using
and setting dimensions
to leaflet requirements.
Changing
resolution of the
document to fit the
needs of the
printers.
Making sure I
save it to
appropriate file
name and
location.
Start designing.
Logo design Open customers'
information to follow on
with designing.
Drawing a rough
guide to what the
customer would
like on an
appropriate
software program.
Editing logo to
fit and stand out
as a company
name on the
leaflet.
Save as
appropriate file
and name as it
will be used
later on.
Background
(pictures)
Open browser and find
a site wich provides
free images.
Find related
images to job
description and
save in computer
files for use on the
design software.
Open images in
software and set
them out in a
clean layout so
they can been
seen.
Edit the images
to fit on the
leaflet and
colour fix,
without no
sharp edges
that will be
noticed.
Failing to find copyright free images will result in having to take them myself with work camera.
Contents Type contents out
using customer
information given and
choose a clear font.
Set out contents in
a layout that fits
and looks smart.
Edit contents in
terms of colours
and effect to
make it stand
out against
background.
Find a perfect
size to have the
contents that
will stand out
on the leaflet.
Telephone number Type out number given
by customer and find a
bold font.
Set the number in
an appropriate
place on leaflet
that will stand out.
Edit the
numbers so
they are bold
and easy for the
audience to
read.
Resize the
number so it
look sbig
enough to see
and looks good
on the leaflet

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Prices
Products
Products and Prices
Price
Design Time
Total Price
itself.
Finalizing Using customers
information double
checking that your
design meets the
requirements.
If not then add the
additional
information
(pictures etc.)
Edit and size
them if needed.
Bring customer
in to proof your
design.
If for some reason the customer does not like the design then get the customer to go over the design with you on the computer and
make any changes to the leaflet that they like and make sure they finalise the design before sending it off.
Sending Save the file in
separate file location
under the appropriate
file name and format
that is needed for the
printers.
Opening email
attach the leaflet
design to a new
email and not
down any
requirements e.g.
quality, size etc.
Send the email
and wait for
response by
phone.
Wait for
phonecall
response, and
pay for items
over the phone.
Sometimes problems can occur when sending off leaflet, so the response off the printers will let you know, any problems may result
in re designing, editing or even starting over. If this is the case then the design process will have to be done again and proofing with
the customer will be necessary also.

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Sources
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commercial_Box_Gutter.jpeg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decking_4.jpg
https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=active&hl=en&tbs=simg:CAESWQnMK2wzG6dGlBp
FCxCwjKcIGjwKOggBEhTBA8IDkwPEA6ADqgOfBL8D1wWWAxogesXHRoaGKvaIxoe79KX
4wdeFmGePyHRo6mqbapX1hrgMIZdgtV8p9vNz&q=window+cleaner&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=
bSGnUeKIGI64hAfzqICoBw&ved=0CDgQsw4&biw=986&bih=587#imgrc=_
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=window+cleaners&tbs=sur:fmc&biw=986&bih=587&s
ei=Eh6nUZfPOcXOOP37gcAG&tbm=isch