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OPINIONS | Jay Hagstrom
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Stock photography is so practical. It isn’t usually too expensive, and it’s a quick way to show your client a lot of concepts quickly. What happens if the stock you are seeing doesn’t match the concept in your mind? It’s tempting to open Photoshop and begin modifying, but what if you need to modify more than half of the live area? Well, depending on what you’re doing, I’m going to recommend getting a different piece of stock. Are you surprised that I am recommending NOT going the retouching route?
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OPINIONS | Jay Hagstrom
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Thinking about agencies as a bundle of services is problematic, especially set against the backdrop of a steadily shrinking economy. As the services agencies offer become more prevalent, and thereby less expensive, something has to compensate for the institutional costs imposed by agency structure itself. If outsourcing becomes the stopgap for this shortfall, what’s to prevent your clients from arriving at the same conclusion?
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| Comments Off on Let go, and see what happens!
At a company where I once worked, the day after the annual holiday party held a nasty tradition. Everyone would punish the tardiness of the last to arrive by trashing their cubicle. With the exception of the pregnant, no one was exempt from this team-building exercise in cruelty. Even the president of the company had his office filled with wadded paper, rubbish and balloons.
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