CorelDRAW is a great vector graphic app, but there ain't that much free stuff on the web to help people master it.
I've got a small budget to sponsor free tuturials on advanced CorelDRAW techniques, so if you think you can write one we will pay you, but the tuturial will be free for all after that.
There are a few guys selling tuturial out here. Good on you. Not trying to undercut you or something. It's just that some of this knowledge should be free. I definitely won't allow anyone to rip off your work.
Basically, what I'm asking is look at your portfolio. Find a few cool designs that you spent a bit of time mastering and tell us how you did it. We'll help you with making it concise and interesting (subediting). The article will have your name and a link to your portfolio and we pay you a prior agreed sum upon completion, but I wouldn't expect the money to be your main motivation.
vobla73 said:It's just that some of this knowledge should be free
Why should knowledge be free? Where is that guaranteed? Is that even feasible?
If knowledge 'should be free', governments wouldn't tax to provide schools. Teachers, whose commodity is knowledge, would have no means with which to provide sustenance for themselves. We are glad to help when people get stuck and share but to ask us to 'give it away' ultimately costs us our livelihood. I would argue that food should be free as it is even more vital to our day-to-day survival than CorelDraw knowledge. I don't know anyone giving food away. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
The evolving culture of the Internet and the "you-tube" ilk has created a climate where well-meaning yet misguided individuals give knowledge away for the glory, the traffic, and the hit counter, feeding narcissism and co-opting theft. As a result of this, what has happened is there is a lot of mediocre material in response. If you are satisfied with a broadening of knowledge while reducing its depth, you will end up with a society of underperformers to the potential inherent. True professionals, who provide quality in-depth knowledge transfer, are able to do it because they have invested the time and the expensive training to become experts on the subject. There is a personal cost in gaining the knowledge. There must be a return to offset this cost or we must turn elsewhere.
The notion that things 'should be free' is a trap. It is made by those who seek to acquire without effort and cost. While I applaud your efforts to expand the knowledge base of CorelDraw, I cannot condone the notion that 'some of this knowledge should be free' Change the word should to could and I might readily agree.
End Rant.
Hunter, I thank you so much for sharing the link!
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Didn't I make it clear that we PAY THE WRITER, but then it's free for everyone?
vobla73 said: Didn't I make it clear that we PAY THE WRITER, but then it's free for everyone?
Do you know the difference between intellectual properties and ownership of goods?
Let me explain it in this way: You can buy a car, then it is yours. What you will do with it, is up to you. Maybe you want it to be free to use for everyone. YOU are the owner.
With every intellectual creation you are only able to acquire the rights of use, not the rights of ownership. It's completely impossible, cause the owner remains the creator. In your case you can pay the writer for the rights of distribution, and it's HIS choice, if you are allowed to distribute it to everyone. That's called Copyright, and it's often underestimated.
you funny people :-)
Foster provides a whole infrastructure for tutorials. They are all cheap.
Foster won't accept any material that is inaccruate.
Why would anyone expect this material for zip?
What would you like a tutorial on? I'll put a week into one for you for $1K. Mind you the last one I did took a month and earned about $300. If it had earned $3K I might have been encouraged to update it.
We are all better served by getting behind Foster and buying some tutorials if required to encourage more to be written.
vobla73 said: you funny people :-)
What is so funny?
Could you explain what makes it worth your while to pay for a tutorial that you will give away for free? Can I safely assume that you will be making money from ad's on your site? Can I also assume that you then pay commission on the ad revenue to the tutorial providers?
Sorry, no ads on the site, not additional revenue. Even if there was, we pay for tutorials up-front. The writer does not make the work for free.
WE PAY UP FRONT.
As I said, you are funny people here. You sweat over such small stuff. Half the web runs on free open source.
To answer your question, Alfred, we buy graphic designs in bulk from freelance graphic designers. Usually unused or discarded designs. It is in our direct interest to make this knowledge available to our suppliers and raise the quality of their work.
Anyway, thanx all for the discussion. It is wrong forum, obviously.