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.
Hunter said:it's kind of the same mentality that has inundated many newsgroups and forums where people come in and start "asking" (but in reality it's kind of an odd passive/aggressive demanding) for fully blown-out websites, logos, banners, display signs, etc. for free with the promise of "oh, I'll tell people you made it for me. you'll get lots of business from that, right?
i've noticed that also. it is actually a fraudulent con if someone asks one to do something for free or at a cut rate with the expectation of future work. the 'future work' is a nebulous manipulation similar to saying "give me your money and i could make you a millionaire". yet on the other hand i fully know of people that ask things for free because they honestly do not see the value of art and design. it's usually framed in a drawing-is-easy-for-you type rationalization, thus since it's easy it should be egalitarian... or free.
unfortunately artists don't help the matter much. art prices range between 0 to millions of dollars. this also applies to graphic design pricing, where rates go from 0 to hundreds of dollars an hour. and vindictive critique of other's work doesn't help the situation at all. i've seen designers critize other designer's work to get jobs, remark about the high prices charged and lower the value all around. it's brutal... artists are their own worst problem.
vobla73 said: Didn't I make it clear that we PAY THE WRITER, but then it's free for everyone?
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.