FAQ/DISign TIps, How To's Post 1 & 2

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Here is what I am recommending, but I would like your feedback. See the red bolded for specific questions.

This information will be in Post 1
Frequently Asked Questions/DISign Tip thread
This thread is a place for people to find information that would be useful to beginning DISigners. It isn’t meant to have all the information, but hopefully it is a place to collect, post and share new information.

REMEMBER – These designs are FREE and they cannot be SOLD or used for profit in ANY way whatsoever!!!!

To keep it from getting to 200 pages (which limits its use), it’s going to be a locked thread. If you would like information added to the thread, PM me and I will include it.

Below is the index for the posts in this thread
· Post 2 – How Do I Request a DISign
· Post 3 – What software program do you use?
· Post 4 – Where do you get your clip-art, logos & wallpaper?
· Post 5 – Where do you get your fonts and how do you install them?
· Post 6 – DISign Tips
· Post 7 – Making a Name in a Picture
· Post 8 – Making a DISign In Photo-Impact
· Post 9 – Making a DISign in MS Word Dolly is going to do
· Post 10 – Photo-Sharing Sites
· Post 11 – Printing your DISign.
· Post 12 – Making a T-Shirt, Ironing on the Transfer
· Post 13 – Tie-dyeing Shirts
· Post 14 – Making an Autograph Book - Trudie (AKA: MusicMouse) is going to do.
· Post 15 – Scrapping Information
· Post 16 – What Do You Make For Your Vacation?
· Post 17 –

What am I missing? What else would you like included?


Post 2
How do I request a design?
There are several DISers who are more than happy to help with a design. The best place to start is here http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=892887. Look through the different designers, find a designer that you like and determine if the designer is still personalizing/customizing designs. If they are, click on their thread and follow the directions listed. Some important things to know
• Read the first page in the designers thread. They normally tell you how they want you to request the personalization. Some designers want private messages, some want postings in their thread and others might prefer an email. Please follow their directions if you want them to personalize. It is frustrating for a designer to spend a lot of time posting how they can best meet your needs and then have the requester ignore the guidelines set up.
• If a Designer has a website, go through their website. You might find that a design you want personalized has already been personalized. I recently did some autograph pages for “Catherine” and another requester wanted the same design with the name Catherine.
• Please do not request the same design from multiple designers – they have a lot of requests and do not want to be duplicating each other’s work – in addition – it can take a while to design a custom shirt and asking two people to design a shirt and only choosing one is wasting the other designers time. If someone is found asking for the same design in two different threads, the designers may decide to not customize/finish the design.
• If you want several DISigners to work on a request, post the request in a new thread.
• If you want something you haven’t seen in someone’s thread, start a new thread. Carefully describe what would like and more than likely someone will see your request and respond.
• AND - Please be patient! Sometimes it takes awhile to finish a design. Many of the DISigners have families, jobs, other outside interests, and they are not at their computer all day, every day. If you ask a designer for something personalize, they will respond to you if they are not going to do it. If you need the DISign quickly let the DISigner know and if they can’t do it quickly they will tell you. If you find that you do not want to wait, please cancel your request with the original DISigner before you ask someone else (they may be ready to post it)!