making your own flyers…
i have a gig in a few weeks and im responsible for most of the promotion myself on this one, im wondering if anyone can point me to a easy to use and FREE graphics program that has some decent fonts and stuff for flyer making. any suggestions?
Paint is pretty good! Free too!
Be sure to factor in printing paper/ink.
30 day photoshop trial, watch youtube tutorials for advice. Photoshop is all you’l need for flyers.
either of those will work. Keep it simple and clean. If they are getting printed out make sure they look ok in black & white
it is an open source program that runs similar to photoshop. and it’s free 
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Hey guys, I have a design job I have to do for a night that I’m supposed to be supplying music for as well. Anyone know of any cheap or FREE music sites I can use to get music for the night?
you should sub-contract a DJ 
Use MS Paint and this web sight (down Arrow)
Took me about an hour but i made this and was pretty satisfied with it and it defintely got the job done!
And as far as printing I went to office max had two flyers per piece of paper (glossy which is like 7 cents TOTALLY WORTH IT BTW) and made 100 which costed 14 dollars so 200 flyers for 14 dollars couldnt beat it!!!
Pages (Mac)
Grab gimp or a photoshop 30 day trial and go through a few tutorials online (http://www.good-tutorials.com/ is your best friend). Make a cool background, mess around with some fonts until you find one that looks nice, do some blending (don’t go over the top) and you should be done. It’s not going to look completely professional, but you can’t really expect that given your situation.
Why even bother posting in the thread if you’re just going to be snarky and not provide any help?
Gimp gimp :d inkscape inkscape :d
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He is entitled to his own opinion. I 100% agree with him. Its shitty flyers, terrible parties, club owners, djs, promoters etc. that are making this business so shitty for the professionals. It goes back to the old adage, you are only as strong as your weakest link. If one thing is done by a hack then it just trickles down the line… You have some dude who has never once used a design program trying to design a flyer, its just plain stupid in my opinion… others may feel differently and that is their opinion…
get gimp and a fontviewer. There are tons of free font sites. Make it very simple and very easy to read. Years ago when i would make my design my own for the nights i used to do i would just rob cool pics and use the empty spaces for the info. I thought flyers should look cool but also convey the info effortlessly.
I taught myself on a pirated copy of photoshop 5. I’d like to think they looked pretty damn good
sorry no “professionals” play in my neck of the woods, so its just us hacks trying to put on a night or 2 and have a good time. sorry someone pissed in your listerine though.
raise your hand if you ever used Kinko’s to make copies of flyers!!!
meeeee!!!
i sure have
i’m failing to see what is wrong with either of these things really. why couldn’t a person who is doing a design gig pick music that they like in order to showcase their art? their show would be mostly about art and the music could be played to accompany that show. there are plenty of legal, free sources of music where they can accomplish this pretty easily. you don’t need to be a dj to pick good music that fits your style.
there are also free design programs that will work fine for what the op needs. the flyer isn’t going to be the centerpiece of his gig and is probably the least important aspect of that evening. with that said, if he does a bad job it probably won’t attract people to come see the show. i think even if he does a great job it probably won’t attract that many more people to come see his show. i guess it may depend on the area. i live in vegas and i see more nicely created flyers in a day than most will see in their lives, and never once, NEVER has a flyer design made me go see a show. that could just be me though…i have no idea of what increase a good flyer can actually bring you. i’m more about what comes out of the speakers than the paper of advertisement.
when people ask me what’s making this business so bad for edm professionals i always tell them it’s the shitty flyers.
