Banners, logo or any similar graphics that needs to be personalised. What do you usually prefer to do? Design it yourself or do you hire designer or do you create the contest between your members?

What is the best way out? Would you like to share your experience?

I design my own lol

i also designed my own logo and banner. i use photofiltre

design yourself... unless you have 0 knowledge in making a graphic, then u could do a contest

i designed my own logo and banner. i use photoshop

Am too lazy to do my own work
so my staff does it for me.

Yep, I do my own stuff - I barely get time with all the
other requests... but I still prefer to capture my own
unique style in my work. However, if workload got too
much I would most likely focus on doing client work to
keep the standard high - and outsource any work I
cannot do myself. Always good to learn design fundamentals.

If you don't know anything about design, you should probably pay someone you know to do it, but if you design something yourself, you should draw it out on paper before you ever touch the computer, then when you have a good thumbnail drawn, start with the computer so you don't waste too much time thinking of ideas.

I learned from this guy http://technohelpnow.com

Originally Posted by starlington

Banners, logo or any similar graphics that needs to be personalised. What do you usually prefer to do? Design it yourself or do you hire designer or do you create the contest between your members?

What is the best way out? Would you like to share your experience?

Depends on your community if you can get your members to compete for it. I design alot of my own because it is sort of a hobby of mine although i don't have the time to do that all the time. A few bucks will usually get you a nice banner