: Is it usual for the designer not to hand over the Adobe files used to create projects? I am about to hire a Graphic Designer to help my Web-design company. Besides for designing websites,
I am about to hire a Graphic Designer to help my Web-design company. Besides for designing websites, she will be making Logos and Advertisments. Now, she tells me that it is standard practice for her to retian the Adobe files used to create images and photos. She is happy that I should own the finished jpgs and such but she is reluctant to give me the Adobe files to play with myself.
This bothers me because sometimes for web design I want to change something myself and that wont be possible because I wont have access to the Adobe psd's etc.
Secondly, will my clients not expect to get the Adobe files along with the Logo and Ad?
What is the standard practice with this thing?
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Designer must provide all raw files to a client, if a client would like to make some changes in the future (logotype color for example) in a year or more in 99% he will not be able to find the designer who made this work and ask him for changes
There is no standard practice.
I love to share my raw files with anyone that would like them, but due to copyright right stories/stealing, people are scared to share what they make.
Like you said yourself, you would like to fiddle around with the design. For a graphic designer this can be scary: so you know Photoshop so you can do what I can do. So this is going to make me obsolete...!? These are questions designers can ask them selves. But if you are a good designer you know what you stand for and know what your share in a project is.
I personally see more in the web design/development way of working and was wondering why there isn't a 'Github' like 'social' designing platform.
Open source is the future.
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