![]() ![]() Add it all to a Zip file and send it to your client in whatever way is easiest for you. When you design a brochure, provide the InDesign file, any placed vector art, and any image files (including any PSD files that may be required to make edits). When you design a logo, provide the vector files. If you delay, you will tick them off immediately, and for many people, there’s just no getting back to a good place with them once that happens. ![]() ![]() Trust me, if you’ve been paid for the work, don’t delay in providing those files to the client with a smile on your face. If you want to be an asshole about a few files that you’ve already been paid for producing, you’re doing nothing but pissing off your (now former) client. Refusing to hand-over the source files (including those priceless layered Photoshop files) is NOT how you earn more work from that client later on. The world we live in simply doesn’t afford us some of the luxuries designers had decades ago with regard to keeping the source files. We’re probably talking about a corporate identity kit, or an ad, or a brochure. You likely aren’t creating a work of art. But it doesn’t cover the “working files.” So unless the contract did stipulate that you hand over the source files, you aren’t legally obliged to do so. As such, you do not own the rights to the work-those rights are transferred to the client when you get paid. Save yourself the time, that's where the true value is.Unless you had a contract that spells-out otherwise, you are considered work for hire. Not to mention if you're the sole keeper of those files you'll usually spend more time dealing with them every time they need it. ![]() Typically bigger agencies with larger clients will give them all of the files, which is how you justify charging more. So I say that you do good work, charge a fair rate and make it an all inclusive package so they have what they need. It's easier to let them handle that, I feel like charging extra for files like that can make clients feel like you're nickeling and diming them. If I design a logo or something like that they'll usually need the vector file to send to printers, vendors, etc. I suppose you don't HAVE to, a lot of people don't, but again the clients I work with I'm usually one designer out of a few they might contract for different things. You pay X and you get your files, all of them. But I agree with some statements that I charge for that, not extra, it's all included in the price. The way I see it, they're paying me to create something for it and they get ownership after all is said and done (although I retain the right to display the work in my portfolio). Personally, I always give them the files, whether they ask or not. My recommendation if you don't have a contract, is to make one for the next job and use it for every new job from here-on-out. Yes, legally you don't have to give them these files, but you may end up with one less regular client as a result. If you didn't use a contract, you may end up with an angry client if you choose to put your foot down and demand payment for source files, because s/he may believe that these files are owed to them. In this instance, you only need to provide what was agreed to before the work began you should have had a contract which stipulated deliverables. If this person gives you a 1099 instead, you're a contract worker and you own everything you make. and this person gives you a W2, you're an employee and they own everything you make. I only ask because for me the word "boss" means someone for whom I am an employee, and who owns everything I create during that employment, including source psd files.Ī better way to identify your working relationship is with tax documents. Join our Discord server Design Subreddits LIST Please report any posts which break these rules, to maintain the quality of the subreddit. No Candid / Non-Consenting Explicit / Sensitive ContentĬontact / Engage Moderators Appropriatelyįor full explanation of the rules see here. Shared work must have a comment for context and use the green "Sharing Work" flair. ![]()
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