Correct PS wording when invoicing clients
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#1. "RE: Correct PS wording when invoicing clients" | In response to Reply # 0
Doug
The following is a listing of my last invoice:
Basic Labor
Day rate: 2,000
Number of days: 1
Day Rate total: 2,000
Overtime rate: 200
Overtime hours: 200
Over time rate total: 400.00
Total Basic Labor: 2,400
Film Costs
Color negative film rate: 20.00 per roll
Number or color film rolls: 10
Color negative film cost: 200
Slide film rate: 30.00 per roll
Number of slide film rolls: 5
Slide film cost: 150
Black and white film rate: 25.00 per roll
Number of slide film rolls: 10
Black and white film cost: 250
Total film cost: 600
Digital Dark Room
Labor rate: 100 per hour
Total hours: 10
Digital dark room cost: 1,000
Total digital dark room cost: 1,000
Event Total
4,000
I have line items on my price sheet for digital dark room options. Certain thins are included, for instance: 1 copy in color and 1 copy in B&W for each shot that is kept. Things like sepia tone, or hand coloring are extra and can be purchased in bulk or by image. I have 3 packages for my digital dark room: Basic, Plus, and Premium. In the basic package I am making simple adjustments like levels and curves, basically stuff I can batch produce. In the plus package I'll "clean up" the photos, removing things that got stuck in the composition, I'll remove zits/pimples, remove wrinkles, make level and curve adjsutments, and also do some saturation adjustments. In my premium package, I do all of the afore mentioned as well as introduce my own creative vision. Most people opt for the plus as the premium package is pricey.
In the example I listed above the couple asked that I do a few hand color images and a bunch of sepia tone shots.
When explaining the digital dark room I explain to my customers that spending time in the digital dark room is similar to me actually developing the film as opposed to dropping it off to Wal Mart. They understand when I put it like that.
I hope this was helpful.
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#3. "RE: Correct PS wording when invoicing clients" | In response to Reply # 1
Thanks guys you have been most helpful in sharing this very useful information with me.
In fact I mentioned to my lab manager here in Durban, South Africa this evening I was going to post this request and he to asked me to convey back to him how the international digital photography community worded it as he has often been asked the same question by other digital photographers in this city.
Thanks again
Doug
"You don't take a photograph, you make it"
Ansel Adams
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#2. "RE: Correct PS wording when invoicing clients" | In response to Reply # 0
I generally use the following depending on what I actually did for the client:
Digital Image Manipulation
Digital Retouching
Digital Darkroom processing
Digital Photo Enhancment
-WJ
Digital Image Manipulation
Digital Retouching
Digital Darkroom processing
Digital Photo Enhancment
-WJ
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#4. "RE: Correct PS wording when invoicing clients" | In response to Reply # 2
Doug,
I posed the same sort of question in the Café a few weeks ago. Check it out for a different view on this topic.
In my business we do the photography, charge for film and processing and at that point would either supply the transparencies to the client or scan here at the office and begin the graphics part of the work.
Since we got the D100 we charge for photography as usual and the client saves on film and processing and we have the digital file 2-3 days ahead of previous.
At that point I have found that the post scanning workflow is the same as the post digital capture workflow. All images must be opened, optimized for white point, black point, colour balance, sharpening, etc...
I call this process IMAGE OPTIMIZATION and the client must realize that they are NOT saving on scanning! It actually takes alot of time to open images in Capture and pre-optimize before sending to Photoshop.
Hope that helps,
Steve O'Collin
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For example, in billing a client who has hired me for a full day, my invoice would show my day rate plus the cost of say the supplied prints.
As some of my clients are clueless as to what Photoshop is or does, I also need to invoice for my time spent behind my computer in processing those images using Photoshop. What other wording do you use other than "Adobe Photoshop"?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Doug Saunders
www.dougsaunders.co.za