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Minimum Design Standards
DesignCrowd’s Quality Standards outline our requirements for your design submissions including text, graphics, photos, designs and other artwork. As a designer, you must comply with these standards to be eligible to receive payment for your designs.
Only submit original work
Your design must be entirely your own work. Do not copy another design.
Never use stock images, clip-art or purchased vectors in a logo design, illustration design or icon design contest. Use of stock images in any other contest must be declared. You must also be able to demonstrate that you own the rights to any stock images used.
If you are reported for using stock or copying designs your account will be deactivated without prospect of reactivation.
Submit in approved formats
Final design files must be in the following formats:
- Logo / graphic design: EPS and AI
- Web / Wordpress design: PSD
We also recommend you upload a PDF of your designs to accommodate clients who do not own the Adobe Creative Suite.
Ensure that designs are high quality vectors
All elements within your design file must be vector components. All vectors must be editable and scalable. There should be no raster elements.
In addition:
- All fonts should be converted to outlines
- Closed shapes should not contain any breaks or gaps in the outline of your vector
- Unnecessary shapes should be removed
Submissions with vectors not possessing these attributes will be rejected.
Create nice preview images
Preview Images should be 1200px x 1000px (300dpi). Preview images should be .jpg format.
Non-Compliance
Failure to comply with the Quality Standards can result in the removal of your designs, suspension of your account and in some cases, deactivation. We may also withhold, cancel or reverse payments to you where we believe your designs are in violation of these standards.
DesignCrowd reserves the right to deem the general quality of a submission to be unacceptable and thus non-compliant with these standards. As a guideline, we define reasonable quality as designs that are:
- Highly professional
- Meeting the brief
- Suitable for the purpose and target market
Note that in addition to the Quality Standards, the DesignCrowd User Agreement details your rights and responsibilities when using our service.
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Our goal is to create the world’s greatest marketplace for design and you’re part of it! We need your help to ensure that our community is defined by quality design.