Pricing for a small photoshop project

September 6, 2023 10:31 AM

I'm hoping to hire someone to do a parody photoshop of an album cover, pasting in a portion of a personal photo, adding text, and then scaling it to display like an album cover (12x12) so it can be printed and framed. This is just outside of my abilities--I could make a crappy one, but I want a file that looks nice and profesh and will print at a photo center. What is a reasonable amount of $ to offer for this?
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese to Work & Money (7 answers total)

Maybe the MeFi Jobs sub-site, https://jobs.metafilter.com, will have similar tasks that you can use as a baseline?
posted by wenestvedt at 11:15 AM on September 6, 2023

Do you specifically not want this person to use an AI tool?
posted by klausman at 11:29 AM on September 6, 2023

Response by poster: I mean...I guess I don't care as long as it actually does the thing I want and not some weird thirty-fingered monstrosity that gestures at the thing I asked for, which is what happened when I tried to use an AI tool to achieve this lol.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:14 PM on September 6, 2023

You could accomplish this in Canva in a few minutes and do not need special skills to make something of professional quality on Canva.
posted by twelve cent archie at 12:27 PM on September 6, 2023

Best answer: The more guidance you can give the designer, the quicker it can be accomplished. If it's super-simple, you can probably offer $50 - $150 and get a decent result.

seconding - if you post this on Jobs, I'm sure someone here can help you out.
posted by hydra77 at 12:28 PM on September 6, 2023

Response by poster: Hi, please believe me when I say I have already tried to do this MANY times on my own and cannot get the results I would like!
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 1:52 PM on September 6, 2023

I would probably check fiverr for this.
posted by samthemander at 9:59 PM on September 6, 2023