Photo for charity website

Dave_C_2

Corona wrote: »

No, we don't have a logo - it's on the TO DO list. All staff bar one (who gets paid just one day a week) are volunteers. We've lost most of our funding due to various cutback (including from the NHS - even though 50% of our clients come via their GPs !!)

That's a good idea about finding someone who can design something for us. Will start asking around. Thank you

Why not design your own logo?

The reason I ask is that the professional ones can be disastrous, witness the Lisa Simpson blow job that is the London Olympics logo

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Dave

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mildred1978 wrote: »

Surely you need a logo before a website?? I've volunteered for a small charity where not one person got paid, but the first thing we did was have a logo designed. Think it happened before the charity was even registered!!

Our charity has been in existence for 12 years and we've done without a logo so far. Depends on how much money the charity has (to pay someone to design it)? Also, lots of small charities / community groups have websites but don't have logos - honestly!)

Thanks for the advice.

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Dave_C wrote: »

Why not design your own logo?

The reason I ask is that the professional ones can be disastrous, witness the Lisa Simpson blow job that is the London Olympics logo

Here's more.

Dave

:):) Too true!

That's a great idea. At the risk of sounding technologically inept, if we were to try to design our own, where would we start ??? Is there a website? Do we need a particular piece of software?

victor2

Corona wrote: »

At the risk of sounding technologically inept, if we were to try to design our own, where would we start ??? Is there a website? Do we need a particular piece of software?

You just need someone with a little bit of artistic talent. Let them sketch ideas, then worry about getting it onto a computer. Look around at similar charities and see what they use as a logo.
if it's simple text on a plain background, something like Word is quite capable of it and you can play around with fonts to your heart's content. If you want to incorporate a photograph, then someone with reasonable camera skills will probably also have acces to some image editing software.
Keep it simple!

vax2002

I would worry more about a copyright flagrancy case than upsetting someone.
make sure you have a written licence to use the image in the way described.
Even some images on these free websites are not the property of the websites
There is a trade in leaving images out to be stolen, tracking down usage and billing the user for its use plus flagrancy charges, a flagrancy charge is a punishment payment for copyright theft and can be enforced via the courts.
In short make sure you have the correct licence or use one of your own images.