Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Answers to common questions

Every six months or so I gather up all the common questions I've received and attempt to answer them here in my blog. This time I've focused mostly on the "what do you use" and "what's your favorite" type of questions...

Where you do find fonts?
dafont.com (freebies)
fonts.com

What stock photo site do you use?
istock

Where do you get one-off prints?
mpix
Artistic Photo Canvas

Where do you get other printing (postcards, business cards etc)?
Vistaprint
MOO MiniCards, Business Cards, Postcards.

Where do you register domains/host your personal sites?
godaddy.com

Fav Photoshop plug-ins?
onOne Software suite
Sitegrinder

Where do you get your Canada shirts?
Mostly ebay and occasional trips to Canada

Nikon or Canon?
Nikon D300 & D200

iPhone?
Yes

Twitter?
yes, @davecross

Non-destructive workflow?
almost always (I couldn't resist one more mention of working non-destructively)

[N.B. Full disclosure: some of these companies send me a few cents if you buy from them. But I still only post the ones that I use myself and am very happy with]

2 comments:

Brian said...

Dave,
I don't want to bad mouth Vistaprint, but I keep hearing complaints about the company recharging credit cards after purchasing the free business cards they offer. I was looking into using them to print stuff for my upcoming wedding since they seem to have the best prices, but now I am hesitant. Have you heard anything about this or had any problems?

Dave Cross said...

Brian,
The only "complaint" that I have about Vista Print is that they send out a few too many emails about other offers. I have not had or heard about the credit card problem you mention.