#color output
A word of caution from out west. Yes it is great fun, but……
Save money for hard copy output. This is a real challenge, and you must
send your client home with a picture, and it must be good. This will start at
$1000 and go up
You need input i.e. a scanner. Start at $1300
You need graphics editing programs such as photostyler or corel –
something that works in 24 bit color
you need time to master all this stuff
you'll need massive amounts of ram
You need a unique sales pitch. The graphics speak for themselves, you
don't need to sell that. What you need to be able to do is get the customer
over the skepticism of buying this in addition to cabinets. Here in phoenix, a
landscape company uses imaging to sell their landscapeing. The image alone is
$100, not much. They make their money off the landscape.
Here where contruction is king, I am still hard pressed to find companies or
agencies that will spend money on imaging. Yes, they all like it, but the money
is just not in the budget. You need to overcome this, any way your market
allows – i.e. big jobs. Problem here is there arent a lot of big jobs around.
Enough for now. good luck
Mark