Guides to getting artwork approved
Practical write-ups on running an approval round without losing the thread: templates, checklists, and the version mistakes that cost a reprint.
- Artwork approval email templates that get a clear yesFour templates to copy — first proof, follow-up, revision, and getting a verbal yes on the record — and the three jobs no email can do.
- Client feedback form template for designers (copy and paste)Three feedback forms you can paste into an email or a doc today, and the reasoning behind every field so you can cut the ones you do not need.
- Creative brief template for small agencies and freelancersOne page, ten fields, two worked examples — and the four answers without which the rest of the brief is decoration.
- Proof of approval: what an artwork audit trail actually has to containFive facts an approval has to carry to be worth anything a month later — and why a thread of replies carries none of them reliably.
- Design sign-off sheet template (print, sign and wrap versions)The document that records the yes — three industry versions, and the seven fields without which a signature proves nothing.
- How to comment on a PDF — and collect everyone's feedback in one placeThe four free ways to mark up a PDF, and the problem none of them solve: four people marking up four copies of the same file.
- File naming conventions for design files (and the reprint they prevent)The convention, the five rules behind it, and how version control works for people who will never use Git - so the wrong file cannot reach the press.
- The proof approval checklist: before you send, and before you printThree short lists: what to check before the proof leaves, what to ask the customer to check, and what to confirm before it goes to press.
- How many revisions should you offer? A revision policy templateName the number, define what counts as a round, say what happens after — and the reason round five is almost never the client's fault.
- What is a print proof? Types, costs, and how to approve oneThe six kinds of proof a shop sends, what each one can and cannot settle, and the glossary customers keep asking you to explain.
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