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Outsourcing Desktop Publishing (DTP),
which is not a core activity in most organizations, is a wise option. Why not let professionals who have the requisite knowledge, equipment, and expertise handle this process for you?

What Desk Top Publishing Services Can be Outsourced to d’Avid Boutique?
Almost companies today can do everything that is done in UE or US: magazines, books and newspaper layout, cover design, graphics development, development brochures and presentations to name a few.

Who Outsources DTP to d’Avid Boutique?
Projects come in from companies around the world. For example magazine companies that have a monthly magazine send their ongoing layout to d’Avid Boutique. Real estate companies that produce commercial property brochures are having them designed and developed in d’Avid Boutique. Publishers of all kinds outsource DTP to d’Avid Boutique.

What are the other Value Additions possible?
This is another advantage of outsourcing to d’Avid Boutique. Since the companies tend to be larger than their western counterparts, they often can do more and provide integrated turn-key solutions. For example they may have individual departments to provide XML tagging, photo services, content writing, editing and proofing.

Why outsource Desktop Publishing to d’Avid Boutique?
Not all companies have the resources or expertise to perform this job in house. Outsourcing desktop publishing, which is not a core activity in most organizations, is a wise option. d’Avid Boutique’s have the software, equipment and expertise can do this work for you.

The quality of the work has steadily improved and is now at par with international standards. A good company is flexible and can not only take your requirements into account, allowing for last minute changes, but also advise you and offer innovative and distinct solutions.

What is the level of expertise of d’Avid Boutique’s DTP?
There are constant advances in computer and printing technology that change and enhance desktop publishing work. A good Service Providers are abreast with these changes and can offer high quality services. They are familiar with electronic publishing technologies, such as XML. Almost companies understand this line of work thoroughly.

In fact, many companies are becoming more advanced than their western counterparts because the sheer volume and diversity of work being outsourced to d’Avid Boutique. This is causing some companies to grow larger in size and are thus getting broader in their knowledge and experience.

Who Will Do my Work?
Typically the DTP is done by an d’Avid Boutique’s designer with more than 5 years of experience after having graduated from college. He or she will be onine for you.

What software and hardware are used?
We specialize in Adobe products especially Adobe Indesign CS2 and Quarke Xpress too. Our team can provide Photoshop, Illustrator and Golive development too. We provide more aplications from Quark Inc. and Quark Media House SaRL. The computers are typical with MS pro-operating systems, broadband connection and uninterrupted power supply.

What is a Typical Scenario?
The customer and vendor ask and answer questions. A sample is requested. Once the sample is complete and the customer approves of the quality and reliability then a price can be established and the project started. Typically the customer has a template and FTPs the template, written content, photos and images and uploads them so that the vendor can download all that is needed to start. The work is completed and a quality check is done and it is returned to the customer for approval. If corrections are required then these are done and the finished product sent to the customer. The final payment is then made.

How Do I Get Started?
Most customers initially want to evaluate the quality of the work and the cost. They can request that a simple page be developed and returned. This is also a good way to discover the costs. We recommend that you contact us and let our DTP department show you a sample and give you a quote.

Contact us for your DTP and Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress requirements.
Please contact us here with your outsourcing requirements.

This program is perfect for shops that want to head speed and quality.

At d’Avid Boutique, we provide world-class illustration services for books, short stories, poetry, text books, comic books, children’s books, newspaper illustrations and much more. We can bring to life what has been mentioned in the text. Our talented illustrators can give a face to the characters mentioned in your book, display a process or a cycle in a scientific book, create action, emotion and aesthetic appeal for the characters in a book or illustrate a set of instructions in a manual.

Add that touch of creativity to your book or video. Outsource Illustration Services to d’Avid Boutique.

Customers who outsource illustrations to d’Avid Boutique
Mostly companies in the media, advertising, e-learning, publishing or design industries contact us for illustration services. If they do not have the in-house talent, or if they need additional resources to handle new projects or meet deadlines, they outsource.

Illustration services from d’Avid Boutique
- Drawing illustrations for a storyboard that will be used for a movie or training;
- Converting photos to illustrations;
- Conceptualizing and drawing illustrations for school text books;
- Creating children’s sketches for elearning courses;
- Drawing cartoons for an animated movie;
- Enriching existing illustrations with color or shadow;
- Converting illustrations to vector images;
- Colorizing illustrations and even colorizing CAD images;
- Digitizing hand drawings.

Software and hardware used at d’Avid Boutique
At d’Avid Boutique, we excel at creating Adobe Illustrator and hand-drawn illustrations. We have wide experience in providing illustration services for animation, movies, advertising, publishing, video games etc. Our illustrators are highly proficient in using Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CS2 Photoshop and CorelDraw for both the Mac and PC. We use a Wacon Tablet. Occasionally we use third-party Illustrator plug-ins or other programs to speed up our work. For example, we use Extensis Suitcase to help us organize fonts.

Culture and illustration styles
Capturing the exact style that a customer wants is a challenge. Our d’Avid Boutiquen artists are sometimes not able to achieve some of the nuances required in a drawing. For example they may have never experienced or seen the large Pepsi cups used for a Large Pepsi at an francaise gas station so it is hard to imagine and draw a typical gas station scene. Interior colors, design and textures are not exactly the same in others countries. For this reason, some illustrations can take on a very subtle d’Avid Boutique flavor. These problems can be overcome with some reference photographs or pictures to convey the feel that you want. The influence of foreign films and TV serials has also sensitized our artists to cultural differences. At d’Avid Boutique we are constantly learning to adapt to global outsourcing.

Ready to outsource illustrations to d’Avid Boutique?
Take the next step
Simply complete the form link to contact us form on this website.

Our Customer Service team will contact you via email within 24 hours or on the next working day. Ideally we start with a sample to help us understand the project. You will get an idea of how we work and can also measure our quality. We can press on from there.

Our philosophy at d’Avid Boutique has always been competitiveness in the creative marketplace. Our competitors just don’t compare! We track your projects from inception through completion. In addition, we attend press and vendor consultations, ensuring your projects success.

d’Avid Boutique would like to hear comments about our site to provide you with the highest quality of creative services.