[nate22]

I have the problem of undercharging and am trying not to do that for the sake of the whole Flash community!! So, help me estimate this project (or let me know if there is a website with good guidelines on this?)

I have created a Flash gallery from 12 high resolution files, which involved some resizing and color retouching issues. The gallery images were all package design shots assembled in Illustrator. A simple headline was created in illustrator with a placed/linked 300 dpi Photoshop file. So, I had to copy from a CD and open all these huge psd files, resize them, take FPO screenshots of the illustrator comps, place those FPOs into Flash and then replace them with the resized retouched versions and finally copy and paste the type from illustrator to Flash-- we're talking about simple headlines, but the final product needed to look exactly like the illustrator comps, so I placed the FPO, then pasted the type in from Illustrator and then imported the resized/retouched versions and replaced the FPO screenshots.

Then, I created the Flash gallery with:
• 1 master file, 12 buttons
• 1 external preloader
• 12 external movies containing the 12 package comps to link to

Then, they decided to change 1 package... so I had to
• resize and retouch 1 more image
• replace 1 external swf
• update the buttons on the master.swf.

Since the new package had a different background color...
• I had to change 5 buttons around, which was kind of a trial and error process.... took about 30 minutes in total.

I then created a
• CSS-HTML web page (to hold the gallery).

And now they use this as their main website (it is the only page on their site and they will use it to get new clients).

All together, the project took about 12 hours.

What is a good charge for this?