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Photo Management Choosing Photos that “Fit”. Photo Management. What’s Coming Up in this Presentation. Choosing the Right Photo to Fit Your Design and Content.. Making Sure Your Photo Fits - Resizing V. Resampling .. See the Process from Start to Finish.. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Photo Management
Choosing Photos that “Fit”.
Photo Management
• Choosing the Right Photo to Fit Your Design and Content..
• Making Sure Your Photo Fits - Resizing V. Resampling..
• See the Process from Start to Finish..
• Free Alternatives to Photoshop..
What’s Coming Up in this Presentation
Choosing the right photograph..
• Why would I choose one photo over another?
• Think of your audience. Are your images clear? Captivating?
• Can you tell what the subject is doing?
• Does the image tell a story?
• The impact of photo colors on the rest of your page
To Fit your Design and Content
Choosing the right photograph..
What are the benefitsof professional photos?
To Fit your Design and Content
Choosing the right photograph..
Better EquipmentA true professional invests in their business, and theirimages will reflect the quality of that investment.
Good equipment provides depth of field and wide angle framing of images that you simply can’t get on today’s pocket cameras
To Fit your Design and Content
Choosing the right photograph..
Quality Control• Higher resolution photos
• Better focus
• Elimination of distracting backgrounds
• Wider selection of images
To Fit your Design and Content
Choosing the right photograph..
ExperienceMaking subjects feel at ease
Meeting deadlines and working in unexpected conditions or situations
Providing new ideas to enhance the topic/subject
To Fit your Design and Content
Making sure your photo fits..
File size is determined by the number of pixels in the image. Resolution is measured by the number of pixels in an inch or ppi.
File Size and Resolution.
100 x 100 pixelsat 75 ppi
100 x 100 pixels at 25 ppi
PRINTING
Making sure your photo fits..
On the web images will display at either 72 or 96 ppi which is standard for monitors. Therefore the dimensions on screen are greatly impacted Not by resolution but by how many pixels make up the image.
Dimensions and File Size on the Web
100 x 100 pixels at 75 ppi100 x 100 pixels at 25 ppi
For WEB
Sizing Images in Photoshop
• How many pixels make up the image when you start.
• Crop first, it decreases file size without reducing quality.
• Layers will increase file size without changing dimensions.
• Sometimes Resampling is good and sometimes it is not.
• How modifying Image size affects the size and quality.
• Keep your web page dimensions in mind when sizing.
Things to consider when sizing for web.
Let’s see how Photoshop does it ...
Let’s see how it is done..
• Using the finalsite demo/training web site, we will take a look at how to crop, resize and drop photos into templates.
• These templates are created to be ready for web use once flattened, saved and uploaded.
• We will review banners and finding/replacing images
How to add a photo to your site.
I can’t afford Photoshop..
• Finalsite Image editor.
• Gimp - (http://www.gimp.org)
• Picasa - (http://picasa.google.com/)
Free alternatives to expensive programs.