Choosing Photos

Choosing photos Try to find the image that helps the reader the most understand the news. Your photog will likely provide you with either a photo or a choice. news You make sure image size isn’t too small to do any good (or too large, don’t use image just to fill up space) when you crop/designsmallgood

If your photo is your dominant piece of art and it is horizontal, plan to run it at least 3 columns wide. If your dominant photo is vertical, run it as least two-three columns wide. Vertical photos more than three columns wide take up massive amounts of space and are rarely used except in special layouts.

If the photo is to be used as secondary art – that is the second or third photo on the page – it should be large enough to make visual sense but not so large that it competes with the dominant photo for the viewer’s eye. If the secondary photo is horizontal, size it for two columns. Larger will work only if the dominant photo is four or five columns wide. If a secondary photo is vertical, try it in one or two columns. (Mug shots often used to draw reader into story. Can be small, even ¾ inch by 1 inch.)

Standalone photos Instead of a story, you use a visual and a longer cutline.visual

Packaging photos Can have more than one photo for a story. Make sure one is more dominant than the other. Try for variety (i.e. not same distance, etc.) And do it well.storywell

Mugshots Use your judgment. Good to break up text. Good if people might want to know what someone looks like. Don’t overdo it.overdo

Online Photos likely will be a size to match a templatetemplate

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Photo illustrations They need to be done well. This was not.This