For almost any print or Web design project, the one-to-many technique can work. In this excerpt, John McWade demonstrates how to use the technique in a magazine spread and on a Web page. He shows you how to tell a fuller story by slicing an image and explores using the image as a basis for harmonizing versus contrasting colors in the rest of your layout.
For this web page, John sliced one photo of a chair into five images that show interesting detail.
Click the link “One to Many” to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing. This how-to is formatted for easy onscreen reading. However, if you prefer paper, see pages 13 through 18 of the PDF, which repeat the information in a format suitable for printing.
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This article was last modified on May 1, 2006
This article was first published on May 1, 2006
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