Design How-To: Working with Photos

John McWade

This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine.
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The popularity of digital cameras, coupled with their relative ease of use, makes it easier than ever to incorporate images into documents. But unless you’ve spent some time developing a photographer’s eye, chances are the snapshots you take are general scenes filled with lots of unnecessary background and filler. The central focus — and message — of the image is diffused.
But you can add impact to even the most mundane image by judicious cropping and placement in your page layout.

In this feature from “Before & After Magazine,” learn how to crop images for focus and position them for unity in a page layout.
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