Before&After: Use Photos in Skinny Spaces
Skinny spaces are everywhere—web banners, newsletter nameplates, single-column ads—but photos come from our cameras in fat, 6" x 4" proportions, same as always. How do you get the two together?...
Skinny spaces are everywhere—web banners, newsletter nameplates, single-column ads—but photos come from our cameras in fat, 6″ x 4″ proportions, same as always. How do you get the two together? Here are three techniques. This 13-page article from issue 39 of Before&After Magazine teaches you to fit a photo into a very skinny space.

Our eyes process visual data so fast that a mere sliver of an image is all it takes to convey what you need.

© John McWade/Before & After Magazine, courtesy of Gaye Anne McWade.
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