7 image tips to enhance your blog
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This document provides 7 tips for enhancing blogs with images: 1) Take your own images and source from sites like MorgueFile and Flickr ensuring proper licensing. 2) Find images in the public domain. 3) Create a professional logo. 4) Use large images to break up text for readability. 5) Group images together to tell a story. 6) Create a consistent color scheme using tools like DesignSeeds, SumoPaint, and ColorPicker. 7) Create moving images like cinemagraphs or animated GIFs to enhance stories.
7 image tips to enhance your blog
- 1. 7 image tips to enhance your blog COM 200 November 2013
- 2. Tip 1: take your own images Tip 1: make your own images Tip 1: make your own images Sourcing options- original images
- 4. Image options MorgueFile.com a favorite site. It has a small but good collection of images Im loving using that do not require any attribution. The best kind. Flickr.com always has tons of images available. However, you must read the individual terms of each photographer to figure out which you can use, and which you cant. Go for the Creative Commons licenses to sort them. If you do use any image, link back. Bigfoto.com offers pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Pacific. Each main category has subcategories, for instance aviation, which allows you to choose from pictures in a certain theme. Fotogenika.net Free if you plan to use for personal, educational, and nonprofit use. FreeDigitalPhotos.net has more than 2000 free images you can use in both commercial and noncommercial work. You cannot sell, redistribute, or claim these images as your own. As with most of the sources on this list, just browse by category or search for exactly what you need. Tip 2: find images within the public domain
- 5. Tip 3: create a more professional logo Blog titles and logos Student example
- 6. Blog titles and logos Student example
- 7. Blog titles and logos Professional example
- 8. Blog titles and logos Professional example
- 9. Blog titles and logos Professional example
- 10. Blog titles and logos
- 11. Tip 4: use large images to break up your text Image strategies Large photos to break up text and enhance readability
- 12. Tip 5: group images together Image strategies Group images together to tell a story
- 13. Image strategies Group images to enhance your narrative
- 14. PicStitch.com Group images to tell a story
- 15. Tip 6: create a color scheme for your site Create a color palette Visit DesignSeeds.com for palette inspiration
- 16. (Use the eyedropper tool) SumoPaint.com A free web app for image editing - eyedropper tool
- 17. HEX Codes
- 18. ColorPicker.com Know your sites unique HEX codes
- 19. ColorSchemeDesigner.com Color wheel theory and color palette options
- 21. Tip 7: create moving images to enhance your story QuickTime and a GIF decompressor are needed to see this picture. Cinemagraphs Add movement to images
- 22. Animated GIF apps Adding movement to images