How to get a new visual effect by drawing

The author went to Venice to play a circle back, in his play, but also took a lot of photos, now he through these photos to share with us, in the design of how to cut the image, to get a new visual effect. Small knowledge, but the effect is very good, to learn it.

It was a weather-beaten wall, and there seemed to be no bright spot. But if you catch those details, it's going to be different.

Before cropping and after cropping

In raw format, I'll zoom in and then crop to the right image, by contrast, is it a lot better?

Cutting in the work

These are my design work through the cutting to get a very different effect of examples, students can learn.

Fitness Fusion

Fitness Fusion is an interesting fitness organization, and when I redesign the site for them, I need to pick a visually compelling banner from 600+ 's photos.

It seems that the left image is not the right person, but when I rotate him counterclockwise 90 degrees, the horizontal flip, with the "find the coach" text, it becomes a strong impact banner.

I choose the screenshot reason:

The direction of the light

The eyes that are focused and stand for strength

Combining the smiley face on the left and the main text, the atmosphere of the website is cordial, professional, hardworking and simple, and quite interesting.

This is another banner, by cutting, we gain more power, intimacy, and highlight the logo of the gym on the bracelet.

Stockbridge School of Agriculture

The challenges of preparing the home page for the University of Massachusetts are:

A culture suitable for the university

To attract visitors.

The technical challenge is to make the image perfect for different sizes of monitors, where we took a lot of photos and picked out seven groups, as follows:

Then we choose one as the test:

We made different cuts in Photoshop, which is the effect of exploration:

This is the handset side and the desktop display interface:

Pvix

This is an image that tries to convey the family, positive, positive energy, etc.

This is the first time I tried to cut, but the effect is not, no space left for the text.

For the second attempt, I added a blue space to the left of it:

Final results:

Parenting blog post

I want to take my son's photo as a banner of my blog, but I can see that in this photo, my son is too young for you to notice his details.

After cropping:

Much better.

Summarize:

We often hear a word, a picture wins thousand words. But how do you break out the skills of a picture?

1) a good RAW image

Have the opportunity to borrow a professional camera with your partner to learn photography. If there is no way, to the Professional gallery: Designer Web site navigation inside the purchase of professional photographer's pictures can also.

2 Excellent post-production ability, including color adjustment and cutting.

3) suitable placement position. The right location, the picture will help you to tell the story.

To develop these abilities, you can learn step-by-step through the books provided in the designer's complete self-study guide.