7 image tips to enhance your blog

COM 200 November 2013

7 image tips to enhance your blog

Sourcing options- original images

Tip 1: take your own images

Tip 1: make your own imagesTip 1: make your own images

Search Creative Commons

Image optionsMorgueFile.com a favorite site. It has a small but good collection of images I’m

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 can’t. 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

Blog titles and logosStudent example

Tip 3: create a more professional logo

Blog titles and logos

Student example

Blog titles and logos

Professional example

Blog titles and logos

Professional example

Blog titles and logos

Professional example

Blog titles and logos

Image strategies Large photos to break up text and enhance

readability

Tip 4: use large images to break up your text

Image strategies

Group images together to tell a story

Tip 5: group images together

Image strategies

Group images to enhance your narrative

PicStitch.com

Group images to tell a story

Create a color palette

Visit DesignSeeds.com for palette inspiration

Tip 6: create a color scheme for your site

SumoPaint.com

A free web app for image editing - eyedropper tool

(Use the eyedropper tool)

HEX Codes

ColorPicker.com

Know your site’s unique HEX codes

ColorSchemeDesigner.com

Color wheel theory and color palette options

ColorSchemeDesigner.com

Light page example

QuickTime™ and aGIF decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Cinemagraphs

Add movement to images

Tip 7: create moving images to enhance your story

Animated GIF apps

Adding movement to images