How to create images that get your message across

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Presented by:

Alice Henneman, MS, RDN

Extension Educator

University of

Nebraska–Lincoln

Extension

ahenneman1@unl.edu

@alicehenneman

food.unl.edu

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Image adapted from https://flic.kr/p/pEtmm

Select images that gain the most attention1

Locate free images suitable for non-commercial use

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Use free, simple online photo-editing tools

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When Hubspot, a company devoted to

inbound marketing and attracting people

to become customers, evaluated 8,800

Facebook posts from B2B and B2C

company Facebook pages, they found

photos on Facebook generated

53 percent more likes than average post.

http://bit.ly/ITzLHt

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Ekaterina Walter, Intel’s social media

strategist, describes social media sites

like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest

as having ushered in visual marketing as

the “breakout trend for 2012.”

http://bit.ly/ITzLHt

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Articles with relevant photos get 94%

more views than articles without images!

Source: http://onforb.es/1kuNQMT

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Danger – there

is a winding

road ahead

Pinterest

What if there’s a great webpage and nothing to pin?

Upload an

image from

your device

What to do if there is no webpage photo or to put photos larger than a webpage photo on Pinterest

Add “Description”

and click “Pin it”

Click on “Edit” to

add web address

Add exact (NOT a

shortened URL) web

address by “Source”

Might practice this first by setting up a “secret” board

(found at bottom of your Pinterest page)

Then, simply

repin it to

desired board

Pinterest: Changingboard placement

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Pinterest: Changing board cover

Click on board;

then click on

“edit board”

Click on

“Change

Cover”

Scroll to find

desired cover;

“save changes”20

Twitter

Tweetdeck.com (owned by Twitter) shows images in tweets / HootSuite just added images to its dashboard for everyone

Twitter image previews: Images not sized

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Facebook

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Facebook posts

Making bigger Facebook images by uploading larger size of original and adding link

Blog

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Webpage

YouTube

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The same YouTube photo looks different on different devices

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Google+: Cover Photo

Google+

Which

posts

stand

out?

LinkedIn: Profile

Size: 400 x 400 px

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How to Take

Better

Photos

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Picmonkey / Frames / Shape Cutouts

Picmonkey / Frames / Shape Cutouts

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Close up

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Close up

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Depth

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Framing

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Framing

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Framing

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Plain or unobtrusive background

Plain or unobtrusive background

Is anything growing out of a head?

Locate free images suitable for non-commercial use

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Guidelines for using FREE images for non-commercial

• Follow individual website image citation guidelines – DO NOT use in a manner that suggests the photographer is endorsing something you are doing.

• READ CAREFULLY – not all photos in a photo gallery may be non-copyrighted!

• BEWARE of downloading “free” photos from questionable websites –some might harm your computer.

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USDA / ARS Image Galleryhttp://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos

Photo courtesy of USDA/ARS Image Gallery58

NCI Visuals Onlinehttp://visualsonline.cancer.gov

Photo source: The Website of the National Cancer Institute

(http://www.cancer.gov) / Renee Comet (Photographer)59

USDA/FSIS Be Food Safe Photo Galleryhttp://1.usa.gov/1sIrbOk

Photo Source: USDA/FSIS Be Food Safe Photo Gallery

USDA/FSIS Kitchen Companion Image Library

http://1.usa.gov/1lKFfkt

Photo Source: USDA/FSIS Kitchen Companion Image Library

CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil

Photo Source: CDC / James Gathany (photographer)

USDA SNAP-Ed Photo Galleryhttp://snap.nal.usda.gov/photo-gallery

Photo Source: USDA SNAP-Ed Connection

USDA WIC Image Galleryhttp://1.usa.gov/1lMPzZr

Photo Source: USDA WIC Image Gallery

USDA MyPlate Graphic Resources

http://1.usa.gov/Vb9zNT

National Center for Home Food Preservation

http://nchfp.uga.edu/multimedia.html

Photos: National Center for Home Food Preservation

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm

Credit: Eric Enbretson /USFWS67

USDA / ARS Image Gallery

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos

Photo courtesy of USDA / ARS Image Gallery

Natural Resources Conservation Service

http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/res/sites/PhotoGallery/index.html

Photo courtesy of USDA NRCS 69

Natural Resources Conservation Service

http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/res/sites/PhotoGallery/index.html

Photo courtesy of USDA NRCS 70

Morgue File

http://www.morguefile.com

You are allowed to copy,

distribute, transmit the work and

to adapt the work. Attribution is

not required. You are prohibited

from using this work in a stand

alone manner.

Morgue File: Search in “Free Photos”

Use free, simple online photo-editing tools

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Canva.com - start by click on graphic of preferred imageaphic

Start by clicking on Pinterest graphic

Available on

computer and iPad

Canva features

Pinterest template

Upload photo

Upload photo from computer, drag

from uploads, pull by corners until

desired size fills template

Canva features for photo editing

Click around

and try them out

Decide how much of photo will be used in the template

The part not used

is automatically

cut off and image

is perfect size

You might fill only part of template and leave space to add a text overlay in the

blank section

You can add a

background

color to the top

if desired

Add plain text or a design text

Change, type, size

or color of text

Click on drop

down arrow for

additional options

Can change text size and spacing

Use easy-to-read

font; letters can be

spaced horizontally

and vertically

Change design colors and words as desired by clicking on image

You may need to adjust size of letters slightly

Examples of waysto do Canva text overlays

More examples of Canvatext overlays

food.unl.edu

More examples of Canvatext overlays

You must own the copyright to a photo before you put your logos, etc. on it.

Check before you use your organizational logo.

Include logo / web address

You can share some ways directly from Canva – but I prefer to download the

image and then share

Canva example: New Facebook cover

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The resulting Facebook cover

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Canva: PowerPoint slide-sized photo

Cost templates have cross lines and word Canvaon them plus $ when you hover over them; have limited use –check Canvaguidelines

18 x 24 inch

poster

Canva / Search / Frames

Canva / Search / Frames

Collage

Blog post

PicMonkeyhttp://www.picmonkey.com

Fixing a “bad apple”

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Crop

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Try “Auto adjust” — Undo if you don’t like result

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Play around with “Exposure”

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Experiment with “Saturation,” “Temperature” & “Neutral picker” under “Colors”

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Trying sharpening the image: Do last

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VIVE LA DIFFÉRENCE!

Before After

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Giving yourself a makeover

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What are people “seeing”

in your work?

Photo editor: PicMonkey109

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