7 images 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

3. Search Creative Commons

4. Image options
MorgueFile.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

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 site’s unique HEX codes

19. ColorSchemeDesigner.com
Color wheel theory and color palette options

20. ColorSchemeDesigner.com
Light page example

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