Integrating Photos

In many of our deliverables, we’ll integrate photography to help accentuate themes and tell better stories. Using EightShapes Unify, it’s easy to enhance your document’s appearance with a good photo or two, using the Place command or even just pasting a photograph directly into the document.

Therefore, we thought we’d share just a couple photos to give you a glimpse of how we’ve transformed pages into better platforms for storytelling. Warning: the last photo is a result of one of our interaction designers that just couldn’t help himself.

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Tips

• If you are trying to make a specific point or accentuate a particular theme, choose a powerful photo with an obvious object of focused attention, such as the dam below.
• If you’ve retained the header area as-is, with the gray line below your document’s title, logo, and such, then you can use that line as an effective upper boundary for the photo (or, for a diagram for that matter).
• Use a mood-setting photo on a chapter page, and then retain that photo as a more subtle backdrop or icon for the pages in that chapter.

Examples

Dam, for communicating mediated power

Cupcakes as a treat on a long day's walk through San Francisco

Shameless book promo, using cover shot as a chapter page

Cats! Jason Wishard, an EightShapes interaction designer, just couldn't help himself.