Making the most of mug shots

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Techniques are offered on how to add visual interest to a boring snapshot of someone who may not be very photogenic in the first place. In general, when grouping two or more mug shots, it is a good idea to use similar sizing and cropping. The pictures should all be cropped with equal proportions; editorial uniformity is created if all the pictures have the same amount of head and shoulders showing, and if they are sized so all the heads have the same dimensions. Pictures can be clustered, and purposely made of unequal size, but the look has to be obvious in order to avoid the unequal sizes looking like a mistake. Other suggestions include removing the background to produce a silhouette, creating differently shaped frames around the images, setting photos at an angle, using two pictures of the same person, and using halftone and photographic effects available in layout programs. Additional options are available from image manipulation software.

Image processing, Photography, Computer graphics, Editing, Image Enhancement

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Go buy the book; a select guide to the best books for desktop publishers and designers

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A guide to the best books for desktop publishers and designers is presented. The Book of the Year vote goes to Summer Stone's 'On Stone: The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer,' $34.95. The book offers a solid combination of fine design, good writing and useful information, and provides universal lessons about typography and design while using examples exclusively from the Stone type family. 'Roger Black's Desktop Design Power,' $24.95, was one of the most broadly useful books published in 1991. Despite its focus on magazines, it is appropriate for other kinds of publications and covers subjects from type, using color and getting the reader's attention to case histories of desktop designs. Other books are discussed.

Books, Publishing industry, Achievements and awards, Desktop publishing, Graphic arts, Book, On Stone: The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer (Book), Roger Black's Desktop Design Power (Book), Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Solving Graphic Problems (Book)

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Giving a special edge to your subject

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In addition to being used to keep visual order and organization, borders can be used decoratively to offset the style of the elements on a page. Borders can also be integrated into the work itself in a subtle manner. Borders can bring visual interest to bland pages, enhance poor quality photographs, establish relative importance of items on a page, borders can be used to unify a page by tying various elements together, establish variety by separating page elements and soften the rigidity of grid-like layouts. Various borders can be made from any pattern available on the menu, or can be created from thematic graphics, so borders are not limited to those included in stock desktop publishing software packages.

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