To Crop or not to crop

[StarPhoenix]

Management have decided that it would not be foolhardy to shovel some of the image editing for our new corporate website onto me.

What I need to do is to select suitable images from a fair collection, crop these images and then resample them.

Resampling I can do in Irfanview, but how does one select suitable images for a website and how does one determine when and where to crop them?

Thank you in anticipation.

[RevQ]

That's a matter of taste and the brief. What sort of pictures? Staff, products, facilities, general stock photos to spice the site up?

[StarPhoenix]

Staff and facilities

[GreyWolf]

how long is a piece of string?

this all depends on your design theme and on your preference.

The only advice I can give you: whatever you do, stay consistent.

[IcePick88]

Crop I say!

[Tribble]

When you crop it is to put all the focus on a part of the photo - or to eliminate that part of the photo that distracts or lowers the impact of the photo. We generally want each photo to have one focal point - one thing that catches your attention. If you look at a photo and are not sure what to look at - then it is not a good photo. Sometimes you can crop the other item out to make it a better photo - and sometimes you cannot.

You need to discard any that are not clear and crisp, boring, people's backs, blurry body parts etc.

[StarPhoenix]

Thanks

These photographs all have to be the same aspect ratio for the web page body [186x158pixies] and side bar thingy [207x145pixies]
so I pretty much ended up carving up images just to get them to meet these contraints. I can't say that many of these photographs contained anything which stood out for me....they were just.noisy/grainy pictures of....clumps of people standing in front of scenery.

I sent what I had done to the person who is supposed to be doing the website and will hopefully hear what she has to say tomorrow.

Meh.

[Tribble]

Good luck - I know you did your best with what you had.

[PureFire]

You need to discard any that are not clear and crisp, boring, people's backs, blurry body parts etc.

right... and which would those be???

[Tribble]

Lol people moving their hands when the shot was taken. Everything else is clear but the hands are blurry. Have you never seen this?