Lesson 17

CROPPING

In this lesson, we learnt about cropping. Cropping can change a picture significantly. A picture with a certain meaning can have a different meaning to it after it has been cropped. For example, 

 

With cropping, we can also give more focus. For example, this boy's happiness can be seen more obviously when cropped to have his face cover more of the picture:

We were also introduced to the editorial grid systems and some simple types of grids such as the manuscript grid, column grid and modular grid. These grid are sweet and simple, good for newsletters or pages with lots of text involved, though it might get boring for readers. I don't think that these grids will be perfect for attention-grabbing pages such as those in magazine, but for educational books or pages, these grids should be able to pull it off with appropriate placement of the headline, text, etc, perhaps with an addition of a picture or two. 

Here is an example of the manuscript grid being use for informative or educational purposes:

Thank you!