Images to be published within an article can be presented in a number of ways to make them visually more attractive. This article highlights a number of examples to show you what's possible.
Insert
We start off with one of the most common ways to display images within an article. It's quick and easy to do and you can position your image either to the left or right of a paragraph. Granted it's nothing fancy but if you have a fair number of photos to include in an article this is the quickest way of showing them off. Here we resized our original photo and then uploaded it to our image file. We then opened our article, and positioned the image accordingly.
Drop-shadow
Our second example shows the same image but now with a drop-shadow behind it. You've probably seen this effect used numerous times in websites. Each photo is worked on in a separate illustrator package and then uploaded into the article. This effect works well when your background is white (like this page) as it makes the image almost jump off the page. While dark grey tends to be used for most shadow effects, nothing stops setting it another colour such as red, yellow or bright blue depending upon the impact you want to give.
Reflection
Our third example shows our original statue photo but sporting a very elegant water-like effect instead. I love this feature enormously and while it works well on small to medium-sized images it's really impressive on large ones. The reflection is created directly on the image once it's positioned in an article by using a specific proprietary software.
Polaroid
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Our fourth example is a great little feature. Not only can you set your image to tilt either left or right, but you can also set the image width and height, border colour and width plus the shadow colour and opacity. Once again, it all depends on your article content but having a few of your photos styled as polaroids could be just perfect for you. |
Popup image
Our fifth example has an action associated with it. By clicking on the small magnifying icon in the lower right-hand corner of the image, the background dims and a nice "lightbox-like" feature pops up and expands to the size of your original image. If space within your article is limited, this is a good way of using a thumbnail that open up into a much larger image within the confines of your article.