Design How-To: Turn One Photo Into a Thousand Images

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Design How-To: Turn One Photo Into a Thousand Images

Well, maybe not a thousand. But you can often carve up a large photo into several smaller images. You'll stretch your photo dollar, and your images are almost guaranteed to be unified in color and texture.

Written by John McWade on May 1, 2006

Categories: How-Tos

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For almost any print or Web design project, the one-to-many technique can work. In this excerpt, John McWade demonstrates how to use the technique in a magazine spread and on a Web page. He shows you how to tell a fuller story by slicing an image and explores using the image as a basis for harmonizing versus contrasting colors in the rest of your layout.

For this web page, John sliced one photo of a chair into five images that show interesting detail.

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