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Design How-To: Unleash the Action!
A still photo is real life on pause. Here's how to get things moving again -- and get plenty of attention for your designs.
Written by John McWade on August 30, 2006
Categories: Graphics, Graphics Image Editing, Photo Image Editing, Print, Print Design & Layout, How-Tos
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When you have a dynamic photo, the worst thing you can do is dilute its energy with type that gets in the way. In this how-to, master designer John McWade shows how to help a great picture roar off the page.
Go from the static example on the left to the evocative ad on the right.
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