The all-important photo
I have seen many wedding websites – some are stunning and some are ghastly, but alas, beauty is in the eye of the beholder so who am I to judge! Wedding websites by their very nature are personal creations, perhaps at times using the photograph that is sentimental rather than perfectly taken. Understandable, but not always pleasing to the eye that cannot fathom the sentiment. So what makes the perfect wedding website?
Probably the most striking difference I’ve seen is in the quality of the photos used on wedding websites. At the one extreme we have the big budget weddings, where a big chunk of the big budget is splashed out in taking pre-wedding photographs specifically for use on the wedding website. These wedding websites have an instant wow-factor as the glossy images jump out of the screen and remain imprinted in the mind alongside thoughts of how stunning the couple is! The rich colours and perfect focus, contrast and exposure seem to blend into any background on any wedding website page.
In stark contrast, we have the last-minuters. These couples, bless them, jump into and publish their wedding website at the very last minute. The cobbling together of the wedding website is a hurried and stressful affair and the result is obvious and unavoidable. The groom in a bright yellow T-shirt with the car park back-drop sticks in my mind. Blend this into a trendy, Flash wedding website webpage and the result isn’t pretty. Some customized wedding website providers, like weddingorg.com may kindly cut the groom out of the car-park and place him on an idyllic tropical beach – perhaps in a T-shirt that is no longer yellow. However, most self-design wedding websites insist the designer take full responsibility for his or her creation.
Photo “size” can also range from 50KB to 12MB – the former closely resembling a mess of pixels morphing into an
undiscernible image and the latter having too many pixels to offer a
wedding website that loads into a browser within a life time. The “perfect” photo is one that has been reduced to perfectly fit the window that frames it in the
wedding website. Most photo editing software permits the resizing of photos, but if I had to pick the best, I would definitely go for
Photoshop. Again the ever-helpful customized
wedding website provider, like
weddingorg.com, would use the very best.
Wedmedo.com offers up the exact dimensions for every photo used on its
Flash wedding websites – for a list of these please visit this link –
wedding website photo dimensions.
Lastly and for the beauty conscious definitely not least, photos can be touched up using photo editing software. Looking a bit tired and want to banish those wrinkles from under the eyes? Does your complexion in the photo need a bit of color? Is the color and exposure balance in the photo plain and simply just wrong? Does the red-eye make you look a little menacing? Do your arms look a little too wide at the top? If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions and indeed to any other observed imperfection, then photo editing software is there to help. We have had loads of touch up requests in our customized wedding website service – and most are doable.
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