This is the original image of me and my friend Ellen which I was going to use on the front cover of my magazine. I chose it because of its layout, the way Ellen appears in the foreground and me slightly behind her in the background like a two piece band such as Kasabian on the cover of NME.
There were aspects of the image that I didn't want to have on the front cover such as the person in the corner and the classroom background, so I had to cut it out. This is the final image that I decided to feature on the cover of my magazine.
When I started to choose a layout for my magazine, I found that the image of two people wasn't working as effectively as an image of one person would. I therefore decided to crop myself out of the image and just used Ellen and the cover model for my magazine. This worked much better and made for a much more structured layout.
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)