USF Don mascot with logo  USF Website Photography Best Practices
Below are several suggestions related to preparing images for
use on your website. These are general guidelines that are
appropriate for any image on the USF site, whether in banner
boxes or body content areas. Many more tips on Photoshop
techniques for improving the quality of your images can found on
our blog.  There are a number of standard images available for
use on your site in the Ektron library in the folder labeled:
images/approved. These stock USF photos are divided into sizes
based on the standard banner boxes. If you have any questions or
need help processing images, please contact Tom Henke in WC&S at
or x2074.  1. Crop to Subject  Frequently, what we respond to in
a photograph is a small part of the overall image. With the web,
we are always trying to create graphics with file sizes that are
as small as possible. As part of that reduction process it is
important to remove from the image anything that is drawing
attention away from