TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS

Pictures always bring an event report to life, especially if it is about holidays or travels.  Most people use Word for event reports, and it is fairly easy to place photos in your text by using INSERT.  But when you do this, the Word software will usually compress the photos.  This keeps the size of the photo and text files down but also keeps the picture quality down as well.  So the report with its photos is easy and fairly quick to email to the web team, but you may be disappointed with the quality of your photos when they appear on the web site.

To avoid this problem, here’s what you can do :

1. Open your Word text file. 
2. Before inserting any photos, go to File -> Options -> Advanced -> Image Size & Quality, and
3. Put a check/tick next to “(1) Do not compress images in file.”

This means that any photo will retain its original properties when it appears in your file – in other words it will look quite big physically on your page of text.  In that case you will need to use the “handles” around the photo to shrink it.

Finally, if you decide to do this, be aware that your finished file will be quite large and so will be quite slow to send by email

If you decide that you don’t need high quality images, you can let the software compress it and then you can send it as a smaller file.