Taking & Preparing Photographs for Symbol Use

(This tutorial has been reviewed and will be amended and improved upon shortly) .

You can either take your photographs with a regular camera and 'scan them in' or take them with a digital camera and bypass this. If you haven't got a digital camera and don't like the idea of scanning then you can get your 35mm and APS films put on to CD for you by the major photo-folk. If you have a digital camcorder check if this can be used as a digital camera as many newer ones can.

When you take the picture spare a thought for your pupil and remember that the whole picture is going to be shrunk down to symbol size. When I take photographs for this purpose I fill the frame with the whole head and the tops of the shoulders. Try not to have a 'busy' background and make sure there's enough light and nothing else in the photograph that might confuse the end user.

 

Wrong! If the man is the subject then he's too small and the cat takes the limelight.	Right! Well done Tina.