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Photo tips
Written by Huy on 14 March 2011

Hey everyone!

Thanks so much for the feedback so far with our prototype. There's plenty of exciting updates we're cooking up. For example, by the end of this month we will have our gorgeous new layout implemented for your usage pleasure.

For now, I just wanted to add a quick post about taking 'informative' photos for the reviews, the following are some key points to consider:

  1. Quality and artistic photos aren't as important as the information it portrays. So try to take photos that will provide information about certain 'accessibility' features of the venue. For example, a good photo of the entrance will highlight width, type of door and handle style of the door. Or other methods of entering the venue.
  2. Captioning of photos will enable us non artistic folks to read the photos better as well as it being more informative for people who use screen readers.
  3. Our current system has yet to take into consideration size limits so keep this in mind. If whipped out your SLR please resize the photos so that it's under 1mb. I tend to find iPhones as good mediums to take photos as it's more discrete, but it will also produce photos over 1mb.

Thanks again and please keep providing us your feedback!

Huy Nguyen
Founder, greatvenue

Comments

RohanM, about 1 year ago, wrote:

Actually, the site should already resize photos. Are they coming out too large?

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