Presentation of Final images & Portfolio

 Most of the assignments finish with a requirement to produce 4 images.

These images should be printed on A3 card and the suggested approach is seen here below...

Using MS Word, simply insert an image into an A3 page making sure that it's centered - there are various tools in MS word that make this easy and you should aim to have all of your images in the same position on the page, all the same size, so that when they are seen together they look like a set of images.

An A4 image or slightly smaller on an A3 page looks fine. 

Note the image you import should be saved at 100 dpi and should be approx A4 in size (Do this in Photoshop).

"Insert in A3 page". 

This next approach is known as a 'Full Bleed' where the image goes off the edges of the page. 

This you would save as an A3 image at 100 dpi before importing/inserting.

Again you would try and get all of the proportions of the person similar so that they fill the pages in a similar way, with the top of the head being a consistent distance from the top of the page and space between the body and side of the page similar.

*Presenting your images in this way requires that your images are sharp and in focus.

• Don't mix and match techniques
• Make your white backgrounds crisp and white - use auto contrast in Photoshop.
• These images appear at the end of your assignment in the design sheets followed by the final evaluation, they should be designated as being "The finals" in the page preceding the images.
• A set should then be printed off on A3 Photo-copy card and these should be put in your "Portfolio"each time you finish a brief.
• Ideally your final images must be from your final shoot and should be as a result of your practical and ideas development.

Note Sometimes once you've completed the assignment/brief you feel that some of your earlier work is as good as if not better than your finals if that's the case there's no reason why that work can't be included within the main body of the design sheets just as examples of work you're really happy with. But they cannot be presented at the end with the designated finals. 

Again these other good images can and should be printed off on A3 card for inclusion in your portfolio. 

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